This week Citizens for a Digital Future posted two new blogs. The first, Healthcare Apps: Just What the Doctor Ordered is about the need for congress to work together to make sure that there is an adequate amount of spectrum to ensure the reliability of healthcare apps. The second, Payroll Tax Extension Bill Puts Money in Taxpayers Pockets and Boosts Wireless Service applauds Congress’ bipartisan decision to approve the payroll tax cut extension.
Recently posted news articles include:
Payroll tax cut deal may mean faster wireless connections - The need for revenue to cover the extension of the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits has pushed Congress to embrace a generational shift in the country’s media landscape: the auction of public airwaves now used for television broadcasts to create more wireless Internet systems.
The Future of High-Tech Health Care — and the Challenge – Demos, talks and a paper-plate dinner buffet were the fare last Friday evening at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, Calif., and the subject was the high-tech future of health care. The gathering was hosted by FutureMed, a health-care program that is part of Singularity University, a networked organization dedicated to exploring how disruptive technologies can sweep across whole industries and society.
Obama Again Calls for ‘Incentive Auctions,’ Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network – President Obama’s $3.803 trillion fiscal year 2013 budget plan retains previous administration proposals to nearly double the wireless spectrum available for mobile broadband and to create a nationwide, interoperable, public safety broadband network that would link fire, police, and emergency first-responders in the event of a national emergency, such as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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