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Also Try Child Safety and Filtering Software Current Events Archives Windows Vista News -05-14-08 How Our Virtual World Influences Our Real World (Time.com) "I didn't realize how instructive my sister's question was until recently, when I discovered research being done at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL). Jeremy Bailenson, head of the lab and an assistant professor of communication at Stanford, studies the way self-perception affects behavior. No surprise that what we think about ourselves affects the confidence with which we approach the world. What is a surprise is that this applies in the virtual world too. With my plain Jane avatar and my inexperience in Second Life, I did what most people would want to do in an uncomfortable social situation: run away." 05-08 -01-01-07 Intel Introduces Core 2 Quad Chip (PCWorld.com) "Quad-core chips can handle complex tasks faster than single-core chips by using multithreaded software to break each job into smaller pieces, then computing them simultaneously. The chips are most popular with users of servers and workstations running programs like digital media creation and high-end gaming." 01-07 -01-06-07 Verizon to Offer Cellphone TV (USA Today) "Prime time is coming to the really small screen." 01-07 -01-09-07 Apple Reveals iPhone (Time Magazine) "pple's new iPhone could do to the cell phone market what the iPod did to the portable music player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight of its own superiority. This is unfortunate for anybody else who makes cell phones, but it's good news for those of us who use them." 01-07 -01-10-07 New Flash-Based Hard Drives (MSNBC News) "SanDisk Corporation has introduced a 32GB, 1.8-inch solid-state drive (SSD) which is built to be a drop-in replacement for standard mechanical hard disk drives. This means the device has no moving parts." 01-07 -01-10-08 Gadgets for Tomorrow (Christian Science Monitor) "As the new year begins, a host of companies is unveiling products to help consumers find the right work-life balance in 2008. Here are a few entries featured in our new product catalog." 01-08 -01-30-06 Blackworm Countdown (TimesOnline.co.uk) "The clock is ticking on a dangerous computer virus programmed to delete millions of Word files stored on PCs when it reaches the end of its countdown on Friday." 01-06 -01-30-07 Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft (PBS News) "Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates announced Thursday he would give up his day-to-day role in the company to focus on philanthropy. David Kirkpatrick, senior editor of Fortune magazine and Stacy Palmer, editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy discuss Bill Gate's move to philanthropy." 01-07 -01-30-07 Windows Vista Review (BBC News) "The BBC's Technology team have put Vista through its paces and sampled reaction of those using it." 01-07 -02-02-07 Interview With Bill Gates on Vista (MSNBC News) "Bill Gates explains why you should buy his new operating system, what he’s doing next and why John Hodgeman bugs him." 01-07 -02-02-07 Viacom Orders YouTube.com to Remove Videos (MSNBC News) "Media company Viacom Inc., which owns the cable networks MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures movie studio, asked YouTube on Friday to remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from its hugely popular video-sharing site." 01-07 -02-21-08 Sony's Blu-ray Beats Toshiba's HD DVD (US News) "In the fast-changing world of video tech, two years seems an eternity. The question is whether it's a fatal delay for high-definition movies on disk." "Toshiba announced Tuesday that it was abandoning the high-def disk battle, giving the victory to Sony and its Blu-ray format." 2-08 -03-10-07 Poll: Character More Important Than Policies for Voters (ABC News) "For all the policy blueprints churned out by presidential campaigns, there is this indisputable fact: People care less about issues than they do about a candidate's character." 03-07 -03-10-07 Sony Introduces a Videotape-to-DVD Converter (News.com) "Enter the Sony DVDirect VRD-MC3, a $218 box that converts old (and new) videotapes into shiny new DVDs with an emphasis on two extremely important attributes: simplicity and reproduction quality." 03-07 -03-12-07 "No EMail" Fridays (ABC News) " 'I'm announcing a ban on e-mail every Friday,' Ellison's memo read. 