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Obama's broadband stimulus: Will wireless fit the bill? This week's 25 most-read stories

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Obama's broadband stimulus: Will wireless fit the bill?

Brad Reed By Brad Reed
Could wireless technologies offer the national broadband capabilities President Obama seeks? Although the government has allotted $7.2 billion for broadband deployment in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the bill does not specify what sort of technology the money will be spent on. Read full story

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1. Turning 5,000 discarded cell phones into art
2. 2009 Best of the Tests winners
3. 40% of geeks surveyed really work fewer than... say what?
4. Bring in the iPhone clones
5. Five fantastic open source tools for Windows admins
6. iPhone-controlled car to demo at Geneva Motor Show
7. 'I am Richer' app appears in Android store
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9. Microsoft has big growth plans even as economy limps
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12. 9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers' Favorite Pick-Up Lines
13. Conficker worm gets an evil twin
14. Just what has DARPA accomplished in recent decades?
15. Verizon Wireless takes aim at pesky 'Rabbit'
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17. Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero
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21. iPhone plagues Princeton with flaky Wi-Fi problems
22. Juniper's answer to Cisco in the data center: Stratus Project
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02/26/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Turning 5,000 discarded cell phones into art
  2. Verizon Wireless takes aim at pesky 'Rabbit'
  3. IPhone plagues Princeton with flaky Wi-Fi problems
  4. New Google dashboard provides downtime information
  5. 40% of geeks surveyed really work fewer than ... say what?
  6. Microsoft has big growth plans even as economy limps
  7. Juniper's answer to Cisco in the data center: Stratus Project
  8. Juniper joins top-of-rack switch fray
  9. Top 10 removable media security incidents
  10. Nortel announces more layoffs
  11. Microsoft TechFest: Commute UX dialog system for in-car infotainment


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