Study Finds Broadband Access Key to Empowerment of Minority Communities

Local Council Formed to Study Impact on Detroit Area DETROIT, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Alliance for Digital Equality announced findings from its new study, Affordable Broadband: Empowering Communities Across the Digital Divide, which examines how broadband has expanded acc...

Lack of broadband hamstrings international videoconferencing

Charles Rathmann is a founding partner in communications firm Rathmann-Fronbery LLC . He wrote this article based on his experiences with two clients. Wisconsin manufacturers are relying more and more on offshore operations in the Far East, creating a demand for Asian management talent in n...

FCC may restructure to tackle broadband regulation

The Federal Communications Commission is discussing how to rewrite the entire statute that governs how the agency works and how it regulates communications, said Kathleen Abernathy, an FCC Commissioner and graduate of Marquette University. Abernathy spoke to communications executives gathered at...

Brown Deer start-up wants to serve up foreign film through broadband box

Brown Deer, Wis. Anil Gupte plans to refine the niche of independent, foreign films as the U.S. improves its broadband service. He forsees a new wave of media through broadband Internet access, which reached a majority of U.S. homes mid-2004, according to a survey by NetRatings, and serves a ...

Midwest cities in fight over municipal broadband access

Did you notice the historical significance of this past Sunday? Yes, it was Mother's Day, and yes, it was the 60th anniversary of V-E Day ("Victory in Europe"), but it was also the 106th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek. He is one of the world's greatest economists. These days, while ...

Shawano to build city-wide Wi-Fi broadband wireless network

The city of Shawano, Wisconsin, plans to install a high-speed wireless network this summer for around $160,000. The city council approved the network last Wednesday, according to the Shawano Leader . Workers would install $3,000 radio transmitters at various locations to cover the whole city...

Active Air Networks Wisconsin launches broadband and wireless networks in Wisconsin

Madison, Wis. -- Active Air Networks Wisconsin said Monday it will begin delivering high speed broadband and wireless technologies to consumers and business users throughout Wisconsin communities. The network will begin deployment this month in multiple villages and towns throughout Washingto...

EthoStream will use Nanya Networks broadband products

MILWAUKEE - EthoStream LLC of Milwaukee will use the ExpressSTREAM product line of San Jose, Calif.-based Nayna Networks , the California company announced Thursday. EthoStream provides wired and wireless networking for properties ranging from hospitality and commercial to residential and c...

Proposed Illinois broadband act falls short

Last week, I was sent an announcement of pending Illinois broadband legislation (20 ILCS 3921/10), which was announced on Jan. 25. Here's its synopsis: Creates the Universal Access to Broadband Services Act. Requires the Department of Central Management Services (CMS) to create and maintain a map...

Municipal broadband in Illinois: Where are the standards?

At last weeks municipal wireless conference put on by SkyPilot Networks at Hamburger University in Oak Brook, Ill., Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn made some good statements to rally municipal attendees. He said we need to focus on high-speed Internet if we are going to make a difference. Quinn ha...

Techware revives broadband project

Hartford, Wis. - Techware , a Hartford-based technology services company, has announced plans to complete a wireless broadband network in the Washington County village of Germantown , but the company also has visions of serving other areas of the state. Techware, which provides computer cons...

National broadband policy: Let's get it right this time

Some people are talking about having a National Broadband Strategy, and that is a good issue to discuss. However, the one cautionary comment I would have is: Let's get it right this time. Several articles have popped up that discuss the need, but do not reflect some of the keys to making it ri...

Verizon expands broadband service in Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wis. - Verizon Wireless is rolling out what it calls the next generation of high-speed broadband service to customers in the Greater Milwaukee, Greater Madison, and the Fox Valley, and its promising them higher speed access to the Internet, e-mail, and corporate data. According to...

Purchase of Madison broadband network may bring improved service

Madison, Wis. - In a transaction that could mean network expansion and improved service, Madison's wireless Internet network has been purchased for an undisclosed price. Mad City Broadband was acquired by Louis Kek, the former CIO of Cellnet , according to a report in the Madison Capital T...

