The exact method being used to cut off the internet in Syria is unknown, one security expert said, but there are clues.
Their aim, which appears to have been achieved by the cut price Internet brokers, was to make share dealing accessible to the general public - to "bring Wall Street to Main Street".
The surge in use in April can be attributed to the cut-throat competition in the internet access market.
What is surprising, however, is that only Google makes the cut among Internet companies.
Syria has been cut off from the internet.
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As I understand the new agreement and subsequent comments, which are about as cryptic as a copy-protected DVD, ISP's have agreed to implement a standardized "graduated response plan" through which offending users are warned, restricted and eventually cut off from the Internet for successive violations.
As part of the tax cut, Internet bookmakers agreed to return home from places like Antigua.
This was more a cyber-riot than a war, but it forced Estonia more or less to cut itself off from the internet.
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The resourceful Scott family ultimately used the Internet to bypass the brokers and cut a deal directly with the First Affiliated Hospital at the College of Medicine of the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.
He also cut off access to the open Internet for the computers with the cash register software.
Syria has reportedly cut off all access to the Internet according to Akami and web monitoring firm Renesys.
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His decision to cut the umbilical cord with his internet service provider is being done in the name of research.
Gordon, who became president in January 2004 and chief executive that July, gradually chopped head count by 16% to 675, cut redundant departments and embraced the Internet.
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In other words, traffic from Syrians accessing the Internet in the moments before they were cut off from the rest of the world looks remarkably similar to traffic from any part of the world.
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Jackson's war with middlemen has now moved to the Internet, which he says is going to cut the costs of distribution for smaller wineries in half.
The internet has been cut off and mobile phones have been disrupted in Syria, monitoring firms have said.
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With discounting squeezing profit margins down to 3-4% and the Internet threatening to cut them further, Europe's big operators see scale as their best defence.
He went to the main square in Cairo that morning, talking with a friend on the mobile phone before both Internet and cellphone networks were cut off by Egyptian authorities in the morning.
The planning minister, Guido Mantega, touts a shift in procurement from bureaucrats to the internet, which could cut costs by 30%.
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In October, the company cut jobs at its Fingerhut Internet sales and catalog unit, which had been plagued by credit problems.
Mark Roberts of Montgomery Securities, a San Francisco investment bank, points out that the one soon to occur in the Internet will be particularly savage because it depends on the fickle and cut-throat consumer market (businesses such as mobile telephones and fax machines began in the corporate market).
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Lazard Freres analyst James Winchester says UPS has not only increased orders thanks to the Internet, but has also cut costs.
In December of 2011, and again in February of 2012, the American people took to the Internet to tell Washington in no uncertain terms that letting the payroll tax cut expire was not acceptable.
The suspected offenders could be fined or have their Internet connection cut off for a year by a recently-set up state agency known as HADOPI (the High Authority for the Diffusion of Works and Protection of Internet Rights).
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Andrea Rubinsky , 17, said she did not feel any worse for using the Internet, even though she had cut the time she logs on from up to 15 hours a week to just three.
Telephone and internet services to the village had been cut, he added, making it difficult to verify reports.
The ministry also said leaked consultation documents on the Internet, which proposed a 50 percent cut, were inaccurate.
Deposed Egyptian president Hasni Mubarak famously cut off Internet and mobile phone service in Egypt at the height of the Arab Spring demonstrations that led to his ouster.
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In case you missed it, Wi-Fi lets you cut the cord you've heretofore used to reach the Internet and access your fast connection from the far side of the house without need for an extra cord to maintain the connection.
Such services, which make possible very cheap (or even free) calls by routing part or all of each call over the internet, have forced traditional telecoms firms to cut their prices.
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