The city of Boston, Massachusetts is officially launching a wireless hotzone in Grove Hall/Dudley Square neighborhood (by Roxbury and Dorchester). Click here to view the coverage map. The network is the result of a partnership among openairboston.net, Galaxy Internet (an Internet Service Provider) and BelAir Networks, an equipment vendor. According to the press release, since [...]

As I sit here at the United Nations attending a U.N. sponsored event entitled United Nations Meets Web 2.0 and ICT Entrepreneurs, I am reminded of the movie Groundhog Day where Bill Murray’s character, Phil Connors, is given innumerable days to put all the pieces together to ultimately win the affection of his co-anchor. I [...]

We are all wondering how Minneapolis’s Wi-Fi network is doing. Are people using it? What’s the user experience? Julio Ojeda-Zapata used US Internet’s service in various locations with a MacBook Air and an iPod Touch, and gives it good marks. He says: I was in! On my laptop, the wireless network worked dependably. Over lunch [...]

A New York think tank focused on broadband’s contributions to economic growth  has named the president and CEO of Cleveland’s OneCommunity “Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year for 2008.” OneCommunity is a nonprofit organization focused on using information technologies to improve the quality of life and economic development in Northeast Ohio communities. The  Intelligent Community Forum [...]