Hughes Network Systems, provider of broadband satellite network solutions and services, today announced that the number of HughesNet(TM) small business and residential subscribers grew to 300,000 during the second quarter of 2006, representing a 19 percent increase over this time last year.

During the first half of 2006, the company averaged more than 10,000 new subscribers a month. Significant growth was seen in the high-performance professional and small business service plans that Hughes introduced last fall. Full Story...

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If you think about Paramount's Carowinds theme park in North Carolina chances are, you think about waterslides and roller coasters.

There's more, though.

After closing for two years and putting several million dollars into upgrades and renovations, the park's campsite is back in operation. Wireless Internet, air-conditioned cabins, a miniature golf course, a new playground and an air-conditioned tram that takes you to and from the theme park are among the new features.

The campground has a new name, too. Camp Wilderness Resort opened April 1 with a remodeled lodge and lots of new underground work that provides electricity and water, even to the 57 tent sites.

There are 199 sites available for rental, and next week, six of 15 air-conditioned log cabins will be available. Most of the sites are RV sites. Full Story...

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PayPal has fixed a flaw in its Web site to block a sophisticated scam designed to obtain sensitive data from members, the payment service said Friday.

By exploiting the flaw, attackers were able to redirect people from a PayPal Web page to an online trap located in South Korea, a representative for the service said. The page actually has a real PayPal URL, but hosts malicious code that presents a message warning members that their account had been compromised. It then redirects them to a "phishing" Web site. Full Story...

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With little fanfare, the city of Fresno, California has "lit up" sections of downtown with free wireless Internet service, making it possible for people with Wi-Fi-enabled laptop computers to sit and surf the Internet along parts of Kern Street, Grizzlies Stadium and the Fulton Mall.

Now city officials plan to track how people use the service to decide what next steps to take in their long-range plan to bring wireless Internet capability to a larger swath of the city.

The city's new system can offer connection speeds of up to 54 megabytes per second, using a series of 16 antennas that city workers have installed in the past three weeks or so, said Bob Hendricks, city chief information officer. Full Story...

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And yet less than one-half of 1 percent of American households currently subscribe to a satellite-based broadband service. In light of satellite TV's astounding success story, why has broadband-via-satellite failed to follow the same growth track?

Twenty-five years ago, when big dishes began sprouting up like mushrooms throughout the U.S., thousands of rural Americans descended on a U.S. Congress that was deliberating about whether to make the technology legal. By giving voice to their concerns, rural American ensured that their access to TV programs via satellite would continue to place them on an equal footing with their urban counterparts.

Fast-forward to 2006 and it is obvious that not enough is being done to bridge a new multimedia divide that once again places rural Americans at a disadvantage. Full Story...

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Throughout the Upper Texas Rio Grande Valley, restaurants — from fast-food joints to local cafés — are serving up free wireless Internet to customers, drawing in dozens of college students, Winter Texans and business people hoping to catch up on work or check their e-mail while they grab a bite to eat.

In the past three months, three of the Valley’s largest fast-food restaurant chains have started offering the free Web surfing service to customers with a laptop computer with a wireless modem. So far, wireless Internet is available at several Wendy’s, Dairy Queen and Burger King locations — all far cries from the ultra-hip coffee shops and Internet cafés that formerly owned the market on food services and the Internet. Full Story...

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Getting the once-dominant America Online ISP off your back isn´t easy

Hi, my name is Alan and I used to be an AOLcoholic.

For years, I wanted to quit using AOL -- the Internet service provider America Online -- but I just couldn´t do it. Every time I thought of life without it, I found myself racing back to my AOLcohol stash and taking several hits, despite the fact that it was ruining my health and digging its claws into my life with even greater ferocity.

That´s right. I was hooked and I´d use any excuse to justify it. Everyone else seemed hooked on, or at least hooked up to, AOL too.

Statistics have my back on this. AOL had a half million users in 1993, but by 1999 that number had grown to 20 million. AOL, in short, ruled the waves.

But then, since about 2000 -- around the time AOL negotiated a $112 billion merger with the entertainment ¨brand¨ Time Warner -- all those other AOLcoholics I knew started drifting off to other ISPs. I became the only AOLcoholic in my family, on my block, among my circle of friends. Full Story...

Coffee shops with WiFi used to be considered a novelty; they dangled the service to lure customers. Now it's more unusual if cafes and equally hip bubble-tea joints don't have wireless Internet service.

What's emerging are the less conventional places that offer WiFi. They include the Corkscrew, a laid-back wine bar that brothers Andrew and Doyle Adams opened nearly three months ago. Full Story...

For the months of June and July Sprint/EMBARQ have made two free Wi-Fi hot-spots in the City of Henderson. If you’re in downtown Henderson or the Green Valley Ranch area, chances are you can surf the net for free, courtesy of the newly renamed telecommunications company. For connection instructions visit EMBARQ's website or call 800-280-4292.