Broadband Via Electric Lines Could Challenge DSL, Cable
by Gavin O'Malley

PROVIDING BROADBAND SERVICE THROUGH ELECTRIC power lines is a potentially competitive alternative to high-speed Internet connections via cable and DSL, but infrastructure and regulatory issues loom, said participants in a conference call yesterday held by the New Millennium Research Council, a Washington, D.C.-based lobby and policy group. If broadband-over-power-line service were offered for $30 per month, estimated Barry Goodstadt, vice president and senior consultant for Harris Interactive, it would reach 13 million households and present a $4.5 million revenue opportunity over the next three to five years.

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RSS: News You Choose
by Sharon Housley

Why is RSS So Magical? The answer is simple: RSS is news you choose.

How Does it Work?
Publishers and webmasters provide content and news in an RSS feed. Users view the content of interest in an RSS reader or news aggregator. The aggregator or reader contains the collection of feeds that are of interest to the user. As the RSS feed is updated the content in the reader or aggregator updates with the new information. At any point, users can remove a feed from their aggregator or reader and no longer receive information from that source. Ultimately, the user is choosing the news and content they wish to view. [Read More!]