I don't often blog about newspaper articles. But this one just caught my attention right off, when I saw its subject: African Internet connection in remote, tiny villages that is supported by Google. Check it out.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Bravo! A NYTimes article
I don't often blog about newspaper articles. But this one just caught my attention right off, when I saw its subject: African Internet connection in remote, tiny villages that is supported by Google. Check it out.
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I am heartened to see Google supporting this kind of endeavor. Give a society television and it will crawl up out of the dark ages. Give a society the internet and it accelerates the ascent.
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What Convergence? TV's Hesitant March to the Net
By MATT RICHTEL
While there is movement by chip makers to spur a new
generation of TVs with full browser capability, TV
manufacturers simply do not seem to want it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/technology/internet/16chip.html?th&emc=th
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To which he added:
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Once the chips are out and going into the new TVs there will be a landslide movement in that direction. People will not want to buy a new TV that does not have the internet capability. That's my opinion. ... Gene
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