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  • BroadBand Technology

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries?index=18&list=PL3CBC3FCC2D388DE7&hl=en_US%5D Broadband research is a McGill area of expertise. Meet researchers such as David Plant, Tho Le-Ngoc, and Mark Coates who are on the cutting edge of machine to machine communication, high-speed internet technologies, and wireless communications. Dialogos of Eide

  • BroadBand Portals of the OECD

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEtF6JiJKAg%5D Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about the challenges ahead and why an open Internet is key to its continuing success *** The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine…

  • Neural Connections?

    Wiki Growth Over Time  This is a project conducted by ChrisDavis and IgorNikolic to visualize the growth of wiki.tudelft.nl since its beginning in late 2004. Since then, it has grown to over 10,000 pages, and is now part of the officially supported ICT infrastructure of Delft University of Technology. This wiki is meant to be…

  • CERN brings hardware into the open

    It good to see great minds think alike?:) The Open Hardware Repository was inspired by the success of open-source software. (Image courtesy CERN.) Hardware and software go hand in hand – one doesn’t work without the other. Despite being so closely linked, the two industries operate very differently. For the most part, hardware is produced…

  • Broadband in a Full Democracy

    White space in telecommunications refers to unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. National and international bodies assign differing frequencies for specific uses, and in some cases license the rights to these. This frequency allocation process creates a bandplan which in some cases for technical reasons assigns white space between used…

  • Digital Future Survey:You Should Look

    Digital Future Survey: The Parties Respond *** To whom it may concern: The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense. The Internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But those freedoms are being chipped away. Please, I beg you, open your senses to the…

  • We Cannot Apply Constraints to Communication?

    Is the public winners in decisions that “add more cost” to what should be access to “freedoms of information?” The Cathedral and the Bizarre by Jeff Lewis The problem there is that the ‘capitalist trench’ problem is just as real in OpenSource as it is in commerical product: once a group buys into a specific…

  • Free Access to the Universal Library?

    “The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, archi­tectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and…

  • Events → Richard M. Stallman Speeches

    Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms”,[2] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[3] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[4] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he started the free…

  • Larry Page in Support of White Space?

    The United States 700 MHz FCC wireless spectrum auction was started by the FCC on January 24, 2008 for the rights to operate the 700 MHz frequency band in the United States. The details of process were the subject of debate between several telecommunications companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and startup Frontline Wireless, as well…

  • White Space

    While existing companies control access to the internet it is with some contention that I see people regardless of the portal created through to internet access should have “free access” to this. Currently Governments hold the rights to auction so anything that is derived or sold by the government rightfully belongs to the people. White…