Techware to extend broadband wireless network to Butler

Germantown, Wis . - Techware , a broadband wireless Internet provider, has announced that it will extend its wireless broadband network into Butler, Wis. The company, which started the build out in Germantown, said it will begin to deliver broadband service that is capable of providing speeds ...

Imagine the possibilites if you had very high-speed broadband

Silly me, getting all excited about the DSL line that delivers data at 1.5M bit/sec (and up to 3M bit/sec on a good day) downstream. Foolish of me to be thrilled to get great performance from the fixed broadband wireless that reaches my coastal home. Until I heard from Samsung's GS Choi, president ...

Roll out the broadband

Madison, Wis. - The United States may rank a lowly 16 th in broadband deployment worldwide, but the state of Wisconsin has decided to be in the forefront. Following the passage of Senate Bill 483, also known as the Broadband Deployment Act, the state aims to extend what some have called the "...

Rural company works to improve broadband

Lake Geneva, Wis. - In rural Wisconsin, one company is earning their bread and cheese with recently upgraded satellite technology. IsoTropic Networks, Inc. , a global satellite communications provider, has deployed a new software application from iDirect Technologies , a satellite-based broa...

Wait `till next year OK for baseball, not broadband

There is no repeat for the White Sox this year and as for the Cubs well, let's just say the perennial "Wait until next year." What we cannot "wait until next year" for is some real action on developing a real plan for connectivity for all of Chicago. There should be as much buzz, if not mo...

Carlini beats drum for high-speed broadband

Milwaukee, Wis. - James Carlini doesn't mince words when it comes to broadband connectivity. To Carlini, president of Carlini & Associates and a columnist for WTN Media , moving from dial-up Internet service to DSL is like adding vinyl to the top of a stagecoach. Why bother when there is a...

Clarient Completes Second Tranche of Private Placement of Convertible Preferred Stock With Oak Investment Partners

...ation and Services, Information Technology and Software Outsourced Services, Consumer Internet/New Media, Financial Services Technology, Clean Energy, broadband Internet and Wireless Communications, and Retail. Over a 30-year history, Oak has achieved a strong track record as a stage-independent investor fundi...

Clarient Granted Exclusive License to Commercialize Breast Cancer Biomarker by Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation

...ation and Services, Information Technology and Software Outsourced Services, Consumer Internet/New Media, Financial Services Technology, Clean Energy, broadband Internet and Wireless Communications, and Retail. Over a 30-year history, Oak has achieved a strong track record as a stage-independent investor fundi...

VivoMetrics to Present at the 2009 Biotech Showcase

...t: Vanessa Hughes Porter Novelli Life Sciences 310-444-7019 vhughes@porternovelli.com (1) Litan, Robert, Vital Signs via broadband Health Monitoring Transmits Savings, Enhances Lives , October 2008, Web site: http://www.betterhealthcaretogether.org/study . ...

Advanced Technologies and Wireless Telecommunications Enhance Care and Medical Training at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami

... specially configured laptops with EV-DO Rev. A wireless cards for enhanced broadband connectivity, through which surgeons can connect to the robot wherever 3G wireless broadband is available. The project enables specialty physicians using the RP-7 robot...

Huntington Area Development Council Attracts Technology-Based Startup Companies With $150,000 Grant From Verizon West Virginia

... new jobs. About Verizon Communications Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ ), headquartered in New York, is a leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication innovations to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates Ame...

Orange and Medic4all Launched the World's First Cellular Tele-Health Service

...leading telecommunications operators with more than 170 million customers on five continents. In June 2006, Orange became the single brand for mobile, broadband and multi-play offers. In addition, Orange Business Services became the new banner for business communications solutions. Orange Business Services is ...

Aware, Inc. Announces Extension of Stock Repurchase Plan

... BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE), a leading supplier of broadband technology and biometrics software, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved an extension to the program originally authorized on Augu...

Aware, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

.../PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq: AWRE), a leading supplier of broadband technology and biometrics software, today reported financial results for it...from other DSL vendors, DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband access, our business could be harmed if our test and diagnostic hardware an...

CorVel Corporation Announces Earnings Release Webcast

...for the year ended March 31, 2008, and the Company's most recent Form 10-Q. (Minimum requirements to listen to broadcast: Windows Media Player and a broadband Internet connection. If you are experiencing problems listening to the broadcast, please call 1-888-289-4717.) ...

