Internet Risks and Our Response 1)Introduction As our society becomes more urban‚ and life becomes hectic and busy for both parents and youth‚ the youths face more issues of modernity than before. Alienation‚ loneliness‚ depression become more prevalent. Many youths also have access to the internet. With the ready availability of broadband‚ and generally an improvement in the telecommunications industry‚ especially in the urban areas (partly due to the government’s push to attract investments
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the extent to which cyber crimes have been committed. The advent of the internet has been accompanied by outcomes‚ good and bad. While the internet provides easy access to any information or person in any part of the world‚ it is the same advantage which has been misused for gaining undue advantage‚ in the form of various cyber crimes. One such crime among the plethora of cyber crimes‚ is the crime of defamation on the internet. The freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that has been
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INTERNET SEARCHING AUGUST 2012 Preface Online search / internet searching has become an essential for students and scholars. What typically took place in libraries‚ by phone calls or visits to experts in the field is being changed because of the Internet. Experts can sometimes be contacted by email and information‚ whether it is addresses‚ phone numbers‚ or detailed specifics on a certain subject‚ can be accessed on the World Wide Web. Search Engines
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Internet Security Many people today are familiar with the Internet and its use. A large number of its users however‚ are not aware of the security problems they face when using the Internet. Most users feel they are anonymous when on-line‚ yet in actuality they are not. There are some very easy ways to protect the user from future problems. The Internet has brought many advantages to its users but has also created some major problems. Most people believe that they are anonymous when they
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The advent and prosperity of the Internet has provided many marketers with a platform to spread brand awareness. E-Marketing is defined by Chaffney as “The management and execution of marketing using electronic media such as the web‚ e-‚mail‚ Interactive TV‚ IPTV and wireless media in conjunction with digital date about customers characteristics and behaviours”(Chaffney‚ 2006 p. 10) In “2009 brands spent half a billion pounds on internet advertisers‚ up from £114 million in 2002“(mintel‚2010) This
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S. Walls Dr. Patterson EN 111 07 13 November 2012 Internet Censorship Internet is one of the biggest and most used sources for‚ entertainment‚ information‚ and social interactions. Many Americans rely on the Internet for their personal‚ and work lives. If the government is allowed to restrict what we as a free people can and can not see‚ they cross a line that shouldn’t be crossed. The major problems with censoring the Internet are‚ the violation of the First Amendment‚ passing the bill
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The Internet and the Workplace The Internet has become a pervasive presence in the American workplace. Two-thirds of employees in medium and large companies in the United States now have Internet access‚ compared with fifteen percent only two years ago‚ according to a sampling of 500 companies surveyed by the IntelliQuest Corporation. (IntelliQuest) Workers with Web access typically spend five to ten hours per week sending personal e-mail or searching for information not specifically related
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Keywords: Internet gambling‚ problem gambling‚ gambling regulation Paper presented at the 2008 EBEN-UK ANNUAL CONFERENCE‚ Cambridge 2 April 2008 Please do not quote without permission. (10.03.08 CJ & SG) Abstract Gambling online is growing exponentially‚ without the protection of reliable regulatory structures that ensure age and identity verification‚ the integrity/fairness of the games‚ or that responsible gaming features are included on a site. In a poorly regulated Internet environment
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The Internet is one of the most remarkable things human beings have ever made. With the past few decades‚ internet has become so popular and it is an integral part of our daily lives. Email‚ instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing the conventional forms of correspondence‚ and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as ‘technospeak’ comes to rule‚ standards will be lost. This
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focused on transactions. E-marketing is only one part of an organization’s e-business activities. What is the Internet? The Internet is a global network of interconnected networks. Three important types of networks form part of the Internet: Intranet‚ Extranet‚ and Web. E-Marketing is Bigger Than the Web Many E-Marketing technologies exist that predate the Web. Non-Web Internet communication such as email and newsgroups are effective avenues for marketing. It is Bigger Than Technology
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