PHILADELPHIA Five of the nation's largest cable companies Comcast Corp., Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable are creating a seamless national WiFi network to enable cable broadband subscribers to stream data or ... Read more »
60,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protest the Evils of the Internet
The sub-headline is priceless, “15,000 Hasidic women watched speeches at six sites thanks to live-streaming on the Internet.” Via the New York Daily News:
Read more »A mass rally for men only drew more than 40,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews to Citi Field Sunday to denounce the Internet and its pervasive impact on family life.
An overflow crowd of another 20,000 bearded men sporting long black coats and big black hats filled nearby Arthur Ashe Stadium for the unprecedented attack on modern technology.
Unable to enter the Queens stadiums because of the strict separation of the sexes enforced by the organizers, more than 15,000 Hasidic women watched the speeches at six sites across the tristate area — thanks to live-streaming on the Internet.
The rally was organized by a little-known rabbinical group called Ichud Hakehillos L’tohar Hamachane — the Union of Communities for the Purity of the Camp — to spread the word that online activities can lead…
If council says yes, it’s WiFi at Pawnee Park
COLUMBUS Columbus City Council is expected to take action on a recommendation Monday that would make Frontier Communications the provider for wireless Internet service in Pawnee Park. Frontier, which submitted the lone proposal for the project, would d... Read more »
Meet TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership: SOPA+PiPA+CiSPA+SPP "Free Trade" Agreement in One
TPP secretly cracking downon Internet freedoms? http://youtu.be/cHgySJYZERY Published on May 16, 2012 by RTAmerica The Trans-Pacific Partnership is an international trade agreement between nine countries and not a lot of people have heard of it. Beh... Read more »
A look at BlackBerry and its maker in recent months as it faces heavy competition
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Did All Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
Cast of the fossil dromaeosaur specimen NGMC 91 (nicknamed "Dave", cf. Sinornithosaurus). Photo: Dinoguy2 (CC)
I remember reading long ago an article about how man’s own psychological and sociological biases can shape how they view scientific phenomenon. (Sadly, as this was in the pre-Internet days, I can’t locate it anywhere on the Web, so forgive me if the details are vague or off a bit.) Perhaps the best example: when the biological process of impregnation is usually presented, the model is a valiant army of noble sperm battling waves of defenders to the egg as it lays helpless from the attack without the surrounding protections.
This image evokes the idealized fantasies of the Age of Chivalry, turning the act of conception into a battle between knights and warriors over a chaste and passive queen. (Talk about a Holy Grail.) It also squares with the gender roles that dominate society, that of the…
Read more »Did All Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
Cast of the fossil dromaeosaur specimen NGMC 91 (nicknamed "Dave", cf. Sinornithosaurus). Photo: Dinoguy2 (CC)
I remember reading long ago an article about how man’s own psychological and sociological biases can shape how they view scientific phenomenon. (Sadly, as this was in the pre-Internet days, I can’t locate it anywhere on the Web, so forgive me if the details are vague or off a bit.) Perhaps the best example: when the biological process of impregnation is usually presented, the model is a valiant army of noble sperm battling waves of defenders to the egg as it lays helpless from the attack without the surrounding protections.
This image evokes the idealized fantasies of the Age of Chivalry, turning the act of conception into a battle between knights and warriors over a chaste and passive queen. (Talk about a Holy Grail.) It also squares with the gender roles that dominate society, that of the…
Read more »Are Generation Y ‘careless’ in their use of Wifi?
Public Wifi services are being expanded across the West from entire cities using smart grid technology to support wireless connection for its citizens, to stores offering access to the Internet in return for buying a coffee or book. However, do the you... Read more »
More smartphone users in India access Net than in America
New Delhi: When it comes to accessing Internet through smartphones, the number of Indians outweigh the number of Americans in the activity, says a survey conducted by Google in partnership with research firm Ipsos. The survey indicated that 56 percent ... Read more »
Location-based services: Are they there yet?
Computerworld - Mobile users are more connected to the Internet than ever. As of December 2011, ComScore estimated that there are 97.9 million smartphone users in the U.S. -- nearly a third of the total population. Almost every one of those devices can... Read more »
