Always in the camera's eye
Updated 6/26/2006 11:55 PM ET
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Traffic cameras zoom in enough to capture your dangling cigarette.
Crime cameras see in the dark. Satellite images show whether your
car is in the driveway. Most Americans realize ubiquitous monitoring
Another growth driver for Second Cities is the decentralization of
work, driven in large part by new technologies. While more financial
deals are done now in big capitals like New York and London than ever
before, it's also clear that plenty of jobs in booming service
industries like
Bell Canada Launches Fibre Optic Internet Service for Consumers
Sympatico Optimax Offers Consistently Fast 10 or 16 Mbps Internet
Connection
MONTREAL, July 5 /CNW/ - Bell Canada today announced the
introduction of
Sympatico Optimax, a high speed Internet service for consumers
this is a huge investment by Intel Capital in Clearwire, a firm
started by wireless pioneer Craig McCaw to build out an infrastucture
for Mobile Wi-Max
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?
ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20060705005853newsLang=en
most interesting snippet:
The growing number of multinationals—now almost 200,000, up from
fewer than 20,000 in the 1980s
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13529488/site/newsweek/
How Population Lies
True, big cities no longer draw big numbers. But that doesn't mean
their power is
Mobile networks have a finite ability to handle calls. They are like
a motorway that can only hold a certain number of cars before
becoming congested.
There comes a point when there are too many people trying to access
a network, it just grinds to a halt, said Dr William Webb, a
researcher
