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U.S. Home Broadband Adoption Hits 63%

Monday, June 22, 2009

Readers of Minnov8 are skewed toward those highly interested or involved in internet and web-centric technology and services. As such, the latest findings of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project will be of significant interest. These findings illustrate a departure from the stagnation in home high-speed adoption rates that had prevailed from [...]

Broadband Perspective

Friday, April 24, 2009

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Mike O’Connor, urban representative on the Minnesota Ultra High Speed Task Force, recently interviewed the “father of the internet” Vint Cerf, as well as the head of Best Buy’s Geek Squad, Robert Stephens about their perspectives on broadband. After the jump, you can watch Mike’s interviews (broken in to chunks due to YouTube’s limits on [...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 14

Saturday, November 15, 2008

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We talk with Mike O’Connor from the MN Ultra High-Speed Task Force, a self-described community organizer, entrepreneur and tech-geek (blog here & bio here) turned business-leader (and, I might add, a gentlemen farmer turning his Wisconsin 420 acres back to its original pristine state). Mike also became moderately famous in Minnesota as one of the people [...]

FCC Broadband Ruling & MN Task Force

Friday, August 22, 2008

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If you’re reading Minnov8 you use, understand and undoubtedly rely upon the internet and your broadband connection. You may also be building a business or revenue stream upon the internet-as-a-platform for innovation, and as such you absolutely must stay close to net neutrality, FCC rulings and, most importantly, what our Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task [...]

The Railroad and Minnesota Broadband

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

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In 1868, the railroad bypassed Forestville, MN and the town died. The decline came slowly and over time my distant relatives, Thomas and Mary Meighen, saw the town dwindle, people move away, and they were left in an empty town with their farm and a general store attached to their home. Farm workers, paid in [...]

Tag Archive | "broadband"

U.S. Home Broadband Adoption Hits 63%

Broadband Perspective

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 14

FCC Broadband Ruling & MN Task Force

The Railroad and Minnesota Broadband

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

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