Program Awards Computers To Boys & Girls Clubs

From News Channel 5:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - It's essential that all kids learn how to use a computer. On Monday, a group called Connected Tennessee gave even more students a chance to get hands-on-experience.

Computers 4 Kids "Preparing Tennessee's Next Generation for Success" program awarded the Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee with more than 150 brand new computers...

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Connected Tennessee gets more cash for mapping

By Geert De Lombaerde/Nashville Post.com

Technology nonprofit Connected Tennessee will soon get a $2.7 million check from Washington to continue its broadband mapping efforts in the state for three more years.

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Coming soon: more broadband for rural America

The Legal Ruralism

Vice President Joe Biden was just in Dawsonville, GA, a small rural town (pop. 619), to announce eighteen projects that will receive $183 million in federal funding (collectively) to bring high speed Internet service to rural places. Biden spoke at Impulse Manufacturing, a metalworks plant in north Georgia whose business has been stunted by the lack of a broadband network in that part of the state.

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Connected Nation launches mapping tool

By Kim Hart/The Hill's Hillicon Valley

Connected Nation introduced a new tool that makes its broaband maps interactive, designed to make it easier for policy makers to chart a course for broadband expansion projects.

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Connected Tennessee looks to bring broadband to Monroe

By Michael Thomason/The Advocate and Democrat

If the world is moving toward an online community, how important is it for you to reach that community quickly? Anyone who's on the Internet and has made the move from a dial up connection to a broadband one knows the difference in speeds. Just about everyone who's ever had a broadband connection will say they can't imagine having to go back to using a phone line for their Internet usage.

http://advocateanddemocrat.com/story/19042