'Get out to meet your teams face-to-face. Pick up the phone and give someone a call. … I look forward to not hearing from any of you, but stop by as often as you like.' " "The no-e-mail-Friday idea landed with a thud." 03-07 -03-16-07 Communications Companies Bid for Biggest U.S. Government Communications Contract Ever (Bloomberg.com) "AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and competing phone companies will find out this month whether they can bid for the biggest U.S. government communications contract ever or get shut out of most federal work for a decade." "Carriers must win the right to bid on projects valued at more than $20 billion over 10 years, for work ranging from Internet-based telephone and video services to data-network security upgrades. As many as 135 agencies will pick providers from the list, limiting work for companies that are left out." 03-07 -03-17-07 Viacom Files $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Google (ABC News) "Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. said on Tuesday that it was suing Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion over unauthorized use of its programming online." 03-07 -03-23-07 Yahoo Ad Software Improves Sales (Bloomberg.com) "In its first six weeks, the results lit up both Yahoo's darkened operations room and its prospects for gaining ground on Google Inc. The rate of clicks on Yahoo ads rose about 10 percent compared with the old software, according to AQuantive Inc., the biggest U.S. online ad agency." 03-07 -03-28-07 Google Works on Instant Machine Translations (MSNBC News) "Google's approach, called statistical machine translation, differs from past efforts in that it forgoes language experts who program grammatical rules and dictionaries into computers." "Instead, they feed documents humans have already translated into two languages and then rely on computers to discern patterns for future translations." 03-07 -03-30-06 Avoiding Tech Hassles (MSNBC Technology) "After more than five years of writing about the numerous pitfalls that plague technology consumers, one can't help but pick up some pointers. So here's my compendium of tips to help you avoid persistent tech problems and maybe even save a few bucks, too." 03-06 -04-05-08 New Websites for Kids Growing Fast (US News) "Maybe it's the desire to protect our children from the ravages of unfettered Web surfing. Or maybe it's the $350 million that Disney paid last year to buy Club Penguin, a site popular with the preteen set. Whatever the motive, online sites and services aimed at tweens and younger are bouncing up faster than a 6-year-old on a sugar high." 04-08 -04-15-07 What's Wrong With the Web (MSNBC News) "Government and university researchers have been exploring ways to redesign the Internet from scratch." 04-07 -04-19-07 How Smart Mobs Coped With a Massacre (MSNBC News) "College’s response to tragedy illustrated how wired world now works." "The way students and teachers passed along information during the Virginia Tech massacre — via cellphone videos and campus-watching Webcams, via text messages and Web bulletin boards — demonstrates how the wired world has changed in the 21st century, one of the prophets of the new age says." 04-07 -04-23-07 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' Wins $25,000 (CNN News) "Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' from 'Mary Poppins' in 15 seconds." 04-07 -05-08-07 Comcast CEO Shows a Much Faster Download Technology (MSNBC News) "Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems." 05-07 -05-09-08 Facebook Safeguards Added (CNN News) "Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday." 05-08 -05-11-07 New Domains in 2008? (MSNBC News) "INew Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday." 05-07 -05-12-06 High Tech May Replace Some Caregivers (ABC News) "Across town, Louise — who uses a walker to get around — shows us how the system works. Her apartment is rigged with a series of motion detectors that track her movements and then transmit that information over the Internet to her family members." 05-06 -05-30-07 "Surface:" A Revolutionary New Interface for Computers? (MSNBC News) "In an industry whose bold pronouncements about the future have taught me the benefits of skepticism, Surface took my breath away. If the Surface project rollout goes as planned in November, it could alter the way everyday Americans control the technology that currently overwhelms many of us." 05-07 -05-31-07 A Top Spammer Caught (MSNBC News) "A 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail." 05-07 -06-04-07 China Expected to Become the Largest Internet Population (MSNBC News) "China has the world's second-largest population of Internet users, with 137 million people online, and is on track to surpass the United States as the largest online population in two years." 