The results of the poll and ensuing responses via e-mail are proof of just how much the World Wide Web has impacted our day-to-day lives.
Postal services are being liberalised around the world and new electronic services such as e-mail are developing fast.
According to Thierry Malleret, in his new e-book Disequilibrium , these are the forces shaping our world today.
The attractive rates have attracted business from all over the world including companies involved in e-gaming and the space industry but local companies are unable to benefit in the same way as off-shore business.
It has expanded in consumer e-commerce with its Taobao and Tmall platforms, which are among the world's busiest online outlets.
Postal services are being liberalised around the world as new services such as e-mail, fax and data transfer have begun to erode traditional markets.
These are the products that springboard off pre-tailing platforms into the e-tailing world.
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Brick-and-mortar retailers are on the brink of getting parity in the e-commerce-versus-real world shopping wars, but they still cannot afford to lose ground over the holiday season.
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He identifies Asia and Europe as the source of a large percentage of the world's junk e-mail, as well as other countries that are well insulated from American prosecution and lack strong cybercrime laws.
"It's important for African-Americans to see there are other race struggles going on in the world, " says Wells, whose e-book "Black Paris Profiles, " shares the stories of 24 black American and Afro-Caribbean folks who reinvented their lives here.
Companies large and small, many that didn't even have e-mail a few years ago, are increasingly exploiting the Internet to reach new customers around the world fast - as well as to cut costs, shorten delivery time, and even re-engineer fundamental processes.
Three-times world champions Germany are drawn with Cameroon, Ireland and Saudi Arabia in group E for the finals.
The original viruses are parasites on a bacterium called E. coli (much favoured by geneticists, and notorious in the wider world because some strains of it can cause food poisoning).
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