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AT&T Joins Fray for Cheaper Calls Through the Web
By MATT RICHTEL
Published: December 11, 2003
The battle over the future of telephone service will break wide open
today with an announcement from AT&T that it plans to offer unlimited
long-distance and local calling using Internet technology at a lower
cost than conventional phone service.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/technology/11PHON.html
Phone-a-thon raises more than $5,500 for scholars
December 11, 2003
STERLING GRAY
EDUCATION WRITER
The North Syracuse Dollars for Scholars program raised more than
$5,500 in pledges during its phone-a-thon.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
3/107096268351960.xml
Grant to put schools online
December 11, 2003
By Peter Lyman
Washington bureau
Syracuse schoolchildren will be able to explore cyberspace from their
classrooms after the city school district receives a federal grant of
$7.74 million to update its computer system.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
13/107113563727660.xml
World of tomorrow: High technology requires high technology training
By JANICE BUANNO-BOYLES, For The Leader-Herald
When high tech moves in, will Fulton County be ready? Area experts
think - and hope - the county's attributes will make it so.
http://www.leaderherald.com/business/story/1211202003_bizbusiness1207.
asp
Wrong-number woes mean cash for Tioga
BY KARA M. CONNERS
Press & Sun-Bulletin
OWEGO -- Tioga County will make $15,000 by giving up a toll-free
number that has been confused with one for a West Coast air purifier
manufacturer.
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne121103s52406.shtml
Scout expands library's Web site
By KATHLEEN DOOLEY, Staff writer
First published: Thursday, December 11, 2003
The Round Lake Library has a new Web site thanks to Robert Litzke,
15, a senior at Shenendehowa High School, who designed the Web site
for his Eagle Scout project.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=197987&category=REGION&newsdate=12/11/2003
Qwest to Offer Residential Voice Over IP
By KARREN MILLS AP Business Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Qwest Communications International Inc. is
becoming the first Baby Bell to offer residential Internet phone
service, embracing a technology that could undermine the traditional
phone business.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/high_tech/1700/12-11-
2003/20031211013001_04.html
Mission seeks old computers
December 10, 2003
The Rescue Mission is looking for any working CPUs that have at least
a Pentium processor or were purchased in 1997 or later.
http://www.syracuse.com/technology/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
0/1071049100311150.xml
WTEN got story first, and stayed with it
By MARK McGUIRE, Staff writer
First published: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
WTEN Ch. 10 was the first local station to break into regular
programming Tuesday afternoon with the dramatic story of the
overturned cargo ship at the Port of Albany, staying with coverage
into its afternoon and early evening newscasts.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=197668&category=REGION&newsdate=12/10/2003
Cornell's transmission invention shows promise
December 10, 2003
By Rebecca James
Staff writer
The three Cornell researchers work in nanotechnology - the art and
science of making things that are far smaller than a human hair.
Their invention, a tiny, micromechanical oscillator, is much smaller
than those now used in electronics.
http://www.syracuse.com/technology/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
0/107096268151960.xml
Time Warner to add 40 jobs
December 10, 2003
By Tim Knauss
Staff writer
Time Warner Cable's plan to provide phone service over its cables
will bring more than 40 jobs to Central New York.
http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business
-4/1071049258311151.xml
Library sets hearing on Internet use
12/10/2003
The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library will hold a public hearing
from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday in the Central Library to get feedback on
its Internet Safety and Acceptable Use Policy.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031210/8052967.asp
Global exits bankruptcy
Richard Mullins
Staff writer
(December 10, 2003) — Global Crossing Ltd. emerged from bankruptcy
Tuesday evening, with plans to carefully rebuild the company with
Rochester as a significant center of its worldwide data and telephone
network.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1210story021123_business.s
html
Wright pushes to kill cell phone dead zones
December 10, 2003
By Erik Kriss
ALBANY NOTEBOOK
Sen. James Wright called representatives of the wireless telephone
industry before his Energy and Telecommunications Committee in Albany
on Monday and asked what they plan to do about the dead zones in
rural areas, the busy signals in big cities and the lack of cell
phone service for many of his North Country constituents.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
12/1066379927271580.xml
Delhi becomes Internet model for rural areas
Tech project picks village to go wireless
BY RYAN DEUEL
Press & Sun-Bulletin
DELHI -- The Village of Delhi's offices, as well as other nonprofit
and municipal offices, soon will have access to state-of-the-art
wireless Internet technology.
