A big story flew somewhat under the radar yesterday as the Election was at the forefront of minds not only all across the America, but around the world. The FCC has approved the use of the unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels, otherwise known as "white spaces" for public wireless broadband service.
Google Sees White Spaces Filling With Internet
Testing at the Federal Communication Commission will determine whether or not Google and its fellow backers of wireless broadband within unused spectrum reaches the marketplace.
Page: White Spaces Wireless Not A Pipe Dream
Part of Google’s ruling triumvirate, co-founder Larry Page, appeared on Capitol Hill to talk about broadband and other topics, like the ability to deliver wireless high-speed Internet within the 700MHz spectrum.
Report: Live Spaces Has Most Downtime
Pingdom tracked 12 top social networking sites from October 19 to November 19, and found that Microsoft’s Live Spaces had the most downtime, with the site failing to respond for a total of three hours over the course of the month.
By contrast, that’s more than Facebook (10 minutes), MySpace (10), Bebo (30), LiveJournal (40) and Orkut (85) combined, and worst on the list.
Microsoft Fixing Windows Live Spaces Issues
After relaunching MSN Spaces as a Windows Live-branded service with updated features, a combination of issues caused plenty of problems for users.
Windows Live Spaces Debuts
The successor to Microsoft’s MSN Spaces blogging service launched this week with an assortment of new features for its users.
MSN Spaces Tops In Blogs
Microsoft noted how its MSN Spaces blogging service drew more than 100 million visitors in April, and that does not even include its 20 million unique visitors in China.
MSN Spaces Adds Windows Live Expo Content
MSN Spaces has added a Windows Live Expo module, so people can list their Expo items on their Space.
Windows Live Spaces Coming This Summer
LiveSide points to the MSN Spaces homepage, which now says:
MSN Spaces Makes Friends Down Under
A test in Australia of social networking features for users of MSN Spaces lets users add their friends via a new module.