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A Home Network Where Your TV Talks to Your Fridge

September 2nd, 2008

The internet will truly be everywhere.

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Article excerpt:   Across the consumer electronics industry, leading players are revamping their audio and video equipment for a future centered around the Internet, a world in which televisions, stereos and computers — even dishwashers and refrigerators — can communicate with each other over a wireless home network. Expanded lines [...]

112 million U.S. adults have broadband at home, up 300% from 2002

April 29th, 2008

Have we reached the tipping point with home broadband?  For those consumers who are more affluent, we surely have.

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Article excerpt:  The percentage of U.S. households with broadband Internet connections has grown from 12% in 2002 to 49% today, and 112 million U.S. adults now have high-speed web access at home, according to a study [...]