06-07 -06-09-07 Wireless Charging of Devices (CBS News) "Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers announced Thursday they had made a 60-watt light bulb glow by sending it energy wirelessly, potentially previewing a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get juice without having to be plugged in." 06-07 -06-17-07 Online Sales Growth Rate Peaking (New York Times) "Since the inception of the Web, online commerce has enjoyed hypergrowth, with annual sales increasing more than 25 percent over all, and far more rapidly in many categories. But in the last year, growth has slowed sharply in major sectors like books, tickets and office supplies." "In response, a so-called clicks-and-bricks hybrid model is emerging, said Dan Whaley, the founder of GetThere, which became one of the largest Internet travel businesses after it was acquired by Sabre Holdings." "John Morgan, an economics professor from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, said he expected online commerce to continue to increase, partly because it remains less than 1 percent of the overall economy. 'There’s still a lot of head room for people to grow,' he said.' 06-07 -06-18-07 Blockbuster to Focus on Blu-ray for High Definition (BBC News) "Film rental firm Blockbuster is to rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format at 1,450 US stores." 06-07 -06-18-07 Touch Screens Start to Take Over (Time Magazine) "People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free computing, instinctive and intuitive, with zero learning curve." 06-07 -06-18-07 Yahoo Boss Steps Down (BBC News) "The chief executive of internet search firm Yahoo, Terry Semel, has quit his position and has been replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang." 06-07 -06-22-07 Court Gives Email Privacy Protection (Time Magazine) "In a startling decision this week, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ordered the feds to keep their mitts off e-mail stored with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) like Yahoo! unless they notify the sender first or show that he doesn't consider the e-mail private. The ruling was based on the conclusion that most people think e-mail, like letters or phone conversations, is private, and protected under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable government searches and seizures." "That seems a pretty fair conclusion, but the amazing thing is that no court has ever reached it before. In other words, we've been living under a legal regime that essentially assumes we don't much care if, say, Alberto Gonzales sees our e-mails after they leave our outbox. So for a federal appeals court to upend that regime is a big deal, as experts like Professor Orin Kerr at George Washington University Law School will tell you." " 'If this case sticks around,' says Kerr, 'it's the most important decision involving the Fourth Amendment in a long time for new technologies.' " 06-07 -06-30-06 Partnership Proposed to Combine GM, Nissan, and Renault (Bloomberg.com) "Kirk Kerkorian, General Motors Corp.'s biggest individual shareholder, urged the struggling carmarker to ally with Carlos Ghosn's Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA.'' 06-06 -06-30-07 25 Web Sites to Watch (MSNBC News) "To keep you ahead of the curve, we've rounded up 25 innovative Web sites and services that are well worth watching. Some of them help you design your own personalized Web site mashups; others enable you to create video mixes, build wikis, share personal obsessions, and more. But take note: A number of these sites are works in progress, and user-generated sites depend on developing a critical mass of content, which doesn't happen right away. With that in mind, check out the following dot-com destinations. One of them may become the next big Web hit." 06-07 -06-30-07 AT&T Nearly Out of iPhones (MSNBC News) "AT&T Inc. sold almost all its initial stock of Apple Inc.’s iPhone within hours of the device going on sale, an AT&T spokesman said on Saturday." "The combination cell phone, media player and Web browser went on sale at AT&T and Apple stores on Friday at 6 p.m. in each U.S. time zone in the most anticipated gadget launch of the year." 06-07 -06-30-07 iPhones: Are They Worth It? (CBS News) "The bad part about web browsing is the sometimes agonizingly slow AT&T Edge network that the phone forces you to use unless you happen to have wireless WiFi access." "I give the phone high marks when it comes to email. Although you can use it with virtually any POP3 or IMAP email account (which means it should work with most corporate email systems that don’t have iron-clad firewall requirements), the iPhone works out of the box with Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL and Apple’s own .mac mail service. With each of these services you simply enter your user name and password once and let the iPhone’s software handle the rest. It took me under 2 minutes to start getting and responding to my Gmail." 