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Faster computers, broadband connections and free public Wi-Fi are
taking the fun out of snow days, reports USA TODAY. The federal
government was shut down for the second day in a row and many
offices were empty in the nation’s snowbound capital, but
work continued — in homes across the
D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region. It showed just how [...]
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100 Mbps Broadband
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Commission’s National Broadband Plan, due March 17, is
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connectivity in the United States, reports arstechnica.com. This
month, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski declared that the agency wants
260 million Americans hooked up to 100 Mbps broadband by 2020. Not
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Government Getting More Social
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Today's Telecommuting Jobs
As promised, instead of holding the list of work at home
telecommuting jobs for a week I'm going to start posting them as a
I see them. Here are three telecommuting jobs I found today:
ColdFusion Web Developer - Telecommute Provider Relations
Representative (Telecommute - Chicago, IL Area) Travel Bloggers
(Work from Home) These jobs will be added to the next weekly
telecommuting jobs update on Tuesday, February 23rd. If I end up
with more than 10 that accumulate throughout the week, so be it. By
checking back regularly you may get a leg up on someone else
applying for the same job. Best of luck! Check Telecommuting Jobs
for Week Ending 2/16/2010 Search for More Telecommuting Jobs on
IndeedToday's Telecommuting Jobs originally appeared on About.com
Home Business on Wednesday, February 17...
Will Snowmaggedon further the telecommuting cause?
Could “Snowmageddonâ€, as President
Obama has dubbed the storm that shut down Washington, help
employers (or, dare to dream, the federal government) see the light
when it comes to the benefits of telecommuting? Shutting down the
federal government costs $100 million a day in lost productivity.
Not likely if we’re talking about the government. [...]
Website Performance and Page Speeds Are Now Relevant to Google Page Rank
We all hate web pages that are slow to load but many site owners
now believe that we all have high speed broadband connections and
that they do not have to design a site for performance. How wrong
they are! The network performance speeds can massively vary as most
broadband connections are heavy contended. This means the end user
experience of a site can still vary from very fast to frustratingly
slow.
