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Lander, WY (July 1st) – Wyoming’s local Internet provider, Wyoming.com announced today that they have begun the next phase of expansion for upgraded Internet service in Lander and the outlying areas. “The Lander community has been asking for faster Internet for quite some time, and we are very excited to be able to offer upgraded […]

How’s your Latin? Do the words “caveat emptor” mean anything to you? I only had one year of Latin in high school, but fortunately, I remember those two words translate to “buyer beware.” Sometimes the seller needs to beware, too. One of the many worthwhile features of being a Lancaster Farming subscriber is the ability […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Besides, roads and bridges, another part of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill will focus on providing high-speed internet services across the country, especially for rural areas, which could have a major impact on some of the parishes in the state. The busiest restaurant in Clinton, Louisiana is Johnny B’s Café, […]

Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together preserve the intellectual products of human civilization—fits Clarke’s observation well. In Steve Jobs’s words, “it just works,” as readily as clicking, tapping, or speaking. And every bit […]

MOSCOW, July 1 (Reuters) – Britain-based tech company OneWeb sent 36 satellites into orbit on Thursday, a landmark launch it said would pave the way for it to begin rolling out a commercial internet service in swathes of the northern hemisphere this year. OneWeb, which has more than 200 satellites in orbit as part of […]

VERNON, Texas (KAUZ) – Tari Lancaster, a Vernon resident who was having trouble with internet services from her internet service provider Suddenlink, has received some good news. We previously reported Lancaster had been experiencing internet connectivity issues with Suddenlink. Thursday, Lancaster said she received a call from Suddenlink. They will give her a refund for […]

A telephone used to be just a phone until it became a smartphone. A watch, once simply a timepiece, can now be a smartwatch. A refrigerator — remember the “icebox”? — can be smart, too. Any gizmo is “smart” as long as it’s connected to the internet — the Internet of Things. Even adult diapers. […]

Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Special Rapporteur Clement Voule warned that shutdowns are now “lasting longer” and “becoming harder to detect”. The tactics were not limited to authoritarian regimes either, he insisted. “Shutdowns have been observed in long-established democracies and more recent democracies alike, in line with broader trends of democratic recession across the world,” […]

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. We’re more than a year into Zoom work calls, Netflix marathons and most of us being online more for everything. And the internet has not melted into goo, as some experts feared at the onset of the […]

Gov. Tony Evers’ task force on broadband has released a report outlining strategies for making high-speed internet available to every home, business and institution in the state by 2025. Among its recommendations, the report calls for increased funding for the state broadband expansion grant program, establishing a program to help low-income families afford service, increased consumer […]