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Microsoft expands its Airband internet access project to major cities
It aims to lower broadband service costs and help people obtain devices and digital skills.
Microsoft will help expand rural broadband access in Vermont
Microsoft is continuing to help more people in rural areas gain broadband access through its Airband Initiative. It's teaming up with Vermont to expand connectivity there, while offering students access to digital skills and computer science programs.
Microsoft says the rural broadband divide is worse than you think
Politicians and regulators like to say they're increasing access to broadband in rural areas, but the reality might be far less rosy. Microsoft has conducted a study showing that far fewer Americans have broadband access than FCC data suggests. While the FCC is currently focused on availability and notes that 24.7 million people can't get fast internet service, Microsoft determined that 162.8 million people don't use broadband service, 19 million of them in rural areas. The gaps are sometimes glaring. In Washington's Ferry County, only 2 percent of people have broadband where the FCC claims it's available to the entire region.
Bangin' on some air drums with the Wiimote
While most folks have been using the Wiimote for playing games on their Wii, as well as some others hacking the console itself and hooking up the Wiimote to a PC, no use for the Wiimote has been so far out of the box as to live in a different country alltogether, perhaps making a living as a cobbler. Well, that has changed and the cobbler has been presented in the form of an air drumming hack (boringly enough, for the PC).The program converts Wiimote motions into keyboard notes, which are then, by way of another program, changed into drum sounds. While the whole thing could be considered quite the painful ordeal, installing and opening multiple programs, etc., credit is due for such an effort. Could we soon see an entire air band hack used and filmed on You Tube?Video of it in motion is embedded into the post, past the jump.[Via Joystiq]
