"I've had people who found my name on the Internet, and come in saying 'Hey doc, I'm an Internet addict, ' " he says.
But personally, I'm encouraged that internet access is within the reach of people with limited means -- and that many people on the bottom of the economic ladder are using the tools already in their hands to cross the digital divide.
I'm emailing, messaging, tweeting and browsing the internet much more frequently than any sane person should, but I'm lucky if the phone gets me through a standard workday -- usually eight to 10 hours at the most.
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So the market for accessing the Internet via mobile phones m-commerce in the jargon remains wide open.
I'm wondering if the Internet has become this place where you want to desperately improve yourself, so you start typing stuff in?
And that's part of why I'm so glad that the Internet was part of this forum.
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Nor, as late and reluctant Internet users, will they take to m-commerce with the enthusiasm of the early adopters.
Internet growth, which is something I'm focused on, is the fastest in the world in Asia and the emerging parts of Asia as well as in Latin America.
So I'm a big supporter of not restricting Internet use, Internet access, other information technologies like Twitter.
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And we see in polls and we see in movement that more people are moving to the internet and that's another reason I'm very, very optimistic.
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I'm a newbie to this, but the Internet hype machine has promised me a virtual mall to myself.
I'm looking for something that I can access the internet on from the couch or the john with a full HTML browser.
"I'm hopeful that this event will somehow make the Internet kosher for those who have always felt it's prohibited, " said Mr. Fink.
"I'm the most illiterate person when it comes to the Internet, " Winfrey says.
I'm Ed Gordon and this is NEWS AND NOTES. The Internet is a great tool for research, but how many times have you found yourself overwhelmed by search results, when you're trying to find something fairly simple?
M-100 quickly became the most highly discussed headphone on the internet forums with over 10, 000 posts and 700 pages on the world's largest headphone site, Head-Fi.
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The problem is that I'm not alone in using my cellphone as my primary path to the Internet.
I'm going to use that word, virtually, because it is the Internet.
On the services side, I'm going to be looking for anything that takes advantage of the 4G internet connections that are slowly being rolled out across Europe.
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Major service provider Seabone, an Italian company, reported early Friday that there was no Internet traffic going into or out of the country after 12:30 a.m. local time, according to the Associated Press.
Over the past year, for instance, the government has banned lip-syncing to popular songs on television shows and ordered Internet service providers to shut off online videogames between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
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The folks at M Booth recently got together with SimplyMeasure to measure consumer engagement data on the Internet and social media networks.
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I'm Still Here includes footage of the actor apparently taking drugs, surfing the internet for call girls, diving off a stage to attack a heckler and vomiting.
"He said, 'But I read about this on the Internet, and I know this and I know that, and I know I'm right, ' " remembered Golden, an allergist in Baltimore, Maryland.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart, a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
I'm excited to work with the University of Washington and Gigabit Squared to provide new Internet service choices.
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In the meantime, I'm still struggling to check up on Beijing air quality because my hotel's internet connection doesn't like me using Twitter or Facebook, or even sometimes Google.
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