E-Rate is a mammoth federal effort to underwrite costs associated with wiring needy schools and libraries to the Internet.
Given the current climate in Washington, we expect E-rate to disappear at some point over the next couple of years.
ENGADGET: Gov't may scrap E-rate funding of school, library net services
The e-rate offers a reduction on the price of monthly Internet access charges, wiring up classrooms, any special costs attaching to distance learning and basic telephone services.
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In debuting the site, FCC Chairman William Kennard endorsed the development of a scheme to coax schools and libraries into establishing their own Internet filtering strategies, possibly as a condition to receiving money from the E-Rate program.
Over half rate e-mail as essential to their work and most agree that e-mail is effective for both the simplest of tasks and for more complicated projects.
With it users have been able to close more business deals and increase the response rate to e-mail.
Virus-monitoring company MessageLabs said it had detected and stopped 155, 528 e-mail viruses by the end of November - a rate of one every three minutes.
To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.
Perhaps it's true that Einstein was referring to nuclear fission compounding at a rapid rate--e.g.
With so much in the air regarding e-book sales (such as author royalties, size of market, rate of growth, etc) publishers are still running scared of e-books on the whole.
E-mails revealed as part of the rate fixing investigation showed traders were seeking beneficial rates for their trading positions.
The update itself looks to be fairly large, improving some of the major issues we've had with the e-reader -- like page refresh rate and a lot of other little performance issues.
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His rate was rolled back to E-3 and he was a seaman again, which meant that he automatically lost his boilerman rating.
According to E-Poll Research, 48% of people surveyed rate Winfrey as influential.
On Dec. 14, while he was riding Amtrak's Acela train from New York to Washington, he opened an e-mail that detailed problems in the auction-rate markets, which were seizing up because of the blossoming credit crisis.
In fact, figures for 2012 show that while e-book sales are still on the rise, the rate of decline in print sales has actually slowed.
Regardless, with this unit, we felt enough latency in the refresh rate to be bothered by it, but e-reader enthusiasts or people who really need to travel with an arsenal or reading material are probably more than willing to let that slide in the face of the other advantages.
Recent research from Monetate (a provider of cloud-based technology for online marketers) has shown that social converts at a much lower rate than either search or email campaigns, with traditional e-mail marketing leading to the most conversions.
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E-mail marketing, by comparison, has an 11% click-through rate and a 4% average conversion rate.
These problems are only proliferating as air cargo, driven by e-commerce and global outsourcing, grows at 6.4% a year, twice the rate of passenger travel.
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