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Solar Highway (Photo credit: thetimchannel ) When public infrastructure goes private - Los Angeles Times :  " . . . today's model of building public infrastructure is to let private companies do it. Americans are becoming more dependent on privately operated toll roads to get where we're going, and on private delivery services like FedEx and UPS to carry our parcels. But the greatest shift has occurred in the sector that is most crucial in the information age: communications and data networks." Related articles Who Is Paying to Privatize Public Schools in Los Angeles?

Make Google Chrome do your bidding with new Google Apps control panel | Ars Technica :  "Make Google Chrome do your bidding with new Google Apps control panel New management features make it easier to manage Chrome in your business."

Image via CrunchBase Google’s New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlife | TechCrunch :  "Today, Google is launching its Inactive Account Manager on the Google Account settings page, which sets out to set up a system that allows you to tell Google “what you want done with your digital assets when you die or can no longer use your account.”" Related articles Google's New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlife Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager Google launches 'Inactive Account Manager' to deal with your data when you die Google Inactive Account Manager You can now tell Google what to do with your account in the afterlife Google lets users plan digital afterlife Google launches Inactive Account Manager so users can plan their 'digital afterlife' Google's New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlife | TechCrunch Goog

Verizon’s Long Term Plan to Abandon Wired Landlines/Broadband in Non-FiOS Areas Begins | Stop the Cap! :  "“In [...] areas that are more rural and more sparsely populated, we have got [a wireless 4G] LTE build that will handle all of those services and so we are going to cut the copper off there,” McAdam said. “We are going to do it over wireless. So I am going to be really shrinking the amount of copper we have out there and then I can focus the investment on that to improve the performance of it.”"