06-07 -07-07-07 iPhones Must Be Sent In to Replace Batteries (CBS News) "The iPhone's battery is apparently soldered on inside the device and cannot be swapped out by the owner like most other cell phones." "Users would have to submit their iPhone to Apple for battery service. The service will cost users $79, plus $6.95 for shipping, and will take three business days." 06-07 -07-14-06 YouTube Takes the Stage (ABC News) "Like YouTube's unorthodox Web site, Sling Media's product might have unnerved long-established media a few years ago." 07-06 -07-22-06 Google Fights Click Fraud (ABC News) "Google Inc. appears to be doing reasonably well protecting advertisers from scam artists preying upon the Internet's largest marketing network, but it remains unclear how much the system is being bilked under a ruse known as click fraud, according to an independent report filed in court Friday." 07-06 -07-22-06 Panasonic Releases Largest Plasma TV (ABC News) "Measuring 103 inches diagonally — or roughly the size of 7-foot-tall Shaquille O'Neal — Panasonic's new high-definition plasma TV is the largest available to U.S. consumers." 07-06 -07-22-07 40 Gigabites-per-Second Residential Connection (CNN News) " Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said." "In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit." "The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said." 07-07 -09-01-06 New Skype Phone Doesn't Need Wi-Fi or PC Connection (ABC News) "Skype announced a new cordless phone on Thursday that sends and receives Skype calls just like a landline, but without the need for a computer." 09-06 -09-13-07 Tech Stocks for Tough Times (USNews.com) "Here are five tech stocks worth a look." 09-07 -09-15-07 $100 Computer for Every Child Becomes $188 Computer (CNN News) "Leaders of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child that was spun out of MIT acknowledged Friday that the devices are now slated to cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The last price the nonprofit announced was $176; it described $100 as a long-term goal." 09-07 -09-19-07 AOL to Focus on Advertising (MSNBC News) "AOL stepped up its transformation from Internet access provider into an ad-driven business Monday as it announced plans to move its corporate headquarters and consolidate its advertising operations." 09-07 -10-03-07 The Worm that Roared (Time Magazine) "Nobody knows who's behind the Storm Worm. F-Secure suspects a group based in Russia, but there's no way to be sure, and recent Storm Worm subject lines referring to Labor Day and the start of the football season suggest that those involved have an American connection. What is certain is that they are very smart--prodigious innovators engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with security firms that so far they're winning." 10-07 -10-07-06 Google May Buy YouTube (MSNBC News) "Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter." 10-06 -10-09-06 Google Buys YouTube.com (BBC News) "Google is buying video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn... in shares after a weekend of speculation that a deal was in the offing." 10-06 -10-09-06 Warner Music and YouTube.com Make a Deal (BBC News) "Video-sharing site YouTube has signed a deal with media giant Warner Music to allow its material to be used legally." 10-06 -10-16-06 We Are Losing Our Privacy: Do We Care? (MSNBC News) "Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret." "The key question is: Does that matter?" 10-06 -10-20-07 Apple Introduces the iPod Touch (ABC News) "I've been testing the newest member of the iPod family, the big-screen iPod Touch. It's a close cousin to the iPhone that connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi wireless networking and replaces the famous iPod click wheel with a touch screen." 06-07 -10-22-07 How Many Site Hits? (New York Times) "Online advertising is expected to generate more than $20 billion in revenue this year, more than double the $9.6 billion it represented as recently as 2004. Nobody doubts that the figure will grow — particularly as advertisers hone their techniques for aiming messages to particular consumers — but the question remains how much the clashing traffic figures will hold the market back." 10-07 -10-23-06 Google Gets Political About Having an Open Internet (Guardian Unlimited) " 'We started this NetPAC in order to be able to support office-holders and candidates who share our vision of promoting and preserving the internet as a free and open platform for information, communication and innovation,' he says. 