| Africa making progress in Internet access (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Wed, 14 May 2008 15:46:32 GMT |
Improving Internet access in Africa is a fight on several fronts -- building undersea cables, setting up regional exchanges and bridging the last mile to homes and businesses -- but the continent is making progress.
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| 18% Of U.S. Households Have No Internet Access (WebProNews) - Wed, 14 May 2008 18:48:01 GMT |
Around one-fifth of all U.S. households are without an Internet connection and have never used email, according to research firm Parks Associates. An annual phone survey of households by Parks found 20 million households have no Internet access, making up approximately 18 percent of all U.S. households. read more
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| Phone, Internet Access Down At Arlington School (NBC4 Washington, D.C.) - Wed, 14 May 2008 18:57:52 GMT |
Phone and Internet access was cut off at Oakridge Elementary School on Wednesday when construction crews on Interstate 395 severed a fiber-optic line, school officials say.
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| Internet may run out of addresses by 2011, warns OECD (Daily Telegraph) - Thu, 15 May 2008 14:26:43 GMT |
The internet could run out of addresses by 2011, cutting off access to new users and stifling creativity across the globe, unless governments step up their investment, the OECD warned today.
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| New Law Limits Sexual Predators' Internet Access (NY1 News) - Wed, 14 May 2008 22:13:17 GMT |
Governor David Paterson signed the so-called e-STOP bill Wednesday -- a new law aimed to limit the ability of sexual predators to use the internet to target children.
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| CBS buying online news and entertainment company CNet for $1.75B, widens Internet exposure (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - Thu, 15 May 2008 12:37:45 GMT |
NEW YORK - CBS Corp. agreed to buy online technology news and entertainment company CNet Networks Inc. for about $1.75 billion, expanding its access to the burgeoning Internet advertising market.
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| EurActiv.com - Interview: Mobile Internet 'will overtake PCs' by 2016 | EU - European Information on InfoSociety (EUActiv) - Thu, 15 May 2008 13:50:06 GMT |
Surfing the Web on a personal computer will become old-fashioned in less than ten years when the majority of Internet users are expected to access the Net through their mobile handsets, Geraldine Wilson, vice president of Yahoo! Europe Connected Life, told EurActiv in an interview.
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| UC Law bans classroom web access (ZDNet) - Thu, 15 May 2008 03:50:26 GMT |
I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...
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| Elysium Internet Launches New Web Site; Adds New Directors (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) - Thu, 15 May 2008 14:21:00 GMT |
Elysium Internet, Inc., an emerging direct navigation Internet media Company, today announced that it has launched a new Corporate web site at www.ElysiumInternet.com to provide investors with streamlined access to information relating to its ongoing development.
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| Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked (AP via Yahoo! News) - Thu, 15 May 2008 13:25:05 GMT |
Cox Communications appears to be interfering with file-sharing by its Internet subscribers in the same manner that has landed Comcast Corp. in hot water with regulators, according to research obtained by The Associated Press.
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