In an interesting story, the Wall Street Journal covered the homeless population of San Francisco and showed that some of them are almost as connected as someone with a home. This story is similar to how we learned that the homeless population in Washington DC was using cell phones and honestly at the time I more »

“U.S. Government Broadband, Inc. now bringing you the World Wide Web at lightning speeds.” Wait – the U.S. Government provides broadband? But, the Government isn’t a telecom — yet. A member of the Obama Administration is supporting the idea of a U.S. tax-subsidized public broadband network. Just imagine, high-speed internet everywhere, even in the most rural parts of the country. Plus, this isn’t your ordinary cable internet – when they say high-speed, they are talking 100 times as fast as what we have now.

So, theoretically, you could sit back and stream HD movies to your laptop, even if you’re in the middle of nowhere. Isn’t that what we all want? For most of us, the answer is yes, but, is such a large-scale telecom project possible? Well, Australia and Singapore are already in the process of successfully implementing such a network and Britain and the Netherlands are making their own network plans.

North Korea is a country that likes to do things their own way and be totally separated from the outside world. However, with today’s current technology, it’s pretty hard to be completely isolated from people because of the abundance of communication tools. It was only a few years ago that North Korean citizens were allowed more »

A company called WAAV and the MBTA (the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) are putting Wi-Fi on commuter trains. This access will be provided for free. All of this will be completed in 2009. WAAV is using 3G connections, so that ought to be decent enough to get your Internet-fix while you try to ignore the more »

Sprint has finally opened its Xohm WiMAX network in the city of Baltimore. With this, as long as you have a WiMAX adapter and can pay the charge for the service, Internet is available anywhere within the city. For home service the WiMAX service costs $25 per month for six months, and $35 per month after that. Laptop access will cost $30 per month for the first six months, with no talk of price after that. If you’re just visiting the city, single day access will cost $10, which is a bit steep, but not bad compared to the price of Wi-Fi access in some airports.

Time Warner has announced it plans to split off its Internet access business from its website and and cut 100 jobs at its corporate headquarters. In addition, it is looking at selling its remaining shares of Time Warner Cable. The company’s 4th quarter revenue fell 32% compared with the same quarter a year ago. There more »