News tagged with internet revolution

British Library, Google in deal to digitize books

A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven submarine are among 250,000 books to be made available online in a deal ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Hyper-public spaces: Finding clues to managing the Internet by using design principles

The digital revolution is storming the barricades of privacy. In today’s interconnected world, we are tracked, surveyed, watched, and followed at every turn. Our movements both inside and outside cyberspace ...

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created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Media boss Murdoch rallies Internet for education

Media baron Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday urged Internet companies to pull out the stops in developing digital education programmes to revolutionise the world's classrooms.

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created May 24, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key Internet summit to discuss online rules

The world's most powerful Internet and media barons gathered in Paris on Tuesday in a show of strength to leaders at the G8 summit, amid rows over online copyright, regulation and human rights.

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created May 24, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

India's 'digital divide' worst among peers: study

Most Indians are missing out on the "digital revolution" due to dismal Internet access for the poor with the nation lagging far behind its emerging market peers, a study found Wednesday.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stimulus funds help wire rural homes for Internet

(AP) -- Up in rural northern Vermont, it took until the 1960s to run power lines to some towns - decades after the rest of America got turned on.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Africa's tech explosion promises economic growth

Ask web entrepreneur Stefan Magdalinski why he moved from London to Cape Town two years ago, and he points to a map that illustrates the technological revolution reshaping Africa.

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created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Here's a guide to social networking for clueless adults

Welcome to Facebook, children of the 20th century. Since the social network, initially developed for students, relaxed its rules in 2006 to let in pretty much anyone older than 13, millions of users who predate the Internet ...

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0