A collection of technology stories from the week worthy of some additional attention.
Amidst the wrangling around passing the financial bailout, the Congress passed the Broadband Data Improvement Act. Proponents hope it’s a first step towards increasing the percentage of broadband penetration in this country, a rate that continues to fall as compared to other advanced nations. From CircleID:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081992_broadband_data_improvement_act/
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft talked in London about a new operating system designed to work in a Cloud environment. From Kelly Fiveash of The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/steve_ballmer_windows_cloud/
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Wednesday stating that many federal agencies are not implementing financial management systems that conform to accepted accounting standards. From Government Executive’s NextGov:
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081002_7594.php
The credit crunch may have a chilling effect on the buildout of a national Wi-Max network by Clearwire. From Stacey Higganbotham of GigaOm:
http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/credit-crunch-could-stall-clearwire-network/
Johna Till Johnson of Network World compares the financial bailout to IPv6 — don’t think you’ll see that anywhere else!
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/100108-johnson.html?fsrc=rss-columns
And here’s a look back at a very busy September in tech, with the 10 most popular stories on ReadWriteWeb:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_hottest_stories_in_septemb.php