http://www.pressconnects.com/wednesday/news/stories/ne121003s51682.sht
ml
Rural areas seek cell phone service
Alexis Grant
albany bureau
(December 9, 2003) — ALBANY — Cell phone companies and consumer
protection groups went head-to-head before a Senate energy committee
Monday over whether the state should force the wireless industry to
provide service in rural areas and improve it in cities.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/1209T92JHIN_03rural09_news.sh
tml
Lawmakers want cell-phone companies to improve services
Regulations could follow if firms don't comply
BY ALEXIS GRANT
Albany Bureau
ALBANY -- Cell-phone companies and consumer protection groups went
head-to-head before a Senate energy committee Monday over whether the
state should force the wireless industry to provide service in rural
areas and improve it in cities.
http://www.pressconnects.com/tuesday/news/stories/ne120903s51499.shtml
http://www.stargazettenews.com/local/Tulocal13.html
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20031209/localnews/257.ht
ml
Time Warner to Use Cable Lines to Add Phone to Internet Service
By MATT RICHTEL
Published: December 9, 2003
Time Warner Cable said yesterday that it had signed a deal with
Sprint and MCI to help it send telephone calls over lines once used
only to deliver television programming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/09/technology/09PHON.html?hp
Book-scanning uncovered
A Victor man has invented a machine to duplicate bound pages.
By Richard Mullins
STAFF WRITER
(December 8, 2003) — Lotfi Belkhir, a one-time Xerox Corp.
researcher, has invented a machine he says can do just that,
automatically scanning books at a pace of 1,200 bound pages per hour,
handling even rare volumes gently.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1208EC2J839_Kirtas08_busin
ess.shtml
Frontline Communications Corp.'s bid for survival
By JULIE MORAN ALTERIO
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: December 8, 2003)
A tiny, unprofitable Internet service provider from Rockland County
merges with a Mexican phone card company 20 time bigger — and is
alive to tell the tale, so far.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/120803/d0108cpfrontlinesto.html
Libraries play role in multigenerational education
By OMAR AQUIJE, The Leader-Herald
GLOVERSVILLE - Through the years, as society has continued to evolve
thanks to enhancements in technology, libraries have been forced to
adapt while maintaining the same purpose.
http://www.leaderherald.com/news/story/127202003_new03_libraries1207.a
sp
Cutting the Cord
By BOB TEDESCHI
Published: December 7, 2003
Now that the Internet addiction has gripped much of the population,
tourist spots are teeming with people exhibiting signs of either e-
mail withdrawal or vacation denial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/travel/07wifi.html
Verizon workers call it quits
Many are choosing uncertainty of the job market over upheaval in the
workplace
By ALLAN DRURY (Westchester) Journal News
First published: Sunday, December 7, 2003
Seduced by a lucrative severance package and frustrated by a new, icy
corporate culture, Bob Ferguson decided in November that it was time
for him to cut the cord with Verizon Communications Inc. after 35
years.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=196553&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=12/7/2003
Phone companies cut prices on faster Internet service
BY DAVID KOENIG
Associated Press Phone firms cut broadband prices
The Associated Press
(December 7, 2003) — Phone companies are still playing catch-up with
the cable guys, who control about two-thirds of the rapidly growing
market for high-speed Internet service. Phone companies are turning
to price cutting to close the gap.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1209T92JH9K_3broad09_busin
ess.shtml
http://www.pressconnects.com/sunday/business/stories/bu120703s50968.sh
tml
Top executive at AboveNet leaving company
By THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: December 6, 2003)
The president and chief executive of AboveNet Inc., the White Plains
telecommunications company that is trying to build its business after
emerging from bankruptcy in September, will leave Dec. 31.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/120603/d0106burbs.html
Free-bay connects community
Web site puts teachers in touch with donors of free classroom
materials
By ANNE JU
Journal Staff
Instead of buyers and sellers, www.freebayforus.org allows Ithaca
school teachers to request classroom materials they need -- from
books to pencils to tennis balls. People can either respond to the
requests or post offers.
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20031205/localnews/764982
.html
Cellphone Number Transfer Hits a Snag
By MATT RICHTEL
Published: December 5, 2003
Tens of thousands of customers have had to wait several days for
their old numbers to work on their new phones and some have waited
more than a week - even though switching a number is supposed to take
only a few hours.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/technology/05phone.html
P.O. boxes keeping 911 off the hook
By DENISE A. RAYMO, Staff Writer
MALONE — More than 4,000 Franklin County residents have not changed
their address to reflect the new Enhanced 911 emergency-response-
system locators.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2003/12_2003/120520035.htm
Enhanced forecasts now available for cities, towns
Weather Watch
By DAVE NICOSIA
As of Oct. 1, the National Weather Service officially entered a new
era: an era of providing digital and graphical forecast data for
every part of the country. From the national level all the way down
to the city or town that you live in, forecasts are available.
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20031205/localnews/764996
.html
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