Here's an item about an Indian state that has built more than 500 Wi-Fi hotspots to provide Internet access, Net-based phoning, and videoconferencing to rural areas that are unreachable by traditional telephone lines or cellphone services. This is an example of what technology analysts call "leapfrogging," where a country–often of the third-world variety–adopts cutting-edge technology that allows it to bypass some other tech that is more commonly in use in other nations... And speaking of broadband, more than half of all U.S. residential Internet users used fast broadband connections in July, outpacing dial-up connections for the first time, according to market researcher Nielsen//NetRatings.

# posted by James M. Pethokoukis at 3:00 PM EST
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