'Google has thrived thanks to the opportunities of the free market so we believe it is important to look at policymakers as they make decisions that impact our users and businesses.' " 10-06 -11-04-07 Budget, Ultralight Laptop Announced (MSNBC News) "Their [Asus] Eee PC also is a small, simple laptop which runs on the Linux operating system and is made to sell for just $300 to $400. Since it went on sale, last month in Taiwan, the Eee has been selling like hotcakes." 11-07 -11-27-06 Copiepresse Sues Google Over Linking to Their Newspapers (Bloomberg.com) "Copiepresse, a group of 17 French- and German-language newspapers, won a Brussels court ruling in September that forced Google to stop providing links to the papers' Web sites. The threat of legal action persuaded Microsoft Corp. to do the same. Now Copiepresse plans to take the fight to the rest of Europe." 11-06 -12-07-07 PC Memory Currently at Discounts (US News) "Now is the time to stuff your computer with DRAM, even if it means yanking out smaller chips that are in the way. Absent holiday discounts, it still can cost less than $50 to install two sticks of 1 gigabyte each. That would keep a PC humming even when shouldering the latest memory hogs: Windows Vista and Macintosh Leopard." 12-07 -12-17-07 Ask.com Adds a Search Record Eraser (CNN.com) "Hoping to establish itself as the Internet's least intrusive search engine, Ask.com is empowering people to prevent their search requests from being deposited in data banks." "The new privacy control, called 'AskEraser,' is scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday. When it's turned on, the safeguard purges a user's search requests from Ask.com's computers within a few hours." 12-07 Athletic Ability Tests (MSNCNET.com) "Sports Potential, in Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a series of tests and sophisticated software to calculate an individual's aptitude for a wide range of sports--from baseball to bobsledding. After a two-hour test, the company's Web-based software can illustrate a subject's physical traits, such as body composition, power, speed, agility and endurance, and compare the results with people in the same age group." 02-06 Futuristic Home (MSN Technology) "MSN Tech & Gadgets takes you on an exclusive tour of the Microsoft Home. Is this what your home could be like in 2015?" 10-06 Internet Explorer 7.0 Recommended (ABC News) "What I said in my beta 3 review still applies: I think it's solid overall and a big improvement over the patchwork quilt IE6 has become. At the same time, when I'm in a mood to really try new things and push the envelope, I like the current Firefox and Opera more." 10-06 MSN's List of Top Technology Products (MSNBC News) Provides overviews of desktops, laptops, cameras, media players, cells phones, and more. 06-07 Technology and Gadgets (MSN.com) Provides news on the latest technology and gadgets. 11-05 Papers -Editorial: What Should Be the New Global Role of the Internet? (MSNBC News) "Clearly the Internet must move beyond its U.S.-centric roots, but it's just as clear that it shouldn't look like the United Nations, or like China, or like a for-profit enterprise. Figuring out the right balance between commerce, culture and connectivity won't be an easy task. But there could be no better use for our global bandwidth right now." 05-06 Bio-Fuels From Genetics (MSN.com) "J. Craig Venter, who gained worldwide fame in 2000 when he mapped the human genetic code, is behind a new start-up called Synthetic Genomics, which plans to create new types of organisms that, ideally, would produce hydrogen, secrete nonpolluting heating oil or be able to break down greenhouse gases." 11-05 Brave New World for Television (ABC News) "It's a brave new world of television viewing — so much so that many people are wondering if watching regularly scheduled programs will soon become a thing of the past." 06-06 Editorial: How Apple May Save Blockbuster Video (PBC.org - Cringely) "Poor Blockbuster Video hasn't made a profit in years, the stock is down about 90 percent from its 2002 high, NetFlix is cleaning its clock, and nobody - I mean NOBODY - thinks the future looks in any way rosy for this pioneering video rental chain. Steve Jobs to the rescue? Maybe." "Apple's Blockbuster product strategy is simple. Start with a new iPod that has video- and audio-out capability. This iPod -- which will be just as good at playing songs as any iPod that preceded it - will be more than just a video storage device. It will be a video player. No make that plural - players - a whole family of video-out iPods, some with flash storage and others with little disk drives." "Take your Video-out iPod to Blockbuster, drop it in a kiosk dock then download from the local xServe your choice of 50,000 movies. You can rent the movie or buy it and you can even choose the resolution, which may or may not affect the final price. Take the iPod home, drop it in the dock attached to your TV and watch the movie. H.264 decoding takes place in the iPod in hardware." 