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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Knight Foundation will hold “America’s Digital Inclusion Summit” on Tuesday, 9 March 2010 from 9:00 to 12:30 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC. There will be a videocast at the FCC Commission Room, 445 12th SW, Washington DC. If you prefer to watch the event from the comfort of your desk, bed, living room or favorite cafe, there will be a webcast. You must register, even for the webcast, at www.digisummit.org.

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The Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste (WIK) is holding a conference on “National strategies for ultrabroadband infrastructure deployment: Experiences and challenges” in Berlin on 26-27 April 2010 at the Radisson Blu Hotel. The conference brings together experts from Japan, Germany, Sweden, France and other countries to share their experiences in this field. Check out the program on the WIK website.

Excerpt from the conference website:

Many carriers in the world are today investing in high bit rate broadband infrastructure or are…

GigaOM Networks is holding its NewTeeVee Live 09 conference in San Francisco on 12 November 2009. This is a very timely conference as the boundaries between traditional TV, online video, and mobile video blur. Indeed, it’s no surprise that the core topic this year is “TV Everywhere.” On MuniWireless, we have written a lot about wireless video applications, not just in the public safety arena, but also in end user and enterprise applications. It’s impossible to plan a network today,…

Two afternoon panels Tuesday at the 4GWE conference here in Los Angeles made it clear that software developers, and not carriers, will drive innovation when it comes to 4G wireless applications of the future. The big, unanswered question is if, how and when two very different camps — developers and service providers — will work together in a fashion profitable for both camps.

There was more than a little animosity on display during the panel talks, and perhaps it was a…

FCC is hosting a Broadband Workshop on Technology Applications and Devices on 27 August 2009 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s a description of the workshop from the FCC site:

“The goal of this workshop is to explore trends in the use of and development of broadband applications and devices. The workshop will identify the technologies and packages of technology pieces that comprise the “killer app” trend-setting broadband applications driving broadband use. It will also identify these technologies’ requirements for broadband…

Mobilize 09 by GigaOM

The Future of the Mobile Web

The Age of Ultraband is coming — the era of an ulta fast, ultra connected mobile web.

Mobilize 09 is a one-day conference that brings together the thought leaders and practitioners of the mobile web and telecoms ecosystem for talk, demonstrations and debate. We’ll examine what it means to have wireless broadband speeds at the Gigabit scale and how the explosion of open platforms and hardware beyond traditional handsets create new opportunities, for…