" Sin says it is unlikely that consumers will want to buy electronics from the Internet: "When was the last time you bought a refrigerator?
So probably some of it is erosion from other interesting places to spend your time on the Internet.
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"It is easier for the government to stop a newspaper because they can control things like availability of paper and the printing machines but -- short of getting physical -- it is more complicated to control the internet, " Zorkic said from Belgrade.
The phone, Haven says, is the platform that combines these three streams: it gets input from and monitors its user, is embedded in the mesh of the Internet, and can relay massive amounts of data that could be the basis for useful algorithms.
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It is no coincidence that these wonderful developments blossomed as the Internet migrated further away from government control.
The San Francisco-based investor is now the proud owner of social networking site Bebo after buying it from internet giant AOL last month.
Now it is possible to have friends and internet pals (pen pals reborn) from all over the world.
It is a long way from the original dream of click 'n borrow, but then the Internet was never going to change business in predictable ways.
Now it is much more receptive to ideas and services from the outside, even posting challenges on the internet for people to come up with new ideas.
When it comes to finding legal streams for movies on the internet, the situation is improving from year to year but there is still much work to be done.
So it is fair to extrapolate from Amazon's experience and conclude that other consumer products will sell on the Internet.
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Because the Wireless Plus creates it's own Wi-Fi network, there is no need to stream or download your content from the Internet or to spend money on a data plan.
Its URL is inaccessible and the company it is registered to, the San Francisco-based Craft Internet Holdings, didn't return calls from Ecomplaints or FORBES GLOBAL. Ecomplaints steered the disgruntled crafts buyers, with their permission, to competitors and pocketed a couple hundred bucks in referral fees.
" According to the interpretation, it "appears that business requests from Belarus cannot be served over the internet if the service provider is using online services located outside of the country, " and police (as well as the secret police) are authorized to "initiate, investigate, and prosecute such violations.
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That is, unless I went and downloaded some file from the back alleys of the internet which it happily directed me to.
The interactive nature of Washington's Webcast certainly qualifies for Hardie's definition of "unique and indigenous to the Internet, " but it's not something a government organization is likely to set up overnight from scratch.
The judges have now varied that order on the grounds that internet access is such an important part of modern life that banning someone from it is a breach of their human rights.
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