Internet use
The rise in fuel costs has far-reaching implications, even in the contact center industry. While this phenomenon has been attributed to the rise in home-based agents, it is also causing a rise in contact center interactions as a result of an increase in Internet use among rural residents.
di
Computer makers are betting consumers want a product that's more than a smart phone but less than a full-featured laptop. Lenovo, the Chinese company with worldwide headquarters in Morrisville, N.C., is the latest to enter the burgeoning market for netbooks -- also known as Internet PCs. This month, Lenovo announced plans for a 1-inch-thick IdeaPad netbook with a 10-inch screen. Starting price: $399.
- Login to post comments
- Read more
- Freenewsfeed
- Source
Congress has passed legislation that will require the government to keep closer tabs on who has access to the Internet and who does not.
Supporters hope the Broadband Data Improvement Act will help policymakers better identify areas of the country that are falling behind when it comes to high-speed Internet access.
The bill passed both houses of Congress, with the Senate approving a final version Tuesday on a voice vote.
- Login to post comments
- Read more
- Freenewsfeed
- Source
China may be open to the Olympics, but it has shut off access to Apple's iTunes Store -- apparently because of a new album dedicated to Tibet. According to the album's sponsoring organization, more than 40 Olympic athletes from North America, Europe and China downloaded it "as an act of solidarity with Tibet" before the shutdown.
- Login to post comments
- Read more
- Freenewsfeed
- Source
- Alanis Morissette
- as an act of solidarity with Tibet
- Beijing
- China
- China-based iTunes store
- Chinese government
- Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
- Dave Matthews
- Europe
- firewall
- Huang Yuna
- Information Technology
- Internet use
- iTunes Store
- Japan
- John Mayer
- Moby
- music site
- NEW YORK
- news media
- North America
- Olympic
- Olympics
- Peace Foundation
- The Great Firewall of China
- Tibet
- United States
Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of "severe retaliation" if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., produced a translated version of a document from China's Public Security Bureau that requires hotels to use the monitoring equipment.
Sure, you could announce your vice president the usual way. In the backyard of your runningmate’s home, overlooking some scenic inspiring vista with giant satellite trucks from major networks idling out front. That’d be easy.
- Login to post comments
- Read more
- Ogilvy 360DI
- Source
According to the China Internet Network Information Center, more than 253 million people in China are now online. By contrast, Nielsen Online reports more than 220 million Americans have Internet access at home and/or work, and 73 percent of those were active in May.
"This is the first time the number has drastically surpassed the United States, becoming the world's number one," the nation's official net monitoring body said in a statement quoted by BBC News. However, western researchers say some caution is advisable when it comes to weighing statistics about Internet use in China.
- Login to post comments
- Read more
- Freenewsfeed
- Source
- advertising dollars
- BBC
- China
- China Internet Network Information Center
- Internet access
- internet population
- Internet usage
- Internet use
- Internet user
- Internet User Base \n According to
- Internet users
- online access
- online population
- online shopping
- search engine
- search engine
- search market
- United States
- Yahoo
China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.
The latest figure on Web use at the end of June is a 56 percent increase from a year ago, the China Internet Network Information Center said. It said the share of the Chinese public using the Internet is still just 19.1 percent, leaving more room for rapid growth.
- Login to post comments
- Read more
- Freenewsfeed
- Source
- Beijing
- China
- China Internet Network Information Center
- foreign news media
- Google Inc.
- internet population
- Internet use
- Internet users
- Nielsen Online
- online commerce
- online penetration
- search engine
- South Korea
- Tibet
- United States
- Web surfers
- Web use
- Web Use Now Surpasses United States \n China
- YouTube
Russia's new 42-year-old president showed frustration with government officials who do not know how to use a computer and warned Thursday that they could soon be out of a job.
"They either should learn or, as they say, goodbye," President Dmitry Medvedev said. "We don't hire people who can't read and write. Computer literacy today is the same."
Since taking office in May, Medvedev has made it his mission to modernize Russia and fight pervasive corruption.