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From NewsScan:

BROADBAND USE UP, BUT U.S. STILL LAGS FAR BEHIND [In a related story, AOL has indicated it will cease providing broadband service in in the entire southeastern United States in January.] A Bush administration report, titled "A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age," notes that the number of Americans using broadband Internet connections doubled between 2001 and late 2003, but the country as a whole still lags far behind many other nations, including South Korea, Taiwan and Canada. The report also points to a widening gap between the digital haves and have-nots. Only 25% of rural households have a broadband connection, compared with 40% for urban areas, and only one-in-seven blacks and fewer than one-in-eight Hispanics lives in a household with high-speed Internet service. "It shows we continue to have a significant divide between urban and rural America in the infrastructure of the 21st century," says Gregory L. Rohde, a top telecom advisor during the Clinton administration. Significant numbers of rural Americans complained there were no broadband services available where they live. "This is lousy," says Harris Miller, head of the Information Technology Association of America. "We're just not keeping up with our competitors. We're not even keeping up with countries we don't consider competitors. It's not acceptable." (AP 23 Nov 2004) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041123/D86HL5SG0.html> [Here's the original AOL story from 12 days ago.] AOL WINDS DOWN BROADBAND SERVICE Earlier this year America Online stopped signing up new broadband customers -- and now it's telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they'll need to find a new broadband carrier by mid-January, or face being moved to dial-up service. Broadband customers affected by this decision are residents of Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. (AP/Los Angeles Times 12 Nov 2004) <http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology10nov11,1,1067276.story? coll=sns-ap-toptechnology> [and in a related story] TELCOS THREATENED BY MUNICIPAL WIFI [Telcos fight back with army of well-paid lobbyists] Dozens of municipalities around the country are installing WiFi networks in order to provide citizens with low- or no-cost wireless Internet access -- a phenomenon that has raised the ire of large telephone and cable companies, who see their lucrative broadband businesses eroding. In response, telcos and cable companies are pushing states to pass legislation that could make such municipal networks illegal. Last week, after intensive lobbying by Verizon, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a bill with a deeply buried provision that would make it illegal for any "political subdivision" to provide to the public "for any compensation any telecommunications services, including advanced and broadband services within the service territory of a local exchange telecommunications company operating under a network-modernization plan." Verizon is the local exchange operator for most of Pennsylvania and is planning a major fiber-optic cable rollout. Similar bills have passed in Utah, Louisiana and Florida. Critics say the telco giants' clout is stifling broadband expansion in the U.S., but the telcos argue it's unfair for them to have to compete against local governments, which have easy access to capital and pay no taxes. (Wall Street Journal 23 Nov 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110116864041881375,00.html> (sub req'd) [and even greater threats by VOIP] KAZAA OFFERS FREE VOIP CALLS The latest version of Kazaa software, distributed by Sharman Networks, incorporates Internet telephony software from Skype Technologies, which is also owned by Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. That means while people are downloading their music they can also make free online calls anywhere in the world. (Reuters/CNet.com 22 Nov 2004) <http://news.com.com/Kazaa+offers+unlimited+free+Internet+phone+calls/2110-7 352_3-5463440.html> MAKE INCISION HERE: RFID TAG USED IN SURGERY [Tired of hearing they cut off the wrong leg?] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved use of radio frequency ID (RFID) tags to ensure that physicians perform the right surgery on the right patient. Manufactured by SurgiChip Inc., the radio tag is encoded with the patient's name and the site, type, and date of the surgery; the patient helps stick the adhesive-backed tag near the site of the surgery and workers in the hospital's operating room scan the tag to compare that information with the patient's chart. (AP/San Jose Merury News 19 Nov 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10226986.htm> [more on RFIDs] TRACKING SCHOOLCHILDREN WITH COMPUTER TAGS A number of school districts around the country are implementing systems that use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to track the whereabouts of schoolchildren. In Spring, Texas, the district's 28,000 students will be given ID cards with RFID chips in them. Card readers on the district's school busses track where and when students get on and off the busses and send that information to police and school administrators. In the event that a child is reported missing, authorities would use the system's data to help locate the child, whether the student was kidnapped or simply went to another student's home after school. A school district in Buffalo, New York, uses a similar system at the doors of the school to track attendance. Despite teething problems of the systems, not to mention concerns over cards that are lost or traded by mischievous students, supporters said they offer unique capacities to track students and reassure worried parents. Critics of the systems, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said they elevate security concerns to the level of paranoia and represent an invasion of privacy. New York Times, 17 November 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/technology/17tag.html THE COMING BATTLE: GOOGLE VERSUS MICROSOFT Already competing against one other in Web search, free e-mail, and techniques for searching individual computers, Google and Microsoft are drifting into a war over control of the user experience now dominated by Microsoft's Windows operating system. Industry-watchers say that Google could make people less dependent on storing information on their Microsoft-powered PCs and more dependent on free Web-based e-mail and search functions accessible anywhere from any device regardless of operating system, and analyst David Garrity says the real question is whether computer buyers may one day simply decide that they no longer even need a Microsoft operating system. 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From Edupage

