Internet Access and Application

Internet Access, Delivered From Above

Overlooking the 1,000-foot drop, Mr. Thompson said he saw the entire New York metropolitan area as the battleground where his company, TowerStream, will challenge phone companies for high-speed Internet business customers by delivering fast, cheap service without digging up streets to install cables.

How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

We can now glimpse what had once seemed unattainable: stopping the exorbitant flow of spam at its very source.

Ten Years After the Birth of the Internet, How Do Americans Use the Internet in Their Daily Lives?

Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society survey report on Internet use. The average Internet user in the United States spends three hours a day online, with much of that time devoted to work and more than half of it to communications. The survey found that use of the Internet has displaced television watching and a range of other activities.

Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing

The average Internet user in the U.S. spends three hours a day online, with much of that time devoted to work and more than half of it to communications.

Finding and Snuffing Out Spyware

Combine enough surfing time with out-of-date software or inattention to security, and a PC can quickly grow encrusted with spyware.

U.S. Seeks to Keep Role on Internet

The Bush administration has called for the United States to retain - and perhaps enhance - its long-standing role in Internet management.

Plan to Connect Rural India to the Internet

An international consortium is planning to establish thousands of rural Internet centers in India to bring services to isolated villages.

Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend

Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has turned Brazil into a tropical outpost of the free software movement.

U.S. to retain control of Internet domain names

The U.S. will not hand over control of the Internet to any other organization, aiming to continue controlling the "master file" that lists what top-level domains are authorized, the Bush administration said yesterday. There is a growing movement, represented in the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society, which is spearheaded by the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union agency, that would like to see the U.S. relinquish its hold on the Internet's top-level domains. CNET (7/1)

A ludicrous U.N. idea

This Washington Times editorial slams the United Nations' working group that on Tuesday proposed the U.S. yield its domination over Internet functions such as registering domain names and settling disputes to the world organization. Just one of many problems with the UN's approach is that its working group does not include one executive from a major technology company, the newspaper writes. The Washington Times (7/21)

Calling All Luddites

The fact that the U.S. has fallen to 16th in the world in broadband connectivity has aroused little interest, but it should.

Measuring the Blogosphere

If the blogosphere continues to expand at its current rate, every person who has Internet access will be a blogger before long, if not an actual reader of blogs.

In Case About Google's Secrets, Yours Are Safe

Google's fight with the government over search records has almost nothing to do with privacy and more to do with trade secrets.

Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone

Microsoft executives are discussing their alternative to the $100 laptop: turning a cellphone into a computer by connecting it to a television and a keyboard.

Internet Injects Sweeping Change Into U.S. Politics

Both Democratic and Republican campaigns are finding the Internet to be far more efficient than the traditional tools of politics.

U.N. officials, Silicon Valley tech leaders discuss digital divide

World's digital divide tackled at UN-Silicon Valley meeting United Nations officials, technology executives and venture capitalists met in Silicon Valley Wednesday to discuss how to best narrow the growing gap around the world between Internet haves and have-nots. Participants at the meeting -- organized by the UN's Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technology and Intel Corp. -- discussed, for instance, the building of computer centers in poor countries and how Africa can get inexpensive broadband Internet services. San Diego Union-Tribune/Associated Press (2/28)

Apologetic, Facebook Changes Ad Program

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the social networking site Facebook, apologized to the site’s users about the way it introduced a controversial new advertising feature last month.