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Thinkfinity’s Support for Kids’ Summer Learning
Posted by Kathy Brown in PolicyBlog on June 30, 2009, 04:31 PM EST
For kids, summer is usually a time for fun and friends, so it’s sometimes a challenge to keep fresh all that was learned throughout the school year.  And that’s not just anecdotal.  According to the National Center for Summer Learning, all young people experience learning loss when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer. Most students lose about two months of grade-level equivalency in mathematical computation skills, and low-income students lose more than two months in...
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Privacy Policy Made More Customer Friendly
Posted by John 'CZ' Czwartacki in PolicyBlog on June 30, 2009, 02:10 PM EST
The following post was authored by, and should be attributed to, Kathy Zanowic, Chief Privacy Officer.  Kathy was named Verizon’s Chief Privacy Officer in April of 2006.  She is responsible for articulating and ensuring compliance with the company’s privacy principles and policies as well as responding to privacy laws, regulations, industry practices and consumer trends affecting Verizon, its employees and its customers.  She has been with Verizon for over 20 years.    Verizon has updated its...
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Home Buyers Want Fiber Connections
Posted by Eric Rabe in PolicyBlog on June 29, 2009, 03:14 PM EST
If there was any doubt that the role of broadband in American life is at a tipping point, consider this:  Home buyers are more interested in whether a home has an all-fiber-optic Internet hookup than whether there’s a community pool. Or a daycare center.  Or a nearby convenience store. In new surveys just reported, even people who have never had a fiber link rank an ultra-fast connection tops out of five key options. This news tells us two things: First, Internet hookups really matter inside...
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MiFi’s Wireless "Tethering" Invites All to VZ's 3G
Posted by John 'CZ' Czwartacki in PolicyBlog on June 25, 2009, 11:58 AM EST
Longing to join your device to the Verizon Wireless 3G Party? Now you can! You can’t throw a sheep on-line these days without hitting someone who hasn’t read or written about the hand-wringing over tethering, the unreliability of others’ 3G networks, or the desire to get other devices on the Verizon network. Those frustrations are each mollified with on very cool innovation – Verizon wireless’ MiFi. The MiFi is the size of a very thin wallet or thick credit card; it’s basically a battery...
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Ivan Seidenberg’s Vision and Views
Posted by Link Hoewing in PolicyBlog on June 23, 2009, 04:37 PM EST
Ivan Seidenberg had a wide ranging discussion on the Charlie Rose Show recently about Verizon, his vision for the company, and his views on everything from the role broadband and wireless networks play in societal change to policy issues like net neutrality.  I am biased I admit but I believe Ivan covers most of the major issues in our industry and provides a view of the future as he sees it for the communications industry. I am not surprised by the vision and understanding Ivan exhibits...
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Verizon FiOS, Adding Six More HD Channels
Posted by Eric Rabe in PolicyBlog on June 23, 2009, 11:37 AM EST
More FiOS HD?  Yes, it’s for real.  Verizon FiOS TV is getting six new HD channels – and we’re letting readers of this blog know about it first. We’re launching HD channels from Viacom – MTV, VH1, CMT (Country Music Television), Nickelodeon, Spike TV, and Comedy Central.  They’ll be available in all FiOS TV markets by the end of next week.  This is most-watched content and it’ll be even more popular in HD. Depending on the number of local and regional HD channels available in your market,...
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