Jul 02 2009
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Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm - CNN.com
Internet-enabled phones are making their way into rural America slowly because it’s difficult to send Internet data over cellular networks in some sparsely populated areas where wireless service is spotty, some advocates have claimed.
Still, some farmers are adopting the technology despite the odds.
The biggest draw of smartphones and online social networks is that they provide human connections to people for whom farm life can be lonely, said Chuck Zimmerman, publisher of an agriculture news blog called agwired.com.
