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BoomTown in D.C. to Say Happy 25th Birthday to .Com and Wary Hello to Broadband Plan

Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2010 at 7:54 am PT

Last night, I jetted east to Washington, D.C., for an unusual confluence of events: The 25th anniversary of the .com Internet domain name and the Federal Communications Commission’s release of the National Broadband Plan. Both are set for tomorrow in the nation’s capital and both concern the impact of the Web on the United States in the past and the future. And after a quarter-century, let’s hope the federal government finally starts to take the Internet seriously.

This Just In From the N.S. Sherlock Institute for the Bleeding Obvious…

John Paczkowski in News on July 28, 2009 at 2:27 pm PT

…drivers who text while at the wheel are more likely to have accidents than those paying attention to the road ahead. In fact, according to a new $6 million dollar study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, texting while driving increases your chances of crashing by 23 times.