Google’s Kansas City broadband project is designed to shame the top US cable and telecom giants. Why is the U.S. ranked 28th …
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Be Broad-minded in How You Use Broadband
Few entrepreneurs would consider running their company without high-speed broadband Internet. Yet many small business owners may be missing opportunities to use broadband to boost business efficiency and lower their costs, according to a report from the Internet Innovation Alliance and the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.
Shopping Spree: 10 Companies Doing Surprisingly Good Business
There are certain retailers and service providers that everyone knows are doing well in terms of sales. When Apple posts impressive sales figures, no one is surprised. Given the still shaky state of the economy, it’s also …
Google Takes Another Experimental Step Toward Delivering TV
Google, which was founded by two graduate students, has always made research a top priority. Now it appears that the company is turning a metropolitan area in the Midwest into its latest laboratory. The tech giant, which is …
Why the Wireless Spectrum Deal is a Win for Consumers and Industry
Who says Congress never gets anything done? Pressed into action by the ongoing budget crunch, lawmakers have agreed to let the federal government raise as much as $25 billion by auctioning off valuable wireless spectrum, …
Will Google’s Insanely-Fast Kansas City Network Shame U.S. ISPs?
Google’s highly-anticipated plan to build an ultra-fast city broadband network kicked into gear Monday with the search giant’s announcement that it will begin laying miles of fiber-optic cable across Kansas City, Kansas and …
246 Money Tips: When to Haggle, How to Extend Food’s Lifespan, Why Being Old Has Its Benefits, and More
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Broadband: The Exception to the Rule that Technology Gets Cheaper the Longer It’s Around
Call it the early adopter penalty: New technology is introduced at high prices, which drop rapidly as the goods spread from an exclusive to mass audience, become cheaper to produce, and eventually go completely mainstream. This price drop has reliably occurred to everything from portable DVD players to hi-def TVs, from iPods to iPhones …
