Emtec Announces Appointment of Troy Anderson to Board of Directors

Emtec Announces Appointment of Troy Anderson to Board of Directors

Post Views: 124 Emtec, Inc., a global IT consultancy, today announced the appointment of Troy Anderson to the Company’s board of directors effective immediately. Mr. Anderson brings 20+ years of executive leadership experience managing and transforming innovative teams in the areas of product development and design, engineering, AI, and data science. He has a successful…

GWI, Arctaris Impact and FAME Partner to Build Fiber Broadband Networks in 5 Maine Opportunity Zone Communities

GWI, Arctaris Impact and FAME Partner to Build Fiber Broadband Networks in 5 Maine Opportunity Zone Communities

Post Views: 118 Great Works Internet Partners (“GWI”), Arctaris Impact Investors, LLC (“Arctaris”), and the Finance Authority of Maine (“FAME”) announced plans today to build new fiber broadband networks for five communities in Maine, including South Portland, Millinocket, East Millinocket, Medway and Belfast. The projects are made possible through a partnership with FAME, which is…

Can I offer you a nice meme in these trying times?

Can I offer you a nice meme in these trying times?

Post Views: 166 Myrick, a professor of communications at Pennsylvania State University, started thinking about how memes about this stressful time period were percolating through the internet and our collective consciousness. She and her colleagues set up an experiment to study whether these pandemic memes helped us cope with stress during quarantine—and their results were…

Your website could be doing the environment dirty. Here’s how to clean it up.

Your website could be doing the environment dirty. Here’s how to clean it up.

Post Views: 128 No trees are seemingly cut down every time you Google something or read a social media post on your phone or laptop. But websites alone do create emissions—internet usage is responsible for almost four percent of global emissions. That might not seem like a lot, but its equivalent to about the same…

Verizon wants to use Amazon satellites to bring broadband to rural areas

Verizon wants to use Amazon satellites to bring broadband to rural areas

Post Views: 142 Amazon and Verizon are attempting to get affordable broadband access to rural and remote locations around the globe by looking beyond the Earth’s borders. The companies announced their “strategic collaboration” in a press release Tuesday, which will pair the mobile provider’s existing infrastructure with that of Project Kuiper, Amazon’s proposed constellation of…

How to ask Google to remove images of kids from its search results

How to ask Google to remove images of kids from its search results

Post Views: 106 Before we start, know that this guide will only cover non-explicit images. Google has a way to report explicit content that’s abusive toward children, but it involves reporting the content directly to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children or to one of many organizations across the globe. To be clear,…

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

Post Views: 113 It also means that the company will report on their business as two different operating segments: one for their family of apps, and one for their work on future platforms (Reality Labs will be the name for that segment). The company intends to trade under a new stock ticker, MVRS, starting December…

The Future of Roller Skating is Here

The Future of Roller Skating is Here

Post Views: 110 the new multi-platform, digital streaming service targeted specifically to roller skating consumers, launched this month to the global roller skating community. The U.S. accounts for nearly 12 million roller skating participants, and Roller Planet’s initial offering provides them exclusive access to original produced content. As the media rights holder, Roller Planet will…

The US is making its biggest investment in broadband internet ever

The US is making its biggest investment in broadband internet ever

Post Views: 104 “This is something both sides of the political aisle have talked about for a long time,” says Kevin DeGood, director of infrastructure policy at the Center for American Progress. “This bill is in line with the sort of rough estimates of what it will take to try to bring broadband internet to…