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The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office

matt buchanan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:20:00 EST

Today has been loaded with little metaphors. Dick Cheney leaving in a wheelchair, for instance, but another amazing one is comparing the White House website today with what it looked like when Bush took office.

Comparing the two makes it perfectly clear just how much has changed since 2001, and what we hope will come tomorrow: Flash, blogs, bigger monitors and broadband internet.

Oh wait. Well, you know, some such optimism about our first-ever connected president, technology and the future, yadda yadda. [White House, Wayback Machine via PatrickMcConnel via 10000Words via Editorialiste]

AT&T Bumps U-Verse Top Speed to 10Mbps, Verizon FiOS Chuckles

matt buchanan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:50:00 EST

We'd heard that AT&T's U-verse service was getting a new top tier of 10Mbps downstream, up from 6. It's official now, and still weak and girly (despite the "Internet Max" moniker) compared with Verizon's competing FiOS, which has up 50Mbps packages in some spots. FTTP FTW, guys. [AT&T]

AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspots Now Free for Broadband Subscribers

matt buchanan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:20:04 EST

Good news, AT&T broadband subscribers! You will soon get free access to AT&T's 10,000+ Wi-Fi hotspots, which is nice if you hang out mostly at Barnes & Noble, McDonald's, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and airports. [AT&T]

Verizon's Symmetrical FiOS Expands to Entire Coverage Area

Matt Buchanan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:45:42 EST

The imminent announcement about wider coverage of Verizon's symmetrical FiOS that was teased last week has arrived, and it's pretty nice: Everyone gets it. FL, MA, and RI get 20Mbps up and downstream like NY, NJ and CT, while the rest get 15Mbps both ways. They've also got an option for 30 down and 15 up, but the trailblazing tri-state area picks up a new 50 down/20 up package. No word on that 400Mbps Gozilla bandwidth, unfortunately. [Verizon]

World Is Ending: More Girls Than Guys Online

Matt Buchanan — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:30:52 EDT

The internet is now officially a place to pick up girls, since they outnumber guys on the internets in the US by over 6 million users. Of course, most of them look nothing like Scarlet Johansson, but we can't all be picky. Apparently, only 66 percent of them have heard of YouTube, however. Of course, the more pertinent question is, "are any of you reading Giz?" – Matt Buchanan

More Women Online [eMarketer via Slashdot]