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Bridging the digital divide is the wrong battle cry

Beating the drum for a socialistic platitude on the use of the country's network infrastructure may be considered noble in some circles, but it does not capture the true essence of the total importance of having an infrastructure that can support and sustain economic development. Forget the Digital Divide and view our lack of infrastructure providing true broadband...

Businesses could bridge digital divide in Milwaukee with used computers

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Does redefining universal service help bridge the digital divide?

In exchange for getting exclusivity to a geographic subscriber base, the traditional phone companies ensured that everyone got service to their house or...

When will the Internet be divided among nations?

This fight over ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is all about a golden key. Without it, the Internet is completely useless. That golden key is a name on the net called a URL. It's all about the master design of a sophisticated key management system so that billions of single domain name identities can offer access to billions of sites...

Digital Government Summit seeks to bridge the digital divide

Matt Miszewski, CIO for the State of Wisconsin, said the goal of the conference was to develop connections between public and private...

Renaissance Learning issues dividend

Net income stood at $7.3 million, or 24 cents per share, a de...

Rockwell Automation ups quarterly dividend by 36 percent

Chairman and CEO Keith Nosbusch said the change reflected strong earnings and the board's confidence in the company's future. Rockwell makes control and automation systems for industrial applications. In fiscal 2004 it...

How to tackle the divide between techies and non-techies at work

When you work among techies, you learn a lot of things. You learn that most of them are pessimistic about the upcoming film The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and their faithfulness to the book. As a rule, you learn that techies like Linux and hate Microsoft. Among many other useful things, you also learn at work among techies how they really, really feel about technology. Even...