As Asian business takes to the Internet, English may even lose its place as the unchallenged lingua franca of the web.
The entire film is thought to be around an hour long, although most have only seen a 14-minute trailer which has now been widely circulated on the internet in English and Arabic.
Much of the information about year 2000, particularly what's on the Internet, is in English, he points out.
Rock concerts bring in the money, along with seminars, and advertising on Internet websites (in English, German and Russian, as well as Japanese).
Credit satellite TV and the Internet for spreading the English language.
AQAP's profile has risen in lockstep with that of Mr. Awlaki, who gained a wide following on the Internet thanks to his flawless English and heated sermons.
If current growth rates continue, it says, the number of Internet users accessing the Internet in languages other than English (predominantly, in Chinese) will overtake English language users by 2015.
It is also likely that the development of tools to support greater multi-lingual and multi-script use of the Internet will lead to further rapid growth in digital heritage in parts of the world that are currently disadvantaged by the predominant use of English on the Internet.
And the lack of Internet content in languages other than English is a problem.
Erkki Liikanen, the European Commissioner overseeing the move, had told MEPs fragmented information available on the internet not only discriminated against non-English speakers but could also be piecemeal and unreliable.
Writing in his blog, Mr Royston applauded a recent podcast conversation in English now gaining a measure of internet fame.
Even more striking was a second victory won by Mr Akhmetov earlier this year, against Obozrevatel (Observer), an internet news site that does not even publish in English.
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Also, offering automatic captioning for English first did make sense because English is the lingua franca of the internet, so they probably had heaps of data about it and the demand for autocaptioning in it was great.
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Currently, Internet access is most attractive to young, educated, English-speaking Chinese who can use the Net as a window to the world and a means to communicate with friends and ex-classmates living abroad.
Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.
English was entrenched as the founding language of the Internet by the Domain Names System (DNS) which accommodates hundreds of millions of web addresses around the globe.
In all, 46 percent of non-Hispanic blacks and 51 percent of English-speaking Hispanics reported using their phones for internet access, compared with 33 percent of non-Hispanic white Americans.
Of course there are downsides to living in the countryside - with seclusion and space come inevitably higher transport costs, poor mobile phone coverage and slower internet speeds - but the stats defy any notion that the English rural scene is threatened.
Just this week, the English High Court ordered six of the country's Internet service providers to block access to the Swedish site The Pirate Bay on the grounds that it induced its users to infringe copyright.
Observers say the company has struggled to establish its mostly English-language content in the region's TV and Internet markets.
But the best way for curious Americans to watch Al Jazeera in English will be on the Web those with broadband Internet service can see it for free.
Though the Internet boasts users from dozens of countries, the alphabet is dominant, as is the English language -- a legacy of the Net's North American origins.
The English Football Association (FA) insisted the decision to air the match on the Internet was out of their hands.
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