AT&T: Free WiFi with DSL
AT&T, which knows a marketing trick or two, today announced its DSL customers can now receive free WiFi access over AT&T’s network — which includes nearly 10,000 hot spots including airports, McDonalds, Barnes & Noble, coffee shops and popular sporting venues.
With one of the nation’s largest Wi-Fi networks, AT&T can encourage more iPhone users to subscibe to DSL services.
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As the demands that content such as high-definition television programming make on the central processors in electronic devices grows, so, too, will the processing demands to keep that content secure. To keep those security demands from swamping the performance of a system, system architects have started handing off those functions to embedded systems dedicated to security concerns.
E-mail marketing — please don’t call it spam for just a moment until you consider the argument — offers one of the most cost-effective ways to market to consumers. Startup costs are so small that any company can integrate a smartly designed campaign into its marketing program in short time.
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Can this open source movement in content creation live side by side with other forms of communication where we like to have the final word? Wikis have shown us the art of blurring the lines between writers and readers, teachers and students, senders and receivers. Now that the firewall has been breached, a whole host of internal, external, brand and corporate communication will have to tiptoe in.
Many high schools have instituted zero-tolerance policies for iPods and other MP3 players, banning them from campus completely. Other schools, however, are playing with policies that allow the devices, at least in the halls and libraries. Students say music helps them concentrate, and some teachers say they could never really figure out why they were forbidden outside of class in the first place.
Certain popular Web sites — including MySpace and YouTube — are no longer accessible to users of military networks. Critics are decrying the hardship the ban causes to soldiers deployed overseas, who have relied on social networking to stay close to family and friends, and have no Internet access other than the DoD nets.
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Now that Supreme Court has ruled that the EPA is responsible for cutting greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, President Bush has called for cuts in CO2 emissions. The goals include measures that would significantly increase government fuel efficiency requirements in small cars for the first time in two decades. The move, however, may come too late in his presidency to have any real teeth.
Bill Gates touted Vista sales, unveiled the new name for the server version of Windows — “Windows Server 2008″ — and focused on the rise of networked homes in a speech at the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. This may mark Gates’ last speech at the annual meeting, as he is slowly becoming less involved with the company’s main operations.
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At a conference in New York, DirecTV CEO Chase Carey commented that his company may begin testing the delivery of high-speed Internet access over electrical lines. While DirecTV is enjoying growth among its television subscriber base, it currently has no Internet services of its own to offer, giving it a disadvantage when trying to compete with triple play offerings.
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