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/ 11 October 2007
The ultra-high-speed Internet2 network just got 10 times faster, partly in anticipation of rising demand for capacity when the world’s largest particle collider opens near Geneva next year. Until recently, the Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second (Gbps).
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/ 13 September 2007
YouTube, online job applications and homework help sites have boosted demand and contributed to lines for internet access at United States public libraries, yet a new survey finds the majority have no immediate plans to add computers. For many library systems, the buildings simply do not have enough room, for example.
The internet’s key oversight agency is on track to start testing addresses entirely in foreign characters by November, but rules for determining which ones to permit likely will take another year or two to develop. Individuals and companies outside the United States long have clamoured for non-English scripts.
CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs (about R177) a year, becoming the latest news organisation to revamp its revenue model on the web. Spokesperson Jennifer Martin said the change, effective July 1, reflects lower costs associated with delivering bandwidth-intensive video.
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over. Many believe a ”clean slate” approach is the only way truly to address challenges that have cropped up in this time.
Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography websites, the internet’s key oversight agency voted to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the internet. The decision on Wednesday from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reverses its preliminary approval last June to create a ”.xxx” domain name for voluntary use by the adult entertainment industry.
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/ 25 October 2005
A quiet revolution is transforming life on the internet: new, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail. Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant web servers and run over standard browsers.
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/ 25 October 2005
A quiet revolution is transforming life on the internet: new, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail. Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant web servers and run over standard browsers.
America Online said on Thursday it has bought the online storage company Xdrive to meet the growing needs of consumers with rapidly expanding collections of digital music, photos and other files. AOL did not disclose financial terms but said it would operate Xdrive as a wholly owned subsidiary and continue to sell storage and backup services through Xdrive.com.
In a case that could set limits on internet search engines, the French news agency AFP is suing Google for pulling together photos and story excerpts from thousands of news websites. Agence France-Presse said the Google News service infringes on AFP’s copyrights by reproducing information from the websites of subscribers of the Paris-based news wholesaler.