As Los Angeles City Hall struggles with updating its antiquated technology systems, the city will donate or get rid of about 10,000 computers deemed unusable by city employees. . . Another 2,000 older city computers will also be donated. About 1,500 computers are being given [...]
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About 35 to 40 percent of the old computers will be refurbished and half of those will be given to low-income individuals and families. The other half will go to local nonprofits with public access centers that serve low-income areas. The program begins in the [...]
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The presiding Administrative Law Judge at the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday, Feb. 13 issued a proposed decision for approval of the merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Inc. but requiring significant public interest conditions that were requested by the California Emerging Technology [...]
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"Technology is a critical tool for our next generation to succeed in the global economy, and it starts with a computer and Internet at home," said Sunne Wright McPeak, the executive director of the California Emerging Technology Fund. "School-improvement initiatives, including Common Core Standards and [...]
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Comcast and other cable companies offering cheap Internet aren't benefiting enough low-income families, critics say. Comcast's Internet Essentials, the biggest, has reached 350,000 households -- or about 13 percent of those eligible, according to one estimate. Cox Communications Inc., which has the capacity to provide [...]
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Too many low-income people - including job seekers, older students, seniors and people with disabilities - can't afford full-priced Internet and often they can't reach their fullest potential without it," said Zach Leverenz, chief executive of the connectivity nonprofit EveryoneOn. On Wednesday, EveryoneOn, along with [...]
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The campaign urges Americans to tell the FCC to include social benefit clauses in the conditions of its approval of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner merger, which would hold “Comcast accountable for improving and expanding its existing affordable Internet offer, Internet Essentials.” Comcast is actively opposing [...]
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"We've got slower speeds at higher prices," said Sunne Wright McPeak, head of the California Emerging Technology Fund, a broadband advocacy group. "We're not competitive globally." Read More>>>
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Mario Garcia came to Damaris Antonio's tiny apartment bearing gifts most families in Silicon Valley have come to take for granted: a personal computer, Internet service and a secret password to a better life. "This is going to open up the world for you," Garcia [...]
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