Even though Internet-based technologies are improving billions of lives everywhere, some governments feel excluded and want more control.

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Using Internet-based technologies, consumers will be able to manage their demand more efficiently with clear and present price signals.

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The market dictates that IBM software work well on its competitors' platforms, but the Internet-based integration technologies that IBM has chosen are at odds with those that Microsoft has picked.

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O. of Digital Sky Technologies, a Moscow-based Internet investment company that has reportedly acquired a stake of nearly ten per cent in Facebook.

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In 2012, New Jersey-based intellectual property owner Suffolk Technologies sued Google and US internet service provider AOL over two patents it had acquired from BT.

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The now-antiquated legislation made scant reference to the Internet and handed down different rules for technologies based on whether they were called "information" or "communications" services.

FORBES

From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.

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But the company is struggling to establish itself as a leader in SaaS. It has spent a substantial amount of time and money migrating its technologies to web-based front-ends enabling access to its services via the Internet.

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