03-06 Editorial: Microsoft's Great Blunder (ABC News) "I think it can now be safely said, in hindsight, that Microsoft's entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision—and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe—the company ever made. I call it the Great Microsoft Blunder." 04-06 Four Search Engines Dominate (Time.com) "If you tallied up the number of searches executed any given week, the top four search engines combined — Google, Yahoo Search, MSN (and its new Live search) and Ask.com — would account for 98.3% of all searches in the U.S. Those top four engines clearly have a hold on the American public. But new search sites, perhaps inspired by the financial gains of Google and Yahoo, are still being introduced; as of last week, a total of 1,592 different search engines were visited by U.S. Internet users." 10-07 Graphite Reveals Quantum Effects (Scientific American) "Geim's team found that they [graphenes] do not slow down, even at very low temperatures. In essence, the electrons act as if they have no mass, or no 'rest mass,' to use the more precise phrase from special relativity. It also means that graphite--at least the two-dimensional variety--never stops conducting. Dubbing these pseudo-relativistic particles 'massless Dirac fermions,' the researchers also proved that they travel far faster than electrons in other semiconductors." 12-05 Hybrid Car Getting 80 Miles per Gallon (CNN News) "It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret -- a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car's high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel." 8-05 Hybrid Plug-in Car to Get Over 100 MPG (CNN News) "The EDrive system replaces the existing Prius NiMH battery and Toyota battery control computer with a larger Valence Saphion lithium-ion battery and a proprietary battery monitoring and control system developed by EnergyCS. The new system allows the Prius to be charged at home using a standard 110/120V home outlet. With the larger battery, the Prius can run in electric only 'EV' mode at lower speeds or when less power is needed. The result is EV driving and electrically boosted gasoline driving for the first 50 to 60 miles with a gasoline efficiency of 100 to 150mpg." 8-05 New Generation of DVD's (CNN News) "The electronics and entertainment industries are shaping up for the biggest format battle since the 'video wars' between VHS and Betamax to decide the future of DVD." 11-04 Science's Best Leaders (CBS News) "Embryonic stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang and the founders of Google, Inc., are among the 50 people named by Scientific American as having made the greatest contributions to science and technology in 2005." 11-05 Skycars (MSNBC News) Describes the current development of cars that can be driven in the air as an alternative form of transportation. 5-03 Technology News and Security Issues (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Provides news related to technology and security related to property rights, government surveillance, and more. 12-02 Usage of Internet in Homes (CNN) "About 60 percent of 2,000 people surveyed in the Pew Internet and American Life Project study said they used the Web regularly. Two-thirds of those had been online for three or more years." 12-02 Whose Internet Is It? (International Herald Tribune) "Some foreign governments are uncomfortable with the United States' controlling the nuts and bolts of the Internet. That is understandable. So much of the success of the global economy depends on its smooth functioning and the United States has not been a model of receptiveness to other nations' concerns in recent years. There may be a multilateral solution down the road, but right now it is in everyone's best interest to keep control of the Internet where it was founded, in America." 10-05 Wireless Coverage in the U.S. (ABC News) "Acess ABCNEWS.com's interactive Wi-Fi public hotspot map...." 06-06

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