So, a permission request will be popping up relatively regularly at the moment for internet users.
Non-Internet users spend an average of 16.2 hours per week in front of the TV, compared to 11.6 hours for Internet users.
Internet security has become a major concern for Internet users in China as the scale and nature of security threats continues to evolve.
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Besides, taking into account the growing importance of the online medium, efforts should be directed in establishing a separate Code of Ethics for Internet users.
Look at the number of PCs and how long it took to get to 100 million users, then (what happened) for Internet users and now with mobile usage.
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Privacy advocates fear the loss of anonymity for Internet users.
The failure to enforce privacy laws is bad not only for Internet users, but also for smaller companies and innovative firms that are developing services that comply with privacy law.
That's why it will automatically highlight job postings for Internet users who log on from certain schools with top-notch engineering programs, like Massachusetts Institute of Technology or the University of Michigan.
The project is part of a European-funded initiative, known as Smart ("search engine for multimedia environment-generated content"), which aims to create a system for internet users to search and analyse data from sensors.
The Commerce Department recently called for a privacy bill of rights for Internet users, while the Federal Trade Commission has proposed a do-not-track tool that would let users stop or restrict advertisers from studying their online behavior to target ads.
"There's a bunch of questions that need to be answered because there are ways that this could end up causing problems for Internet users, " such as the bureaucratic headache of being falsely accused, said David Sohn, general counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based civil liberties group.
There are reassuring signs that the SOPA battle has some resonance for Internet users, who now understand the breadth of threats to the Internet and are willing to fight them whether they come in the form of international regulation of the Internet through the UN or trade pacts like the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
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One reason Mail.ru has been so attractive is not only its 75% share of the growing market for internet users in Russia, according to Comscore, but its 2.38% stake in Facebook, 1.47% stake in Zynga Game Network (the company behind the social networking games Farmville and Mafia Wars) and 5.13% of Groupon, the online voucher company that Forbes recent featured on its cover as the fastest growing company ever.
Reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young.
For European Internet users, the deal is getting worse all the time.
"We are in the process of notifying impacted users and recommending that they scan their computers and run current anti-virus tools--good advice for all internet users, " they added.
In exchange for sharing their Internet access, FreedomPop users get credits for more free Internet access.
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But there remains another similar bill, Protect IP (the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act), that poses a problem for gamers and Internet users.
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But Cuban figures for internet access include users of the heavily-censored government intranet, which limits users to certain pages such as email or those relevant to their work, adds our correspondent.
Perhaps the biggest concern for users of Internet phone systems is their susceptibility to the same kind of malicious attacks that cripple personal computers every day.
He and fellow journalist Pernille Tranberg just published a book on digital privacy, Fake It, which admonishes Internet users for, essentially, being too honest online.
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Of these products, the Chrome browser, which was first released in 2008, is important in its strategy to create a differentiated internet experience for its users.
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Is constant connection to the internet realistic for all users?
One lawyer said that if Antigua did set up the mooted media download site it would be legal for UK-based internet users to buy films and music from it.
Wi-Fi is an important component for PCs and tablets as it provides the capability for users to access the internet wherever Wi-fi hotspots are available, typically for free.
And a majority of Internet users will, for the first time, live somewhere other than the U.S. Whatever their gender or location, Internet users will find fewer major players on the Web as mergers and acquisitions make headlines in 1999.
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