High Speed Internet Factsheet

According to officials at Verizon, the surf is now up in nine more rural Western Massachusetts communities. Verizon has been expanding its high-speed Internet service into two dozen communities in Western Massachusetts that otherwise have no access More Here

Verizon Launches Broadband Service in More New Communities. BLANDFORD, Mass. – Consumers and businesses in nine more western Massachusetts communities now have access to the Internet – at rocket speeds powered by Verizon. Starting Wednesday (Aug. 27 More Here

In the latest move to rein in the heaviest users of the Internet, Comcast Corp. announced a cap on the amount of data its customers can download. Starting Oct. 1, residential high-speed Internet customers will be limited to 250 gigabytes of traffic More Here

Fans Vote via Text Messages; Only College Football Honor Determined by Fan Voting ATLANTA , Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Four nominees for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week award have been announced after the first week of college football More Here

Comcast Corp. says Internet users who download and upload the equivalent of 50 million e-mails a month could lose their Internet access. Those obsessive Internet customers will first be asked in a warning phone call to dial it back. If that does not Cont

Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable operator, said subscribers whose use of the Internet exceeds 250 gigabytes of data a month may get a warning call and could lose their service. Customers who breach the threshold — enough to send 50 million e Cont

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. , Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in Hartford County , Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site. The new site increases high-speed wireless data coverage Cont

High Speed Internet Service Offers Great Value With Reliable Downstream Speeds of up to 7 Megabits per Second. TAMPA, Fla. – Qualifying consumers in nearly 40 Florida communities now have a new broadband option from Verizon that more than doubles the Cont

Providing free wireless internet access throughout a metropolitan area sounds simple – but the reality of rolling out such a service takes a lot of finesse, says Quocirca’s Rob Bamforth. With all the recent announcements about cities and towns More Here

A wireless network lets you and others in your household connect to the Internet from any room in the house. A wireless router is the heart of a wireless network. Setup procedures for wireless routers vary from product to product, but they’re More Here

Orb Networks, Inc. is a team of entrepreneurial, talented and innovative people who are driven to fulfill the promise of the Internet.Orb has developed an award winning service that combines the use of an internet media portal and a proprietary More Here

Logitech on Thursday turned its attention to wireless audio courtesy of both a wholly independent Internet radio and speakers built just for notebooks. One of the first fruits of Logitech’s buyout of Squeezebox, the Squeezebox Boom can pull and play More Here

by Stacey Higginbotham Many venture firms shy away from investing in semiconductor startups because of the inordinately high cost and risk involved relative to other sectors, but some firms are still determinedly pursuing silicon by backing wireless More Here

From USA TODAY’s Airport Check-in column: ” Mineta San Jose International launched free wireless Internet service last week. It’s available in Terminals A and C. The airport says the service will also be available in the new North Concourse and More Here

Wi-Fi TV Inc. (Pink Sheets:WIFT), www.Wi-FiTV.com, announced today that it is bringing Wi-Fi TV’s over 500 Internet TV stations, including an increasing number of proprietary stations, to a new viewing frontier. Thanks to the advent of in-flight Wi Read More

Major peripheral-device manufacturer Logitech unveiled today (Thursday) the Squeezebox Boom network music player. The high-end device features an integrated amplifier, built-in high speakers of high performance just as the Swiss producer used its Read More

As we’ve been doing every Thursday for the past few weeks, today brings another update to our our airport WiFi mashup , thanks to our well-traveled tipsters. But there’s trouble in Ohio, says one Jaunted reader: DAY [Dayton International] does censor Read More

We still haven’t managed to catch up with all the airport WiFi emails we’ve gotten over the past few weeks, but we’re trying! Keep the tips coming, and we’ll keep updating our mashup . This week, we’ve got a few smaller airports but we’ve also added Read More

Canon has announced two new Wi-Fi inkjet multifunction devices, the PIXMA MP980 and the PIXMA MP620 Photo All-In-One (AIO) Printers. According to Canon, the PIXMA MP980 is the first AIO printer to include separate gray and photo-black inks, for truly Read More

DENVER, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ — FreeFi Networks ( www.freefinet.com ), a Los Angeles-based company offering content and advertiser-supported Internet access, today released figures surrounding the number of average daily Wi-Fi connections at Denver Read More

SAN FRANCISCO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Users are anxious to get their hands on the newly announced BlackBerry(R) Bold(TM) smartphone — a device that takes the BlackBerry experience to a whole new level. To complement Read More

Wi-Fi provides Internet connectivity through a wireless router to computers having a Wi-Fi enabled card installed in them. The router is connected to the Internet by means of a modem, typically a cable or DSL modem. Any user within 200 feet or so More Here

SAINT PAUL, Minn., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — In preparation for the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Sept. 1-4, Verizon Wireless has made significant upgrades to its voice and data network and opened a conveniently located Communications Store More Here

Scott Goldman uses his mobile phone to call friends and business contacts all over the world, from Britain to Australia. But the Southern California-based consultant doesn’t pay a dime in international tolls to his mobile-phone carrier, AT&T, the More Here

CALABASAS, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE — Strix Systems, a worldwide leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, today announced the deployment of Strix Hot-Zone solution for Lazydays RV SuperCenter(R), the largest single-site RV dealership in More Here

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Within the next year or two, every major U.S. airline will routinely make wireless Internet available to its domestic passengers, says the industry’s leading wireless vendor. Fran Phillips, senior vice president for airlines at More Here

South Bend Customers Can Now Enjoy Next-Generation Integrated TV, Internet, Wireless and Voice Services – All on One Bill SOUTH BEND, Ind. , Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — South Bend -area residents now have a new — and better — choice for their Cont

