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Jeffrey Kendall

U.S. aid to spread broadband access criticized | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views

www.dispatch.com/...adband-access-criticized_.html

broadband technology rural access rural broadband

shared by Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
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      Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
       
      Companies always complain about competition when it's too late and they've already missed the band wagon. These other companies have had chances even if it was small and incremental to make improvements to their broadband offerings and they chose not too. They also had an opportunity to bid for this stimulus money and unfortunately they did not receive it. If they had they would not be complaning right now.
    • Jeffrey Kendall
      Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
       
      this is similar to Googles plan to introduce gigabit service to smaller cities on a limited scale to see if the results are profitable. I will be interesting to see if these underdeveloped areas really do take advantage of this service or if it will be lost on them.
  • These local phone and cable companies fear that they will have to compete with governmentsubsidized broadband systems, paid for largely with stimulus dollars. If the taxpayer-funded networks siphon off customers by offering lower prices, private companies might be less likely to upgrade their lines, endangering jobs and undermining the stimulus plan's goals, they warn.
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  • Many existing systems, they note, lack the capacity to meet mush rooming demand for bandwidth. The new, stimulus-funded networks will provide far more-robust connections - many of them offering speeds of up to 100 megabits or even 10 gigabits per second to schools, libraries and other "anchor institutions." That's 20 to 2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable wires linking most U.S. homes.
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 13 Apr 10
     
    Government stimulus attempt to bring broadband access to rural areas that have limited or no high speed internet access.
Jeffrey Kendall

File-sharers are content industry's "largest customers" - 0 views

arstechnica.com/...ndustrys-largest-customers.ars

file sharing sharers recording industry

shared by Jeffrey Kendall on 03 May 10 - Cached
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      Jeffrey Kendall on 03 May 10
       
      proof that the artists in at least this country are still making similar revenue regardless of filesharing. The labels however are a different story.
    • Jeffrey Kendall
      Jeffrey Kendall on 03 May 10
       
      An interesting idea for record labels to make up for the lack of revenue from selling albums but if labels are taking a cut from this then should they also offer a cut rate to their album sales with the increase of profit from this sector?
  • "360 deals"
  • Jeffrey Kendall on 03 May 10
     
    Good look at how file sharing is affecting the record labels more so then the artists and how those who share files actually purchase more content then those who don't.
Burks Oakley

News: An Experiment Takes Off - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...uscmat

online education for-profit Internet online learning

shared by Burks Oakley on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Burks Oakley on 07 Oct 09
     
    Wow - great to see a new online program EXCEED its initial enrollment goals! This model is worth keeping an eye on.
  • Peter Cali on 07 Oct 09
     
    It is growing! I saw a commercial a couple of years ago that really struck me. It depicted two kids in a very modern home in Japan with their mother mulling about doing house work. Instead of playing video games on the large flatscreen on the wall, they were engaged in a math course talking to the teacher in real time. I have to believe that it is very real model that will evolve and succeed as it is at USC. Great article, thanks!
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