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Massachusetts revised information protection law in effect - with a few twists
For businesses that handle personal information as an owner of the information or as a licensee of the materials, new safeguards are now required.
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Town nixes school plan for server sharing
School superintendent says municipalities sharing net services is against the law.
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Muni wireless a $700 million business
What's the size of the municipal wireless market? Esme Vos, who runs the great MuniWireless site, has released a study that project U.S. cities, towns and counties will spend nearly $700 million...
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Flood of municipal wastewater treatment projects predicted
Report from Lux Research suggests close to $28 billion could be spent on wastewater treatment technologies in 2012
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IBM launches cloud services for federal, municipal governments
IBM plans to outline cloud computing services for the Federal government as well as various municipalities.
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Massachusetts revised information protection law in effect - with a few twists
For businesses that handle personal information as an owner of the information or as a licensee of the materials, new safeguards are now required.
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Dialight targets municipal street light retrofits with energy-efficient LED
Eying municipal retrofits mandated by Federal Energy Policy Act (EPACT 2005) and the Energy Independence and Security Act, Dialight has introduced its latest LED luminaire for street lighting...
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Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead
OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters...
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Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost
The final nail in the coffin of municipal Wi-Fi was hammered today as Earthlink pulled the plug on Philadelphia's wireless program, as the Wall Street Journal reports. "This was about a business...
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Cities themselves may be muni Wi-Fi's savior
Municipalities that plan to use new Wi-Fi networks being built in their cities will likely drive future growth of the citywide Wi-Fi movement.
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The summer that Muni Wi-Fi died
Speaking of Tim Wu, the good professor has written an intriguing piece for Slate subtitled Why Municipal Wireless Networks Have Been Such a Flop. Wu says it's not that public wireless is a bad...
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Week in review: EarthLink woes eclipse Wi-Fi plans
EarthLink's financial concerns imperil muni Wi-Fi projects, and Microsoft readies Vista's first major update. Also: Piracy versus privacy.
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Municipal wi-fi on the ropes
I'm constantly amazed at the places Glenn Fleishman's excellent articles turn up. That latest, on the problems municipal wi-fi networks are facing is in The Economist (the only newsweekly worth...
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EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in peril
EarthLink says it can't afford to foot the bill to build citywide Wi-Fi networks, jeopardizing cities' plans to provide low-income residents with affordable broadband.
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Muni Wi-Fi in trouble unless cities cough up some (big) bucks
Not that long ago, municipal Wi-Fi was the talk of the town, so to speak. These days the latest rendition of the information superhighway is getting a bumpy ride, or plenty of static (choose your...
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Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-Fi
US Representatives Rick Boucher (R-Va.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) this week resurrected the Community Broadband Act of 2007 (PDF). The measure to block state laws from preventing municipal Wi-Fi...
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The realities of municipal Wi-Fi
Municipal Wi-Fi is a step in the wrong direction -- back to a time where there was one telephone company and one provider of cable TV. By necessity, we still have no choice of electric company,...
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Why municipal WiFi is an educational expense
I'm not big on large government-funded projects, whether at the federal, state, or local levels. In my experience, they just have a tendency to go awry. Of course, I live outside of Boston. Can...
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Is muni Wi-Fi dead? Microsoft is wondering
At the Muni Wireless 2007 conference in New England recently, Microsoft officials commented on the future of Wi-Fi, and it looks a bit bleak, reports Computerworld. "We're finding that there are...
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Nortel takes on more municipal wireless projects
Greenville, N.C., plus several suburbs of Denver will get connected.
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