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Local sports briefs
Prep GolfBarstow picks up its first DSL win of the season At Helendale, Jason Bales earned the medalist honors with a 2-over 74 for the fourth time in four tries to lead the defending league champion Aztecs to their first Desert Sky League win of the...
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Fiber Optics: Past Copper
Most of the active connections to this globe spanning network we all love to hate come in the form of cable or DSL. Modulated electric signals get transmitted over metal wires, coaxial or twisted pair respectively. These technologies transmit the internet as most experience it. Verizon has begun to break down this model with it’s FiOS fiber optic lines, but they have been really slow to roll out ...
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Google Fiber Brings Threat and Opportunity for ISPs
James Nelson has been offering Internet access to folks in Kansas City since 1995 through his ISP KCnet , where he is president and chief executive, but today marks a turning point in his business.Wednesday morning, Google named Kansas City, Kan.
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Look Before You Leap: A Consumer's Guide to the Cloud
We've had cloud-based services for consumers for years. That includes online storage services, photo sites like Picasa and Flickr, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, Web apps like Google Apps and even online email systems. Amazon took things to the next level when it announced its entry Tuesday into cloud music storage with its Cloud Drive offering.
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CenturyLink completes acquisition of Qwest
CenturyLink has closed its $12.2 billion acquisition of U.S. regional telco and ISP Qwest, making the country's third-largest phone company.
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CTIA 2011: Throttling & the Data Cap Debate
Just a transparency suggestion....How about an LCD panel on the front of your cable/dsl modem with important status like that. That way I don't have to log into anything to check.
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PLDT: Sun Cellular unli packages to stay
Philippine Long Distance Company (PLDT) vows to continue the unlimited text package of Sun Cellular, even after the telecom giant completes its investment in Digitel Inc.
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New VoIP solutions for distributed enterprise
We recently had a chance to talk about Hughes Network Systems' new VoIP offer with Sampath Ramaswami, a senior director responsible for the development of new services for the North American enterprise market at Hughes. The VoIP service takes advantage of DSL, cable modem and FiOS broadband access to deliver competitively priced VoIP solutions to the distributed enterprise.
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More fines in more places
AT&T made headlines last week when it announced it would try to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion, which carefully diverted attention away from an announcement AT&T made the week before: the introduction of bandwidth caps for its internet customers. Starting May 2, AT&T will cap its DSL internet service at 150 gigabytes per month per household nationwide (250 GB for U-Verse customers) and begin ...
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FairPoint Communications Reports 2010 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Consolidated EBITDAR(1) increases over 22 percent to $84.0 million versus fourth quarter 2009 Operational improvements drive a $12.7 million one-time revenue benefit in the quarter Loss from Operations for the quarter improves to $18.2 million from $31.2 million a year earlier High-speed Internet subscribers increase annually for the first time ...
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Google breaks Valley's heart for the heartland
Internet giant chooses Kansas City, Kan., for its ultra high-speed network, the first of its kind in U.S. Sometimes a shared loss of love can bring two people … er, cities together. So if you happen to catch traditional rivals Allentown and Bethlehem collectively sharing a few tissues this week, no need to ask for all the painful, nitty-gritty details.
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