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onnected Nation recently announced an upgrade to their mapping application that's being used in S. Carolina. There's another story, though. One state resident saw on the map that his home had AT&T DSL service. But when Joe Roget called the company, "They said they had no idea what I was talking about and that whatever map data I was looking at was totally wrong," Roget reports to Stop the Cap! "The operator was frank with me, saying it was highly unlikely I would ever receive DSL from AT&T and the company was really not expanding DSL access any longer."

t the TEDMed conference, Xerox unveiled the results of health care research in mobile monitoring and natural-language processing. At the TEDMed conference in Washington, D.C, Xerox announced research efforts aimed at digitizing patient information and using natural-language technology to collect unstructured medical data and convert it into formats that can be read by computer applications.

T oday's global economy is forcing executives, governments and consumers  to adopt a new way of thinking. The financial crisis and deep recession that  ended in 2010 caused a seismic shift that has reshaped the global business  landscape. No longer can companies rely on credit-fuelled domestic markets  for growth. Indeed, the need for households, banks and governments to regain  their balance will dampen growth opportunities in many advanced economies.  Instead, we are seeing the emergence of what has been called a "new normal  economy" characterised by several key factors discussed below. 

"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is working to connect rural households to broadband through the Connect America Fund. The Fund provides capital to private sector companies in order to help shoulder the cost of building out broadband networks to those homes. However, two of the largest service providers have opted out of the the free money saying that they would prefer to focus their attention elsewhere. One provider, Frontier Communications is stepping up to the plate citing significant business value in bringing these households online, a view which raises more questions about whether AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are creating artificial network scarcity in order to provide a better picture for shareholders at the expense of American competitiveness."

"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more

Networks are not in danger of running out of capacity just yet. Carriers have spent large sums buying up rights to the radio spectrum, and they're being creative about ways to squeeze more out of what they already have. (Exact speeds vary, but an LTE connection is typically 10 times faster than one provided by a 3G network.) The federal government licenses spectrum space, and wireless carriers and other companies have for many years bought up and hoarded licenses, anticipating the need to expand. But the largely unforeseen explosion in demand for wireless bandwidth, driven by the appearance of tablets and smart phones, has made it more urgent to ensure a supply for future use.  AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel says network traffic and the company's spectrum portfolio affect the kind of service that users receive in different areas. "We will continue to invest and innovate to make the best, most efficient use of available spectrum across our network," he says.

While Verizon and AT&T have increasingly given up on their legacy landline networks, Bell Canada is showing that investment in their network to keep up with the times can make all the difference.

"A group of 16 engineers named "Group T" has unveiled a racing car "Areion." The group is competing in Formula Student 2012 challenge, and the car it has unveiled is world's first 3D printed race car. The Areion is not fully 3D printed but most of it is. It was tested on Hockenheim race circuit and went from zero to 100km/h in just four seconds. The maximum speed achieved by the car on the same circuit was 141km/h. The car is eco friendly as well as a motivation for innovative technology. Cutting-edge technologies bestowed on the environmentally friendly race car include an electric drive train, bio-composite materials and 3D printing on a big scale with Materialise."

During April-to-June 2012, AT&T & Verizon lost 94,000 broadband subscribers in total. While they continue to sign up people for fiber and higher speed broadband, they are losing DSL subscribers really fast which is good news for cable broadband companies.

"uring April-to-June 2012, AT&T & Verizon lost 94,000 broadband subscribers in total. While they continue to sign up people for fiber and higher speed broadband, they are losing DSL subscribers really fast which is good news for cable broadband companies."

"Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking a page from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's playbook by notifying the SEC that he will not sell any of his shares in the social network for at least 12 months. This announcement is an attempt to put a floor on the decline of Facebook's stock, in what is essentially a passive, one year stock buyback which targets the Nov. 14 lockup expiration, when 1.2 billion new shares were scheduled to come to market."