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2003 Fall Anniversary Party
Table of Contents Victory in Ting vs. AT&T CA raises $34,000 at its 2003 anniversary party -
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Choosing a Wireless Service Provider - Powerpoint Slides
These PowerPoint slides cover many of the issues involved in shopping for and using cell phone service. -
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Choosing a Wireless Plan - Training Curriculum
This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders about consumers' cell phone choices—service providers, calling plans, and phones to name a few. The packet contains a detailed curriculum, and classroom activities designed to… -
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Choosing a Wireless Service Provider - Backgrounder Guide
This question-and-answer format booklet is designed to help you understand the issues involved in shopping for and using cell phone service. Topics covered include wireless service plans and coverage, wireless phones, keeping your phone number… -
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Digital Destiny
With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications, our society now has the potential for a truly democratic media system offering a wide variety of independent sources of news, information, and culture, with… -
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Groups recommend ‘Do Not Track List’
WASHINGTON—A group of nine privacy organizations – the Center for Democracy and Technology, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy Activism, Public Information Research, Privacy Journal, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and World Privacy… -
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Online traffic schools need to be policed
When it comes to online traffic schools, you’d figure a strong regulator is needed to oversee an industry some say is rife with cheating, with stay-at-home students Googling test answers or having others take courses… -
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Bringing broadband to the urban poor
Anthony Celestine was a latecomer to the Internet Age. The 40-year-old Harlem resident has owned a small Jani-King commercial cleaning franchise since 2004, but until recently, the New Yorker hadn’t owned a computer or even… -
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Why spend $350 million to map broadband?
Deep inside the stimulus bill that passed the Senate Tuesday is an allocation of up to $350 million for making a “nationwide inventory map of existing broadband service capability and availability in the United States.”… -
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The broadband gap: Why is theirs cheaper?
Broadband is cheaper in many other countries than in the United States. “You have a pretty uncompetitive market by European standards,” said Tim Johnson, the chief analyst at Point-Topic, a London consulting firm. Other countries… -
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Cable firm’s plan to Net extra cash
Time Warner Cable Inc. customers beware: If you’re what the company considers a heavy Internet user, you could soon be charged as much as $150 a month for online access. The sky-high charge is part… -
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Internet Safety
This publication outlines ways that you can protect yourself and your computer when you use the Internet and email. -
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Do you know where your data is?
Do you know what your data did last night? Almost none of more than 27 million people who took the RealAge quiz realized that their personal health data was sold to drug companies, who in… -
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Broadband caps can cost you
What’s more important when you sign up for your Internet service: getting a lower price upfront, or being assured that your bill won’t jump higher later on? That’s the crux of the debate over broadband… -
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Lost in the cloud
EARLIER this month Google announced a new operating system called Chrome. It’s meant to transform personal computers and handheld devices into single-purpose windows to the Web. This is part of a larger trend: Chrome moves… -
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Internet Safety (Korean)
이 출판물은 여러분이 인터넷과 이메일을 사용할 때 자신과 컴퓨터를 보호하는 요령에 대해 설명하고 있습니다. This publication outlines ways that you can protect yourself and your computer when you use the Internet and email. -
Vietnamese:
Internet Safety (Vietnamese)
Ấn bản này sơ lược các phương cách quý vị có thể tự bảo vệ mình và máy điện toán của quý vị khi sử dụng mạng lưới điện toán và thư e-mail.… -
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Internet Safety (Chinese)
這本社區教育手冊提供消費者有關在使用互聯網或電郵時， 應該如何保護個人以及電腦隱私權之各項要訣。 -
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Questions & Answers about Internet Safety - Internet Safety Trainer’s Manual
This publication can help answer many questions about safety and security on the Internet and how to keep children, computer data and personal information safer and more secure. It outlines simple, but effective precautions and… -
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Seguridad por Internet
Esta publicación explica cómo protegerse y cómo proteger a su computadora cuando navega por Internet y usa correo electrónico. -
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Internet Safety - Seminar Lesson Plan and Class Activities
This packet, only available as a PDF file, provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 22-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
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Internet Safety - Training Slides
The Internet Safety Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section. -
Outreach:
Consumer Action and Microsoft team up to teach Internet Safety
Consumer Action and Microsoft co-hosted an Internet Safety roundtable in Oakland on March 24th. The roundtable included a good mix of lecture and activities on how consumers can protect themselves and children, online. -
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The FCC and the Internet
With the Internet fast becoming the most important communications channel, it is untenable for the United States not to have a regulator to ensure nondiscriminatory access, guarantee interconnectivity among rival networks and protect consumers from… -
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Apple is said to face inquiry about online music
The Justice Department is examining Apple’s tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations.…
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