BRITISH LIBRARY GOES WIRELESS Responding to reports showing strong demand for Internet access, officials at the British Library have announced the implementation of a wireless network in the library's reading rooms, auditorium, restaurants, and outdoor area. A study recently showed that 86 percent of library patrons carry laptops and that 16 percent came to the library to use it as a business center. Many visitors routinely leave the library to check their e-mail at a local cafe, and surveys showed that many people would like to check their e-mail, as well as access the library catalog, while in the library. The service will cost users 4.50 British pounds per hour or 35 pounds per month. A pilot program has been available in the library since May, and usage logs indicate that in that time, the network has seen 1,200 sessions per week, making it the busiest hot spot in London. BBC, 18 November 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4020241.stm [Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of statistics will realize that 86% of any population is not likely to be carrying laptops. . . this very strange looking statistic is due to the fact that this is not a library in the sense most of use. It is not open to the public, other than a few rooms that look more like a museum, which is what it really is, by most definitions. One actually has to pass a test to gain entrance. . .to be a "reader." Not only do 86% of the "readers" bring laptops, but they are incredibly "well-heeled" even by London standards, as I observed myself when visiting there last month.] COLLEGE BLOCKS HOTMAIL AND YAHOO TO FIGHT SPAM Frustrated with the problem of spam and unable to afford antispam software packages, officials at Guam Community College have implemented a policy that blocks all mail from Hotmail or Yahoo--favorites with spammers--from being delivered to college e-mail accounts. Exceptions are made for return addresses that are on the institution's list of legitimate addresses. Currently, the college only provides e-mail accounts to faculty and staff, and many students rely on Hotmail or Yahoo accounts to keep in touch with faculty or to turn in assignments, prompting many complaints about the policy. The policy has resulted in significantly less spam, and the college's technical staff are spending much less time dealing with the spam that does get through. Still, many members of the faculty do not support the policy, saying that whatever benefits it provides do not outweigh the problems it causes. Joe St. Sauver of the University of Oregon Computing Center and an expert on spam issues said the tactic of blocking Hotmail and Yahoo has been tried before but that most institutions dropped it because they were not happy with the results. Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 November 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i13/13a03101.htm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** *Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media Sir Mark Thatcher, son of "The Iron Lady," British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is finally being forced to answer questions in open court concerning charges that he was planning a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea, a country rich in oil. The Cape High Court ruled today that he must face court tomorrow [or the next day, depending on sources], and he may be extradited later from South Africa to face more direct charges in Equatorial Guinea. This ruling has finally come after months of legal wrangling since his arrest last August in his suburban Cape Town home. Dozens of mercenaries and planners have been arrested in Equatorial Guinea and in Zimbabwe, where one of Sir Mark's friends has already been convicted. In earlier arrests on March 7, about 70 men were taken at the Harare airport, mostly South Africans led by former SAS officer Simon Mann, a graduate of Eton. Most of these have been charged with violations of South Africa's foreign military assistance act and other charges are pending in other countries. It would appear all involved deny any participation in the failed coup attempt, including Severo Moto, who mysteriously appeared in nearby Mali just before the coup attempt, apparently ready to be the new leader if the right-wing network of businessmen had been successful in taking over the country. Mr. Moto has been reported to have been involved in several previous such failed coup attempts, including one in which he was arrested aboard a boat containing military supplies for one of the previous events in 1997. Government sources in Spain confirm Mr. Moto's involvement in these events over the years. Apparently one of Thatcher's friends has already been convicted in Zimbabwe. "Clockwork Orange" Medical Plan Finally Outlawed By Chinese The Chinese announced that they will no longer be supporting medical testing on hundreds of human beings in which they remove or disable the portions of the brain receptive to certain drugs. This technology was inherited from Russia, where no such annoucement has been heard. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK

From Jim Carrey:

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