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Broadband to reach 77% of U.S. households by 2012, Gartner says
Broadband penetration currently reaches just over half of U.S. homes
By Brad Reed , Network World , 07/24/2008
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The United States will close its digital divide significantly within the next four years, with 77% of U.S. households having a broadband Internet subscription, according to a new Gartner study.
Just over half of U.S. households currently subscribe to broadband Internet services, but Gartner predic
They've become so used to this informal language, that they cannot write formally when they need to.
If you look at texting as a bad thing towards talking and ruining face to face communication skills, then lets take a look at that. If they're texting you, but won't talk to you face to face, maybe they haven't had very good confrontational skills to begin with, maybe that person wouldn't be talk to you at all if he/she didn't have texting as a way to talk to you.
I know this week were talking about cell phones and mobile devices and how the internet is used on our phones. I know in my discussion, me and another student were talking about texting and how it was used for the deaf originally. I just thought I'd share this article with the rest of the class.
The girl, now 18, reported to police that she received a text message last
month from an unknown person, who told her that her pictures were seen on a
website.
The woman told police she sent some indecent pictures to her boyfriend from her
cell phone in November 2009. Her phone was later stolen at a New
Her phone was later stolen at a New
Year's
party.
About 15 months later, she received the text message while she was at work,
informing her that her pictures were on the Internet.
This is an article which discusses campuses in Massachusetts that want to have emergency alerts sent to students after the attacks on the Virginia Tech campus.
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"The article examines a recent fad among U.S. politicians, use of the online social network Twitter to send public text messages."