If ISPs won't wire the rural areas, soon car dealers will do it. The AP has a story that says that Chrysler is expected to announce on Thursday that the LLC vehicles it ships next year will be capable of becming their own hotspots. The option will be available as part of the company's "uconnect" system for most 2009 Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep models. It will be a dealer-installed option that works over cell links and uses a technology that competes with Microsoft's Sync that Ford will roll out in in its 2009 models.
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The proposed government "free" Internet
First off, let's just squash this bogus "Web 2.0" label. There is no "Web 2.0" outside of marketing hype produced by web authors, and those who mistake the hype for an actual completely separate network. It's the same web, just accesed using newer web page design techniques.
Second, Mr. George Lucas addressed this conference with a proposal to create a "third Internet". It's nothing more than a call for web censorship. Who is going to be tasked with determining who will provide content for, and who will be able to access, this proposed other government-provided "free" Internet, and who will be prohibited from accessing the old free-market Internet? Beware!
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