Many countries have shale gas, but, as it did with the internet revolution, America leads in exploiting it (see our special report this week).
It happened again with the Internet in the 1990s when new competitors usurped laggards too slow to embrace it.
Novell's somewhat stand-offish attitude to the Internet has done it no favours with the current generation of Internet-centric customers.
Mr Malone has some claim to having been among the first to see the 500-channel digital-television future but not precisely the way in which it would be interwoven with the Internet.
After taking the picture of the sign, it will appear on the camera's display with the translation, having looked it up on the internet through a wireless connection.
But after looking it up on the internet with his father, Alex, they discovered that it was likely to be a rare form of vomit from a sperm whale.
They haven't compared the cost of selling a product on the Internet with that of selling it in the traditional retail outlet.
Google again showed why it is the biggest name in the internet, with 143 million unique visitors, 82% of the total pie, watching almost 2 billion sessions.
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The study is available online at no cost and with the help of the Internet, it has provided a basic reference for congressional and federal hearings and has helped create curriculum for graduate programs, Carpenter said.
The conversation dives right it with a discussions of the Congressional bill on Internet music pricing.
It combines the powerful social and Internet experience of Windows Phone with the ability to take pictures in almost any conditions and share with friends in seconds, as well as access to thousands of the most popular apps, including exclusive Nokia services.
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Since then, the BBC has found itself under almost constant fire, not least in the newspapers which now compete with it, as they extend their businesses onto the internet.
It means that nearly half of the people in the world with access to the Internet are using Facebook, and more likely than not, most others are interacting with it due to the ubiquity of likes, shares, and business pages.
The firm says it has deals in place with PCmakers and Internet access firms to load the new software, still in testing, onto 1 million computers by next June.
And cable is widely held to be the best way of delivering high-speed Internet access, and with it the whole of the digital future.
However, Google considers the trial a threat to freedom on the Internet because it could force providers with an impossible task - pre-screening the thousands of hours of footage uploaded every day onto websites like the Google-owned YouTube.
It's here where he holds meetings throughout the day, over the Internet, with the staff in Baghdad, or at with those who can make it to work.
It also makes it easier to browse the Web with Internet Explorer and to access games through Xbox Live.
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Then technology changes as it has done with Kickstarter appearing on the internet.
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"With the Internet, it's easier to find and sell items, " he says.
But even with the Internet, it's a problem constantly obtaining new information.
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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In this era, it believes (with almost everyone in the internet industry), content will no longer be generated by a few large, wealthy firms, but by users themselves, through their photo and video blogs, podcasts, hyperlinks and so on.
Over in the UK TV interaction has a wider history thanks to Red Button services, and the BBC is finally coming through on its promise to join that experience with the internet as it launches its first companion app on iOS and Android.
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The firm says it has deals in place with PC makers and Internet access firms to load the new software, still in testing, onto a million computers by next June.
The story has generated an online debate, reports the BBC's Beijing correspondent Martin Patience, with some internet users seeing it as an example of the rich flouting the country's laws.
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The video chain is also expanding its offerings with videogames and videogame consoles, and it reportedly is flirting with the idea of renting DVDs over the Internet.
Starting with the original Napster, the internet continues to prove that it can route around any breakdown, including legal ones.
With the advent of the Internet and e-commerce, it's now possible to be a complete hermit and still shop 'til you drop (your mouse, that is).
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