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PCs for the People – One Way a Local Telco Is Helping Their Community
Kevin Larson of CTC discusses the program his company implemented that recycles PCs, while helping people who couldn’t otherwise afford computers. He points to the importance of getting devices to people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to the power that broadband would provide. This program targets families of grade-school children. Serving as the catalyst for…
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MTA 2010 Conference Coverage
ViodiTV event coverage from Minnesota Telecom Alliance (MTA) 2010 Annual Convention. From Batter to Cliff to Video World we cover the MTA Associate Member's baseball theme with Cliff Albertson to Planning for an All Video World. In the middle are video copyright issues, similar in difference with ACA, Gadgets, Torches, Electric Grids, MoCA, political friends,…
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The Romeo’s – MN telecom in the 50’s
The Romeos: Nine retired telco men talk of transitional time. The Romeo's is a 9 minute documentary on MN telecom in the 50's. The interviews are with retired telephone men describing a time of transition for telecommunications. They started at $16 at per week, climbed iron wire poles, converted crank phones to dial…
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May 2006 Local Content Workshop Overview and Content Pavilion Award
The May 2006 Local Content Workshop in Eden Prairie, MN was great fun, as Adobe spoke about the prevalence of Flash as a tool for enabling Internet video. The highlight of this abbreviated workshop had to be the presentation made by the team of Adam Saltmarsh and Shalon Wilber of diversiCOM. It was a great…
