High Speed Hope

for Cat Lover and many other rural residents ......

Coalition pushes use of TV waves for Net

"WASHINGTON–A coalition of big technology companies that wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers over television airwaves hopes a device to be delivered to U.S. federal labs this week lives up to its promise.

The six partners – Microsoft, Google, Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and Philips NV– say they can meet that challenge. The prototype device, built by Microsoft, will undergo months of testing.

If the device passes muster, the coalition says, it could have versions in stores by early 2009."