States on the East Coast have significantly faster median download speeds than the rest of the country, with the top states doubling or nearly tripling the national median speed, a new study claims. The study, which was conducted by affordable Cont

PHILADELPHIA — The road to advanced video, Internet and phone services is bumpy — and the bumps can be almost as big as refrigerators. As cable and phone companies race to upgrade services or offer video for the first time, they’re doing it by Cont

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) — A U.S. government official says high-speed Internet access should be available to all residents even if that means providing it free of charge. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin says the government Cont

Bell Canada will bring high-speed fibre-optic cables directly to new condos and apartment buildings between Windsor and Quebec City, the company said yesterday. The deployment is part of Bell’s plan to wire 2.4 million homes with high-speed Internet Cont

Remember when your telephone service came from one company and cable TV from another? And maybe another piped in your Internet? That’s so 2007. Today the biggest names in telecommunications and TV service including AT&T , Comcast and Verizon Cont

While the fall of energy giant Enron got all the ink in recent weeks, Excite@Home’s bankruptcy may have actually meant more to its thousands of local users. Through a contract with Comcast Corp. , Excite provides broadband Internet access to Cont

Now that the Palm Treo Pro is official we will soon start seeing reviews posted on this latest device. I should be getting an evaluation unit tomorrow or Friday, but we are limited in what can be posted until a future date. Engadget Mobile received More Here

There are lots of things in life that I can do, but a more constrained number of things that I should do. This post on Lifehacker about how to steal WiFi reminded me of one more “can but should not” item to add to the list. Apparently, someone More Here

SAMSUNG Electronics hosted the global launch of its first 8megapixel camera phone, Innov8, in Doha yesterday, in association with distributor Intertec. Also known as Samsung i8510, it boasts top-of-the-range camera technologies, surround-sound More Here

Gazing up at the towering volcano, where wisps of smoke still swirled from the lava flow unleashed at dawn, I thought, “No way.” No way was I venturing near an active volcano, let alone strapping on a harness to shoot down a half-mile cable through More Here

Kevin Ripley from Canada writes: From the specs, the Bold is a better BERRY, but will corporate buyers upgrade or will it go the way of Microsoft Vista? Obviously RIM is putting the bold front saying it’s the latest Berry is a corporate gadget, but More Here

Hello iahve aM2N32 SLI wifi ed 590 mobo from asus. I wonder if i can slap a Phenom cpu on it and 16 gb DDR2? And would PCI E video cards with the 2.0 tech be slowed down by this only tech 1 PCI E technoclogy More Here

(CNET) American Airlines passengers will now have Wi-Fi access on some flights. The airline said Wednesday that it has finally launched its in-flight Internet access service via Wi-Fi on 15 of its 767-200 airplanes. The service, called Gogo, will be Read More

Alltel Wireless today announced that it will continue expanding its wireless broadband network in 2008 with the launch of EVDO (evolution data optimized) Revision A technology in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Virginia Beach and surrounding Read More

(Corrects headline and first paragraph to read that shares are being exchanged rather than sold and deletes reference to capital being raised in paragraph three.) NEW YORK (Reuters) – Clearwire Corp said on Friday that it would issue its shareholders Read More

HOLLIS, Maine , Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in York County , Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site. The new site increases wireless voice and data coverage and Read More

American Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, said it began selling wireless Internet service Wednesday on some of its cross-country flights. American is offering access through Aircell LLC on 15 Boeing Co. 767-200 jets that make 25 daily flights Read More

MONTVALE, N.J., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Watch video on the go. Surf the wireless Internet at DSL-like speeds. Share live video during a cell phone call. AT&T announced today these services and more are available on the ultra fast third Cont

EL PASO – AT&T is now offering a two-year guaranteed monthly price for new orders of high-speed Internet services, the company announced Wednesday. The two-year price guarantee is for new high-speed Internet residential orders placed before Nov. 15 Cont

BRADFORD, Pa., BUSINESS WIRE — Verizon Wireless announced today that it has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to portions of Elk, Cameron and McKean counties including the towns of Bradford, Smethport, Port Allegany Cont

The white spaces between unused broadcast airwaves could be valuable in providing affordable, high-speed wireless internet connectivity, Google has suggested. Google said it is anticipating the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will Cont

Visitors to the Science Museum of Minnesota can solve the mystery of a disease, check out some rather dubious medical devices and even play a round of miniature golf. The Cathedral of St. Paul, perched on Cathedral Hill, is designed to look like St Cont

The white spaces between unused broadcast airwaves could be valuable in providing affordable, high-speed wireless internet connectivity, Google has suggested. Google said it is anticipating the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will Cont

In his visits to the mill towns of rural America and the Rust Belt’s faded factories, Barack Obama has drawn throngs of anxious people eager to hear from someone promising economic revival. His trip to Martinsville was no different. The city is Cont

BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet)– Google on Monday launched a website FreetheAirwaves.com, as part of a campaign to rally support for its plan to open underutilized portions of the television broadcast spectrum for high-speed wireless Internet Cont

Scaffolding, plaster and sawdust are seemingly around every corner of the historic Hotel Eutaw on Russell Street. Light fixtures dangle from ceilings and walls gape open, revealing their interiors and beckoning passersby to peer in and perhaps catch Cont

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Clarion Corporation of America, a leading manufacturer of mobile electronics, today announced the introduction of ClarionMiND, Clarion’s next generation Mobile Internet Navigation Device. The ClarionMiND Cont

Telx, the Interconnection Company, announces it has leased a custom data center suite to iland Internet Solutions at 8435 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. iland is a leading global provider of VMware VI Enterprise solutions, Managed Colocation and High Cont