But whether loneliness leads people to the Internet, or the internet to loneliness, it seems that many of us turn to the internet to avoid simply being with ourselves.
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The study showed 30% of the women we surveyed used the Internet to earn more income, 80% used the internet to improve their education, and 85% said the Internet provided them with more freedom.
The Imp uses WiFi and a cloud service to make it easier than ever before for vendors to internet-enable their products, bringing the power of the internet to places and devices it could never reach before.
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Of particular interest to me in the area of wireless applications are companies that are developing smarter applications that do not require an Internet browser to provide access to Internet information.
"Member states shall have equal rights to manage the internet, including in regard to the allotment, assignment and reclamation of internet numbering, naming, addressing and identification resources and to support for the operation and development of basic internet infrastructure, " it said in a document submitted on 17 November.
Some Internet protocol addresses were linked to an Internet domain name registered to someone called Si Wen in Tianjin.
The internet is not a legal vacuum and, according to the Internet Watch Foundation, service providers are expected to implement reasonable, practicable and proportionate measures to hinder the use of the Internet for illegal purposes.
Social will be an essential component of the internet, wherever the Internet goes and, as we are about to explain, the Internet is going to a great many places most of us never pictured before.
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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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As the consumer Internet gets into its second decade, one trend is to bring the Internet to devices that have been largely untouched so far.
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It was then piped back to Choice One's own switching office where the Internet traffic was sent to the Internet and the voice was converted and dropped onto the regular phone network.
As holiday shoppers turn to the Internet to find bargain-priced gifts, toy givers should beware: Even though the U.S. government has banned manufacturers from shipping toxic toys, many of those products continue to be available for sale on the Internet.
Because of the spectacular ability of the internet to record the actions of everyone using it, when each of the aforementioned disciplines is applied to the internet, measurement is easier than it has ever been.
The Fly Delta app for iPad features a "Glass Bottom Jet, " through which customers will have the ability to view the ground below in a unique way that includes maps, social networks and internet content while connected to the Internet on any of Delta's more than 800 Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft.
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The real answer to securing the Internet of Things is to think about ways to change the Internet protocols themselves and introduce unequivocal authentication.
In all countries, the heaviest users of the Internet tended to be males under the age of 35 who have been connected to the Internet for more than two years, according to the study.
Pairing the tethered iPhone with the BC2 allows you to easily provide internet access to all of your devices wherever you need internet access, on your terms.
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Third, departments and agencies will use our preexisting engagement with communities to provide information about Internet safety and details about how violent extremists are using the Internet to target and exploit communities.
The group also used the internet to promote stocks and publicise fake websites to induce investors to capitalise on the internet boom, prosecutors said.
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Net neutrality contends that the company that connects you to the Internet does not get to control what you do on the Internet.
"It would seem to make sense to categorize all Internet access services uniformly, regardless of the facilities used to obtain Internet access, " the commission says in the brief.
But Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute who has tracked the NSL issue, says that NSLs sent to an Internet service like Google could still be used to de-anonymize Internet content when the FBI knows an IP address but not a name or other identifying details.
Leveraging its superior inventory management skills, this year Borders opened a new fulfillment center to be used to ship orders made over the Internet and also to ship special orders to stores fast enough to match the Internet's speed of delivery on rarer books.
While most of us aren't too worried about someone at an Internet provider seeing our messages to Aunt Sophie, businesses, law firms or hospitals who use the Internet to communicate privileged information might have more reservations.
The tech giant was told three years ago it must offer users something other than its own Internet Explorer browser to access the internet.
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Unsurprisingly, younger consumers are also more Internet savvy. 44 percent of them said they need the Internet to help make purchasing decisions, while only 16 percent in the older age group depend on the Internet in their purchases.
"Among current non-internet users, almost half (48%) say the main reason they don't go online now is because they don't think the internet is relevant to them -- often saying they don't want to use the internet and don't need to use it to get the information they want or conduct the communication they want, " said the report.
Allowing a wider variety of domains to exist will create more choice on the Internet and potentially spur innovation, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, the nonprofit that regulates the world's Internet domain names.
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