People can get lots of things done through the Internet‚ chatting with friends through MSN‚ shopping on Amarzon.com‚ settling the credit card bill‚ making new friends through the Facebook‚ reading newspaper on appledaily.com‚ etc. Besides‚ when we want to search for information‚ we can simply “Google” it‚ and we get what we want. It is no doubt that the Internet has greatly sped up the flow of information. In Hong Kong‚ the popularization of the Internet leads to the formation of different forums‚
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Internet Censorship For centuries governments have tried to regular materials deemed inappropriate or offensive. The history of western censorship was said to have begun when Socrates was accused "firstly‚ of denying the gods recognized by the State and introducing new divinities‚ and secondly of corrupting the young." He was sentenced to death for these crimes. Many modern governments are attempting to control access to the Internet. They are passing regulations that restrict the freedom
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Strategy and the Internet |Published: |April 16‚ 2001 | |Author: |Michael E. Porter | Executive Summary: Don’t throw the strategy baby out with the Internet bath water. In this Harvard Business Review article‚ HBS professor Michael E. Porter urges business planners not to lose focus on strategic development and If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet‚ it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves
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Rewrite (Ryan) The internet has considerably changed our daily life‚ even precious individual life. It was reported that a teenager died in an internet club because of overuse of the internet. There are diverse examples indicating that the overuse of the internet can cause health problems and mental illnesses‚ which make people become isolated and antisocial. The aim of this essay is to discuss two main factors of causing overuse of the internet‚ addiction and the lack of a daily schedule‚ respectively
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New Research: Internet Censorship To Stop Protests... Actually Increases Protests from the who-didn’t-see-that-coming? dept We’ve been arguing for a while that attempts by various governments to shut down forms of communication during protests and riots only serves to make protesters and rioters angrier. Some new (quite timely) research‚ pointed out by Mathew Ingram‚ seems to agree that internet censorship tends to make such problems worse. The research is a quick read‚ and certainly goes further
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Internet From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is about the public worldwide computer network system. For other uses‚ see Internet (disambiguation). "Computer culture" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Cyberculture. |Internet | |[pic] | |A visualization of routing paths through a portion of the Internet.
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There are 3.2 billion people on the internet. What is your digital footprint? One part of being respectful on the internet is being respectful of other people‚ and keeping your location off. However‚ always be skeptical‚ not all people are who they say they are. In addition‚ always be polite‚ especially when you haven’t met the person before. Although there are disrespectful people on the internet‚ the amount of respectful people on the internet is still very high because there are respectful‚
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There is no doubt that the Internet is one of the greatest humankind’s inventions of the last century. It is fast and easy way to get a lot of valuable information. However‚ some people believe that the Internet creates many problems. From my point of view I think that the Internet brings us advantages as well as disadvantages. First of all‚ I think that the Internet brings us many benefits. People can have access to the latest news‚ weather‚ traffic‚ bid-and-asked quotations‚ etc. Another important
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definitions for Internet addiction during the past decade. Widyanto and Griffiths (2006) present the most general definition of this construct as being a subset of a technological addiction‚ which is defined as a non-chemical or behavioral addiction that involves human-machine interaction. These addictions can either be passive‚ such as viewing television‚ or active‚ such as playing computer games. It should be noted that there are many terms used to describe excessive Internet use: problematic
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What is internet ad? Internet advertising is a way of marketing services or products on the World Wide Web. This can be done through search engine optimization‚ banner ads‚ affiliate marketing‚ email marketing‚ SEM marketing and Web 2.0 strategies. It is also known as Internet marketing‚ eMarketing‚ web marketing and online marketing. Internet advertising allows a product or service to quickly reach a global audience. A major advantage is that Internet advertising is usually far cheaper than advertising
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