Black Elected Officials Urge FCC to Keep the Digital Divide in Mind
by Lesly Simmons
In a letter sent to the FCC last month, the groups asked the agency “ensure that any new rules proposed can clearly be shown to benefit all consumers and not expand the digital divide facing disadvantaged populations.” The FCC is one of the agencies responsible for developing and implementing a national broadband plan.
Read MoreFCC Uses Twitter and Blog to Evangelize National Broadband Plan
by Robin Caldwell
The Federal Communications Commission has launched a blog and a Twitter feed in an effort to strengthen its resolve to take the discussion of broadband use directly to the people. The social media campaign supplements the overall plan of the agency to engage the public in an ongoing dialogue.
Read MoreAdware 2.0: It’s in your IP
by Jade
Once upon a time, there were these programs called adware. They would package things with pretty little applications that has screen savers, or, my favorite, a weather bug, and then they would monitor your online activity and send you targeted ads. Adware came over scrutiny though, and slowly disappeared in to non-existence, only to make [...]
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