New Orleans No sooner are we dissecting Comcast and VP David Cohen’s remarks about metering broadband access than later in the day Gerry Smith, the Huffington Post tech writer, breaks the story of the FCC’s announcement of a settlement with the company over their foot dragging on their agreement to market a fixed rate broadband …
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Times-Warner, Comcast, and Others Narrowing Broadband, Widening the Digital Divide
Toronto Yet more disconcerting news flying in the face of all of us who care about the class and opportunity divides that are permanently widening the inequity between have-a-littles and have-a-lots with emerging reports of metered broadband access to the internet thanks to the relentless efforts of Times-Warner, Comcast and other cable companies, and the …
Times-Picayune Goes Digital While Changes Prove Alienation from Community
New Orleans My hometown paper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, suddenly announced after being scooped by the New York Times, their radical plans to cease being a paper. They were less frank about their total desertion of New Orleans as their hometown, though their intentions are explicit. Inarguably times have changed for daily newspapers and the …