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In a study done on mobile phones, Dr. Nigel Bannister, a space scientist at the University of Leicester, has calculated that sending text messages using cellular phones is more costly than transmitting data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, it is more than 4 times more expensive!

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As many of you already know, Headzup's satirical cartoons have been known to traverse the globe within minutes of publication by being passed from cell phone to cell phone as forwarded picture messages. By carefully crafting our daily cartoons to "fly under the radar" of monopolistic mobile network operators, we are working to establish an early beachhead from which other progressive voices can be heard.

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Wireless Mesh May Be The Right Choice

The pentagon has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for Afghanistan and Iraq. San Francisco, California, has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for local broadband infrastructure. Ypsilanti, Michigan, has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for a nontechnical approach to local broadband infrastructure, monitored and operated by two fellows with laptops. Perth Amboy, New Jersey, has opted for wireless mesh technology as the right choice for their "Canopy" approach to local broadband infrastructure for their city.

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"He sees interactive tablet PCs replacing textbooks and notebooks in schools. Students will call up everything they need on their tablet PCs and write everything directly on the screen to be stored there. His daughter’s school, he said, is already using this technology."
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/news/31335">Free Press News</a>
Bill Gates’ Vision for the Future
From Washington Post, March 13, 2008
By Kim Hart
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A peer to peer company is testing out a streaming video service for all the NCAA tournament games, utilizing the wonders of p2p. Of course, if Comcast ruled the world, you would be forced to forego this new innovative service and stick with your always satisfying Comcast TV service, where they make the choices for you. Read more »

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Will You Be Ready on February 19, 2009?
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You Know They're Lying When They Say . . .

The next time your mayor (like Jim Erbs), or your governor (like Chester Culver), or anyone in your community (like Charles City, Iowa), says they're not technically savvy, and have to rely on their computer experts to brief them on whether they will be doing the right thing about bringing community broadband infrastructure to their citizens, try to be a little respectful (like I am) and not guffaw in their faces. These officials are under the impression that they're clued in, and the Public (that's you and me) are just plain stupid. Now, I guess it's all right if you go ahead and guffaw in their faces.
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Disruptive technology

Digital film is considered disruptive technology by some.  Polaroid announced it's finished with the instant film business as of February, 2008.  There's some disruptive technology events coming in the not too distant future.  One event that can't come soon enough, is the announcement by AT&T that they no longer will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent decentralized broadband infrastructure from spreading across our nation.
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I got myself 46 stories in 26 days of Feb, quite a few are in the suppressed news catagory. Some articles cover the gamut of ideals seen here at freepress. Most of them go back to the idea that there is a war on the middle class worker here in the US and around the entire globe. Take a look, let me know what you think.

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