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(CBS) – I discovered Adam Butcher’s “Internet Story” when I was stumbling this morning. I was instantly intrigued by the short film’s description: “A fast-paced and experimental film told through fragments of internet videos, animations, blogs and news articles… A series of shocking events unfolds when a young man creates a public treasure hunt for [...]

By D.D. GUTTENPLAN Published: September 18, 2011 LONDON — After decades of healthy profits, the scholarly publishing industry now finds itself in the throes of a revolt led by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries: the librarians. Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their expensive subscriptions, turning instead to “open access” publishing, an [...]

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil plans to expand Internet access with low-cost broadband service across the country, the communications minister said Thursday. By 2014, the government wants Internet access available to 70 percent of Brazilian homes, compared with today’s 27 percent, Paulo Bernardo Silva told reporters. Internet providers are expected to begin offering this access [...]

Local internet marketing expert uses analogy of a non working business website as a car without gasoline. You need SEO to get your website working and moving you to your business destination. Irvine, CA (PRWEB) July 20, 2011 Business Networking International recently recognized search engine optimization expert Richard Fong in their 2011 annual seminar on [...]

A new survey of small business’s internet marketing practices reveals new findings about the satisfaction and use of their websites and social media. Many are “do it yourself internet marketers” but they recognize the need for improving local search optimization and using affordable tools to make better use of social media. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July [...]

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Access to the Internet should be seen as a fundamental human right and respected as much as freedom of expression, the transatlantic security body OSCE said in a report Friday. “Everyone should have a right to participate in the information society and states have a responsibility to ensure citizens? access to the Internet is guaranteed,” [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Today hundreds of Internet giants, including Google and Facebook, are participating in the first worldwide “test flight” of a major engineering upgrade to the Internet’s infrastructure. You didn’t notice a thing? Good. Wednesday is World IPv6 Day, a clunky name for an experiment that should be invisible to Web surfers but [...]

  – TOKYO (AFP) – A group up of Eastern web service providers started blocking get right of entry to to child porn websites this week Thursday while section up of efforts to unravel behind this week the spread from sexually specific photographs of children. Japan Internet providers block child porn Internet Japan serves as [...]

KANSAS CITY, KAN— Better, faster Internet connections are coming to Kansas City, Kansas, after Google selected the city out of 1,100 cities nationwide to be the first to receive the company’s ultra high-speed broadband network. The announcement on Wednesday means that residents and businesses in the city will soon have access to Internet connections more [...]