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Archive for April 5th, 2007

Senator Clinton introduces the Rural Broadband Initiatives Act.

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Don’t you just love it when politicians try and get creative? So this is what you think it is: A government-sponsored ‘guarantee’ to make sure that all the folks in the mid-west and other apparently remote and Internet-hungry areas have ‘affordable’ broadband access. And Clinton gets to take credit because she’s the one championing this […]

Nerd News Today; 4/5

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Kiss that VGA port buh-bye. The VESA org just gave official blessing to the DisplayPort 1.1 spec. Gonna replace VGA and DVI ports for flat panel displays. Faster, supports all those hi-def bits, and has a smaller physical plug, too. Also integrates that Blu-Ray DRM stuff, unfortunately. (Source: BetaNews)

Wikipedia founder dissing…Wikipedia? One of the co-founders […]