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  1. D9: Is Apple about to upset the camera market?: MacRumors reports a rumor (heh) that Apple might be working on a... bit.ly/L3laGe
  2. D9: Don't take your laptop overseas: The FBI says that you might want to leave your laptop home when traveling o... bit.ly/L3laGa
  3. D9: Virginia wants data centers: The Virginia state legislature has passed bills providing new incentives to loc... bit.ly/NjJ8wP
  4. D9: Bandwidth caps change behavior, discourage use: Georgia Tech and Microsoft have released a study that confir... bit.ly/LObjmX
  5. D9: PeekYou tries to aggregate even more "private" public information: Peek You is an information aggregator ser... bit.ly/JSXiSC
  6. D9: No one can afford to have every service as a subscription: Adobe has announced Muse, "...a program for creat... bit.ly/JBpN9l
  7. D9: Round up of the Broadband Communities Summit 2012: If you were not able to attend the 2012 Broadband Communi... bit.ly/JfsZYB
  8. D9: Broadband and the walkable city: This short article on the weak housing market has big implications for "big... bit.ly/Kug6M0
  9. #bbcsum12 open access networks need the right infrastructure, starting with duct and fiber. Need equipment that supports multi- providers
  10. TeraSpan: 2500 feet a day of new fiber installed in a street using micro trenching.
  11. J Salter: 40% drop in telecom costs because of shared networks. Prices in the U.S barely budged because of duplicated networks #bbcsum12
  12. #bbcsum12 J Salter: wireless great if you want low reliability, low bandwidth, higher cost-- rural areas need fiber. Wireless for mobility
  13. #bbcsum12 James Salter: virtually impossible to work from home in rural America--not enough bandwidth at any price
  14. Grant county Public Utility District
  15. #bbcsum12 four multi-provider networks, four growing networks with lots of providers and customers
  16. Danville: open network brought commercial super computer facility to rural town #bbcsum12
  17. #bbcsum12 Danville started multi-provider open network to accelerate economic growth--lit transport using active Ethernet
  18. Grant PUD: open fiber has attracted server farms. One rural town has seven data center facilities. #bbcsum12
  19. Grant PUD: 23 providers on the open access multi-provider networks. #bbcsum12
  20. Metronet Zing: more than 30 providers and services on the network #bbcsum12