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Editors' picks: Broadband stories around the Web

Fast Internet connections are essential to the future of an economy, but the U.S. has fallen behind other countries. These are some of the more interesting stories on the issue.

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Editors' picks: Broadband stories around the Web

July 28, 2004
Fast Internet connections are now essential to the future of an economy, but the United States has fallen behind countries such as South Korea in getting its citizens hooked up. These are some of the more interesting stories on the issue, which includes business, technology, education and politics. See News.com's "Digital Agenda" special series for more broadband coverage.
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Patients in the intensive care unit at Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento, Calif., are being monitored by doctors a mile away.
[The bigger picture]

Bells Are Catching Up in Battle for Broadband

The New York Times
The regional Bell phone companies, long dismissed as laggards stuck with declining fixed-line businesses, are coming back into favor again.
Cable Companies Profit From Demand for High-Speed Internet The New York Times
Cable broadband booms with 'the bundle' InternetWeek
Cable giants aiming for broadband gains TheStreet.com
Broadband by 2007? Don't hold your breath MSNBC
Democrats Push Broadband PC World
Can price cuts boost broadband? MSNBC
Wired broadband gets supercharged BBC News
Going beyond the call Forbes
Democratic platform focuses on outsourcing, broadband Infoworld
A golf clap for Bush's broadband plan CNN/Money
'New goals' needed for broadband BBC News
Broadband Policy Show Moves to House Internetnews.com
Here comes Broadband John Kerry BusinessWeek
Battling the 'Axis of Old' for Broadband TechNewsWorld
Independent ISPs Go to Washington PC World
FCC Chairman Starts Blog Broadbandreports.com
Reshuffling Spectrum Broadbandreports.com
Living la vida broadband

Broadband hits the road

eWeek
Opinion: Guy Kewney took a portable two-way satellite dish along on his vaction to Spain. The packing was the easy part.
Coffee, tea or broadband Forbes
Schoolgirl tests online gambling BBC.co.uk
Online banking at 30,000 feet The Telegraph
Bridging the digital divide, cheaply BusinessWeek
Broadband a boost for rural GPs The Border Mail
Cell service may be next wave in cruise technology Associated Press
Minding the Net CNN/Money
Hathaway Cable Internet ties up with site police India Infoline News
Hotels roll out the red digital carpet Reuters
Online film piracy 'set to rise' BBC News
Fraud charges cloud plan for 'wired' classrooms The Christian Science Monitor
Internet2 Crosses the Border Wired News
Do gamers have something to teach marketers? MediaPost Communications

Related sites:
Internet2 Project
Broadbandreports.com
Progress and Freedom Foundation
Dispatch from South Korea

State R&D Spending to Rise 9%

The Korea Times
The South Korean government plans to increase research and development (R&D) investment to 7.6 trillion won next year.
Broadband Operators Under Collusion Probe The Korea Times
The bandwidth capital of the world Wired
Protecting the family jewels The Economist
'I'll pick up the check--with my cell phone' BusinessWeek
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South Korean vote goes down to the wire for cybergeneration Lifestyle News
The all-seeing eyes Newsweek
Korea's KT has 375,000 Wi-Fi Subscribers Wi-Fi Networking News
Korea Blocks 40 Web Sites to Bar Spread of Victim's Video The Korea Times
New Services Await Telecom Subscribers The Korea Times
S Korea to boost web access via power lines Asia Times
KT Integrates Broadband with TV Telecoms Korea

Related sites:
Information from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Case studies from the International Telecommunications Union
Stanford Asia/Pacific Research Center's South Korea study