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[webCLEVR] Obama Includes Broadband, Smart Grid in Stimulus Package (PC World): PC World - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama laid out his plan for a huge economic stimulus package, with broadband rollout, an Internet-based smart energy grid and computers for schools as part of the plan.

[Blogrunner] The Confidence Surplus - Blogrunner: "Today the Congressional Budget Office announced that the deficit we are inheriting for this budget year will be $1.2 trillion," President-elect Obama said today, noting that the stimulus package "will necessarily add more."

[PC World] Windows 7 Beta, Jobs' Health, the Economy Again - PC World: Obama includes broadband, smart grid in stimulus package: Broadband rollout, an Internet-based smart-energy grid, computers for schools and a push for all U.S. medical records to be in electronic form within five years are part of .

[Breaking Technology News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com] The tech solution to the recession - Technology News - SINA English: But Atkinson says that given the size of Obama's proposed stimulus package, the ITIF's study was intended to drive spending on technology investments in general rather than any particular part of the industry. "If you had a limited amount of money, you'd probably pick broadband first," says Atkinson, "But with as much as $900 billion to spend, there really isn't a limit."

[Breaking Technology News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com] Stimulus math: $30B in spending equals 950k tech jobs: The coming stimulus spending will not just create jobs but could also change the economy, he argued, citing Obama's plan to boost spending on health care IT. Moving to electronic health care records will increase the efficiency of the nation's health care, as well as "probably save lives," said John Irons, research and policy director of the Economic Policy Institute, which describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank.

[Comment is free: CIF America | guardian.co.uk] Sascha Meinrath: The US should invest in broadband internet as ...: In the US, we have an opportunity to implement broadband solutions that dramatically improve the lives of everyone living in the country. The question, therefore, is whether this new administration has the gumption to create a "broadband Apollo project" to maximise the potential and possibility of the information age.

[CNET News.com] Tech lobbyists: Spend $30 billion in tax dollars, get a million ...: Besides the enormous number of non-IT related jobs created by something like a $1 billion per state investment in broadband infrastructure, besides the potential of hundreds of new entrepreneurs taking advantage of the new technology, faster internet speeds and therefore becoming yet another source of job creation, the knock on effect of creating hundreds of thousands of high paying tech jobs has nothing but good repercussions in any community that they exist.

[TECH.BLORGE.com] Energy efficiency, broadband technology high on Obama’s list ...: Energy efficiency, and the technological infrastructure and development that make it possible, are high on the list of President-elect Obama’s plans for economic stimulus. Obama said that building energy efficiency is a prime component of his administration’s economic recover plans, intended to stimulate an improvement in the currently stagnant United States economy.

[CNET News.com] Energy efficiency high on Obama stimulus plan | Green Tech - CNET News: The energy plan is expected to include a commitment to upgrade the electricity distribution infrastructure. By equipping the grid with communications network--the essence of smart grid technology--utilities can run the power grid more efficiently and consumers can get information to help lower energy usage.

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[UK News from Times Online] Grid of 100000 computers heralds new internet dawn - Times Online: The Grid allows scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for NuclearResearch, to get access to the unemployed processing power of thousands ofcomputers in 33 countries to deal with the data created by the LHC.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC NEWS | Nick Robinson's Newslog: What has happened since say 2000, is that countries where the workforce puts in a proper effort (China) and countries that were sitting on a pile of natural resources sent their money to US and UK consumers through the purchase of government and mortgage-backed bonds, apart from buying the odd piece of real estate or a stake in a bank.

[Data center news from Network World Fusion] NetworkWorld.com - Network World: Only about 200,000 households signed up for broadband subscriptions in the last quarter of 2008 in the U.K., showing that growth in the sector is not immune to current...

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