Energetiq's Laser-Driven Light Source Technology Enables Continuous Spectrum Light Sources, from Visible to Deep Ultraviolet

...action of the cost of excimer or other DUV lasers. The fully integrated EQ-1000, which incorporates light collection optics and power supply, provides broadband spectral output from a flexible optical interface, allowing great flexibility for customers needing a long-life, high brightness, light source at an e...

CorVel Corporation Announces Earnings Release Webcast

...for the year ended March 31, 2007, and the Company's most recent Form 10-Q. (Minimum requirements to listen to broadcast: Windows Media Player and a broadband Internet connection. If you are experiencing problems listening to the broadcast, please call 1-888-289-4717.) ...

SimBioSys Utilizes Revolutionary Hardware Technology to Open New Frontiers in Molecular Modeling

...HiTS software on the IBM(R) BladeCenter(R) QS2 based on the multi-core Cell broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor, the new "eHiTS Lightning" software applicatio...hemical structures that yield a unique pharmacological profile. "The Cell broadband Engine processor was specifically designed to offer extreme performance to ...

Having Penetrated Israel's Domestic Telephony Market, 012 Smile.Communications Prepares for Its Next Goal: Entering Israel's Cellular Market

...ion, offering a wide range of broadband and traditional voice services. Its broadband services include broadband Internet access with a suite of value-added serv..., as well as new innovative services such as local telephony via voice over broadband and a WiFi network of hotspots across Israel. Traditional voice services in...

The Recession List - Top 10 Industries to Fly and Flop in 2008

...Web search portals will grow again in 2008, this time by 13.4 percent, with broadband connections also expected to rise by 15.1 percent. "Between this year and...h full saturation in American households," said Mr. Van Horn. "Furthermore, broadband services will account for an ever increasing share of domestic Internet use...

Double Resonance Probe for Liquid State NMR Applications From Varian, Inc. Increases Productivity for Routine Analyses

...hemists performing a broad range of common 1D and 2D NMR experiments. The OneNMR probe combines the best performance capabilities of the Varian Dual broadband and Indirect Detection probes in a single unit. It is ideal for routine double resonance experiments involving one high band and one low band nuclei. ...

Cepheid Appoints Senior VP, Chief Financial Officer to Management Team

...xperience includes Vice President of Worldwide Finance for Cadence Design Systems, and Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller for Adaptive broadband Corporation where he was responsible for worldwide finance, accounting, and treasury functions. He also worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc., serving in a...

012 Smile.Communications Receives License to Provide Endpoint Network Services

...ion, offering a wide range of broadband and traditional voice services. Its broadband services include broadband Internet access with a suite of value-added serv..., as well as new innovative services such as local telephony via voice over broadband and a WiFi network of hotspots across Israel. Traditional voice services in...

Israel's Ministry of Communications, 012 Smile.Communications, Intel and Alvarion Join in Launching WiMAX Initiative for Sderot, a City in the Western Negev

... The Initiative, Based on Advanced WiMAX broadband Wireless Technology, Will Provide Free Internet A...ject is to enable local citizens to enjoy wireless broadband surfing and to supply Internet links to public ins...gy. WiMAX technology enables the use of wireless broadband links for long distances (compared to WiFi), and t...

Celebrities and Notables From the Worlds of Film, Television, Music and Sports Join Lifetime Television's 13th Annual Multi-Platform 'Stop Breast Cancer For Life' Campaign

...tive, reaching over 100 million homes -- the most ever for the campaign. Lifetime also teamed up with Comcast and breastcancer.org to create a VOD and broadband campaign entitled Breast Cancer Hope, which offers viewers new, original educational content featuring Dr. Marissa Weiss, founder of breastcancer.org;...

Wisconsin Leaders Discuss Economic Development

...ransportation corridors as long as they have a solid telecommunications and broadband infrastructure. They are in search of good labor and lower costs. Wisco...luded no tax hikes, more competitive tax incentives, continued expansion of broadband services, certified economic development zones, improved four-lane highway ...