<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Posts by Philip Sheldrake</title><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/people/philip.sheldrake</link><description>Posts made by Philip Sheldrake on Convergence Conversation</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:06:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2009 Convergence Conversation and contributing authors.  For full copyright info and terms of use visit http://www.convergenceconversation.com/</copyright><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>Convergence Conversation</title><url>http://www.convergenceconversation.com//lib/img/rssimg.png</url><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/people/philip.sheldrake</link></image>	<item><title>Powerline broadband sparks back to life</title><description><![CDATA[Just when you thought the promise of deliverying Internet conectivity over powerline had been relegated to the archive folder of &quot;nearly but not quite&quot; innovations, IBM announces a $9.6m deal with International Broadband Electric Communications Inc.IBM will provide and install the equipment, with the whole initiative coming in over two years at up to $70m. The deal focuses on providing connectivity to sparsely populated areas across the eastern United States.It must be big news as it&#39;s been Slashdotted.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/philip.sheldrake/powerline-broadband-sparks-back-to-life</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/philip.sheldrake/powerline-broadband-sparks-back-to-life</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:46:29 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Sputnik moment... call to action for national US broadband policy</title><description><![CDATA[Ben Piper of Strategy Analytics has derided Internet connectivity in the US, describing it as &quot;outpaced by other developed nations in terms of broadband deployment, penetration, availability and affordability&quot;. He appears to be gifted in framing his assertions by raising the spectre of the Russian Sputnik initiative in 1957 which spurred the US to engage proactively in the space race.In his report&#39;s accompanying press release, Ben is quoted as saying: &quot;Through inertia, complacency and false security, the United States was late out of the broadband starting gate, and has barely begun the game of catch up....]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/philip.sheldrake/sputnik-moment...-call-to-action-for-national-us-broadband-policy</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/philip.sheldrake/sputnik-moment...-call-to-action-for-national-us-broadband-policy</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate></item>
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