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New Fiber-Optic Broadband Hookups Outpace Cable
For the first time, more people around the world are signing up for fiber-optic broadband service than for cable Internet service, according to a British research firm. Fiber providers added 4.2 million customers in the first quarter and 2.5 million...Tags: Internet, Verizon Communications, Computing and Information Technology
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We should look to Amsterdam for a glimpse of our future transit plans
So Americans bedeviled by $4-plus-a-gallon gas want more transportation choices? They have no idea of what real choices are. For a taste of our necessary future — driven by rapid energy cost inflation and climate emergencies — check the...Tags: Vehicles, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Public Transportation, Railway Transportation, Transportation
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Text messages seen as way to fight crime
The Associated PressPolice in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs — to identify criminals using text messages. Police hope the idea...Tags: Law Enforcement, Juvenile Delinquency, Texas, New Hampshire, Tampa
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Growth in faster Internet surprises
With a miserable economy - and a gut feeling that nearly everyone who really wants high-speed Internet access and can afford it probably has it by now - I would have predicted slow growth or none at all this year in that market. Not so. Some 55 percent...Tags: Internet, Networking, AT&T Corp., Television Industry, Personal Income
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Persistence key to finding sympathetic ear at cell companies
Chicago Tribune reporterJudging by the number of e-mails that jammed the Problem Solver's mailbox over the past week, many of you feel Donna Lee Spray's cell-phone induced pain. Spray was featured in last Wednesday's What's Your Problem? after T-Mobile pulled the plug on her...Tags: Consumers, Chicago, Cell Phones, Iowa, Contracts
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Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs
From the Associated PressPolice in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs -- to identify criminals using text messages. Police hope the idea...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Law Enforcement, Texas, New Hampshire, Tampa
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The call of 'Into the Wild'
Associated PressHEALY, Alaska — Ron Alexander has long been intrigued with the true story of a young idealist who met his death in Alaska's unyielding wilderness in 1992. The film adaptation of the book "Into the Wild" only cemented the mystique for Alexander...Tags: Jim Morrison, Movies, Virginia, Alaska, Health and Safety at School
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Money woes create a divide among Internet users
Sentinel Staff WriterAs online video and bandwidth-hogging sites and services, such as YouTube and iTunes, continue to grow in popularity, the divide between dial-up and high-speed Internet users is getting more pronounced. A new survey suggests that with high gas prices...Tags: Internet, National or Ethnic Minorities, Television Industry, Computing and Information Technology, People
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Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs
Associated PressPolice in the 1970s urged citizens to ``drop a dime'' in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs -- to identify criminals using text messages. Police hope the idea...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Law Enforcement, Texas, New Hampshire, Tampa
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Report: Fiber Internet growth overtakes cable
AP Technology WriterFor the first time, more people around the world are signing up for fiber-optic broadband service than for cable Internet service, according to a British research firm. Fiber providers added 4.2 million customers in the first quarter, while 2.5 million...Tags: Internet, Verizon Communications, Computing and Information Technology
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