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New towers provide free Internet connections in poorer Richmond neighborhoods Greenfield Daily Reporter RICHMOND, California — Many residents of one San Francisco Bay area city are online for the first time thanks to a grant-funded program to expand free high-speed Internet to low-income areas. The Contra Costa Times reports (http://bit.ly/1psxpQF ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook CEO Defends WhatsApp Buy, Urges Free Internet Access THISDAY Live As part of making that happen, Zuckerberg said he wanted to prove the business model of operators in emerging markets offering basic internet – as well as Facebook – for free. Why are the next two billion not on the internet?, he asked. “The reason is ... See all stories on this topic »

Get Free WiFi From Space Soon! Indiatimes.com A US company is planning to build an 'Outernet' — a global network of cube satellites broadcasting internet data to all the people on the planet — for free. The idea is to offer free internet access to all people, regardless of location, bypassing ... See all stories on this topic »

The new Knight News Challenge focuses on strengthening the free and open ... Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard Today Knight is launching the latest installment of its Knight News Challenge, and this round will focus on a subject on many minds these days: how best to support a free and open Internet. Specifically, Knight is asking people how they would answer ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Fiber: Fast, but not free to cities Charlotte Observer Imagine an Internet so fast that your middle-schoolers won't clog the home network playing Minecraft. Imagine data speeds so robust that all the basketball fans in the office can stream March Madness games, without lags. Not that we would, but still ... See all stories on this topic »

Internet price war launched in France as consolidation looms GlobalPost The three telecoms and Internet operators are already licking their wounds from a price war between their mobile telephone units, which has become increasingly combative afterFree launched two years ago with market-grabbing cheap deals. Shares in ... See all stories on this topic »

Pilot program bridges digital divide in Richmond abc7news.com The Internet towers receive high-speed Internet signals from Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based non-profit digital library providing free online access to books, movies and music. Internet Archive has a 40-foot tower installed on Florida Avenue ... See all stories on this topic »

How the “Internet of Things” Will Become as Mainstream as Dropbox MIT Technology Review According to booth-manning reps at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, IBM is announcing an “Internet of Things Cloud” with free enrollment of the first 10 connected gadgets—whether washing machines or parking meters. It's the kind of teaser more ... See all stories on this topic »

Internet Explorer 'SnowMan' zero-day spreading: Use alternative or patch with ... InfoWorld Internet Explorer 'SnowMan' zero-day spreading: Use alternative or patch with KB. Two weeks ago FireEye discovered a sophisticated iframe infection on the VFW website that leverages (yet another) "use after free" security hole in Internet Explorer 9 ... See all stories on this topic »

Marsha Blackburn says feds should keep hands off Internet The Tennessean “Net neutrality means an Internet that enables and protects free speech. It means thatInternet service providers should provide us with open networks — and should not block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those ... See all stories on this topic »