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Verizon Plans LTE In Two Cities for 2009

Verizon Plans LTE In Two Cities for 2009

Analog television hasn’t even been fully switched off in order to make room for new wireless services, and already Verizon Wireless has announced it plans to roll out mobile broadband services based on LTE technology in the United States beginning this year. The so-called 4G services will first launch as mobile connectivity for notebook computer users in two U.S. cities during 2009, and Verizon expects to expand that footprint to 25 to 30 U.S. cities during 2010. Verizon WIreless expects smartphones and other mobile devices using LTE technology will begin to reach U.S. consumers by 2011.

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Comcast Expands 50 Mbps Wideband Service

Earlier this year, cable operator Comcast began offering 50 Mbps Internet service to customers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and claimed that the new “wideband” offering would be available throughout its entire service area by the year 2010. Now the company is making its first steps in that direction, announcing an expansion of 50 Mbps service in selected markets.

According to Comcast, 50 Mbps service will go online part of New England (including the Boston metro area and southern New Hampshire), parts of Philadelphia, and New Jersey in the next few weeks. Over the next several months, Comcast says the service should be available in 10 major markets and be available to nearly 10 million homes and businesses.  Read more...

Survey Ranks U.S. Cities with Home Networks

Survey Ranks U.S. Cities with Home Networks

A new market research study from MultiMedia Intelligence ranks U.S. cities on the basis of how wide their residents have adopted in-home networking during 2007. Perhaps not surprisingly, San Francisco topped the survey results, with some 28 percent of households having adopted home networking technologies. San Francisco was closely followed by Miami at 27 percent, and Los Angeles at 24 percent.

If you’re wondering why other well-known tech hubs didn’t even make the list, the survey apparently examined only top "designated marketing areas," a list of fourteen U.S. cities that omits places like Seattle and Austin as well as central cities like Denver, St. Louis, and Minneapolis.

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Best Buy Planning Airport Gadget Kiosks

Best Buy Planning Airport Gadget Kiosks

Electronics retailer Best Buy has announced a partnership with Zoomsystems to introduce self-serve gadget kiosks in a handful of major U.S. airports. Described as a pilot program, the kiosks will operate under the name “Best Buy Express” and carry small electronics items like portable storage devices and memory cards, chargers, headphones, travel adapters, gaming devices, digital cameras, and cell phone and computer accessories.

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Comcast: 100 Mbps Internet Coming by 2010

Comcast: 100 Mbps Internet Coming by 2010

Speaking at the Merril Lynch U.S. Media Conference in London, Comcast senior VP of investor relations Marlene Dooner said the company plans to offer cable Internet customers bandwidth up to 100 Mbps in most of its markets by early 2010—and some 20 percent of its markets may have the service by the end of 2008. In a not-unrelated forecast, Dooner also says Comcast expects to have converted analog television channels to digital in most of its markets by 2010—enabling the company to reclaim bandwidth currently used by those video signals—and expects 20 percent of its markets converted to digital by the end of 2008.

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EarthLink Terminates Philadelphia Wi-Fi

Struggling ISP and broadband provider EarthLink has announced that it is pulling the plug on Philadelphia’s Wi-Fi network as of June 12, 2008. The move marks the latest chapter in EarthLink’s rapid exit from the never-really-materialized municipal Wi-Fi arena, in which metropolitan areas attempted to set up various forms of Wi-Fi Internet access for residents: late last year, EarthLink announced it was cutting funding for municipal Wi-Fi projects, preferring to take the hits for breaking contracts than continue to pour money into the projects. Previously, it had backed out of Wi-Fi networks in San Francisco and Houston.  Read more...

Qwest Intros 20 Mbps DSL

Qwest Intros 20 Mbps DSL

Regional telecommunications operator Qwest announced today that it is introducing 12 and 20 Mbps DSL service in 23 of its top markets, Dubbed Qwest Titanium and Qwest Quantum, respectively, the company expects the services to be available to over 2 million customers by the end of 2008.

The 20 Mbps service is currently the fastest DSL service available from a major U.S. telephone operator.

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Comcast Introduces 50 Mbps Internet Service

Comcast Introduces 50 Mbps Internet Service

Cable operator Comcast has begun offering 50 Mbps broadband Internet service in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and says it plans to introduce the new high-speed offering throughout its entire service area by the year 2010. Comcast is pricing the new service at $149.99 per month for residential service, which is roughly triple the price of Comcast’s previous highest-bandwidth offering. Business customers will pay $199.95 a month. Although the new service offers download speeds of up to 50 Mbps, uploads on the service are capped at a comparatively slow 5 Mbps

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Digital Wanted Posters Catch Fugitives

According to a CNN story, the wanted poster has returned. Once a feature of American life (we’ve all seen those old Westerns), it had been pretty much limitedto post offices in recent years.   But in the South, they’re being used to help catch criminals. Although there aren’t too many digital billboards – only around 500 out of atotal of 450,000 billboards, according to the industry – they’ve proved very useful, and very quick to react.   "We can be up in 15 minutes" of getting a suspect’s photo,said Troy Tatum, general manager of Baton Rouge, Louisiana based Lamar Advertising, the Baton Rouge. It provides free use of its billboards as wanted posters as apublic service.   Although used primarily for advertising, the digital billboards have proved effective so far for catching criminals. But they have another use, too, in informing motorists andothers of disasters. When a bridge collapsed in Minneapolis in August, an alert was on digital billboards within 15 minutes.

Prince Attacks Web Pirates

The rock star formerly, and now once again, known as Prince has announced a campaign against Web piracy of his music and image, and he’s brought in a sheriff to deal with it.   The diminutive Minneapolis musician has declared his intent to “reclaim the Internet” by threatening to sue YouTube, eBay, and Pirate Bay as part of a legal initiative against piracy.   He’s being represented in the move by the anti-piracy company Web Sheriff, which plans on going after videos, music downloads, bootleg merchandise and unlicensed ringtones.   “99% of the stuff online is totally unauthorised," said Web Sheriff managing director John Giuacobbi. "Someone has to start somewhere and we know this will make a serious impact – a hell of a lot of artists are going to follow suit. We have to build a 21st century model for the entertainment industry."   Prince has asked YouTube to remove around 2,000 illegally uploaded videos from the site. If not, he plans to file suit against the company – making him part of a line threatening the same, which includes, such as Viacom (which filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit in March) and the English Premier League.  

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