Cleveland school parents get Internet safety guide from FTC

Plain Dealer

Cleveland School District parents will receive a free guide to the Internet so they can talk to their children about being careful online.

The schools will give out as many as 50,000 copies of a Federal Trade Commission publication, "Net Cetera." The distribution ranks as one of the largest for the guide since it was made available a little less than a year ago, according to officials from the FTC's regional office in Cleveland.

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COLUMN: NE Ohio region ahead of tech race; keep up pace

Crain's Cleveland Business

Back in the days when change could take generations and geographic location and natural resources largely determined a community's economic potential, Cleveland was among the wealthiest and most entrepreneurial communities in the world. Needless to say, we have lost that edge.

But even in an era when technology facilitates change seemingly overnight, Northeast Ohio has tremendous resources and a terrific opportunity to reinvent itself as a leader in the 21st-century knowledge economy.

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T-Mobile improves wireless speeds in Ohio cities

InformationWeek SMB

T-Mobile has been rolling out HSPA+ to markets aggressively this year. T-Mobile says that 16 devices in its portfolio can "benefit" from the HSPA+ network, though T-Mobile has yet to announce any full HSPA+ capable handsets.

The lastest batch of cities to gain access to the improved wireless speeds include: Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Waco, Texas; Baltimore, Md.; Baton Rouge and Lafayette, La.; Birmingham, Al.; Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio; Ft. Lauderdale and Jacksonville, Fla.; Greenville, S.C.; Honolulu, Hi.; Indianapolis, Ind.; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Milwaukee, Wi.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Portland, Ore.; and Wichita, Kan.

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