Diller was also asked about the legal challenge to Aereo, the new over-the-internet TV service IAC is backing.
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He says voice-over-the-Internet quality will be key to whether the option is viable.
Bamboom has yet to be sued but Ivi was sued right out of the gate when it launched its television-over-the-Internet service last year.
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If the recipient lives in a state that prohibits over-the-internet alcohol sales, he or she will be offered the option to choose a different gift.
One concern with a service that relies on constantly streaming video - albeit compressed - over the internet is that users with monthly download limits may quickly exceed those.
The two areas in which the most hand waving has been done are the ability to provide a quality telephone product over the best-effort Internet and the possibility that providing telephone service over IP might be economically feasible.
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In the long run, sales of digital-music tracks purchased over the internet and revenues from mobile-phone ringtunes, may bring growth back to the industry.
And, you couldn't make a free phone call over the Internet--no one had even heard of the Internet.
Voice-over-Internet apps like Skype allow users to make voice calls over the Internet while instant-message apps from WhatsApp to Kik let people exchange text and photos without being charged for a text message.
"We can offer 10-megabit-per-second connections over the Internet, " boasts Scaglia.
They were two of the most-wanted men in the world, their faces splashed all over the Internet and TV in surveillance-camera images released by the FBI hours earlier.
So Malaysia is wrestling with the dilemma almost daily -- how to stay on the Internet highway on over-drive while catering to an innately conservative system.
In fact, his articles have become a sort of faculty-ownership manifesto -- distributed widely over the Internet and cited in coverage from the Atlantic Monthly to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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It also has a few deals with the makers of set-top boxes to power the software that runs TV guides and on-demand services over the internet and this too could be a way to spread Silverlight usage.
With a few mouse clicks, the co-worker sent a signal over the Internet that remotely shut off the power to a single fan inside a 10-foot section of ductwork directly above the microphone.
Last year's fight over the arcane concept of network neutrality--the absence of restrictions on the type of content that can move over the privately owned networks that comprise the Internet--was just a preview.
The company sends over-the-air broadcasts over the Internet and bypasses traditional cable and satellite operators.
By morning, the money was flooding in over the Internet--nearly a million dollars by the next night--and 12, 000 people signed up to volunteer all over the country.
According to the report, Sony toyed with the idea of dropping the optical drive in favor or making games for the machine download-only over the internet.
Gateway, along with Dell, convinced Americans that buying PCs through the mail or over the phone--and later on the Internet--was a good idea.
Most of these broadcast-partners lack the know-how or capital to pump their own signals over the Internet, so they're happy to have JumpTV install the gear and give them access to a homesick audience hungry for news and entertainment in their native languages.
Teens and young 20-somethings have been drifting away from what over-30s people think of as the Internet for years now.
But apps written to the protocol can be vulnerable to denial-of-service, session hijacking, and man-in-the middle attacks over the Internet, as well as an attacker actually able to "watch" the transactions, says David Goldsmith, CEO of Matasano Security, who will present the firm's new research on FIX at the upcoming Black Hat USA briefings later this month.
Elsewhere, Intel is pushing a new wireless standard, the Wi-Fi offshoot Wimax, that sidesteps cellular service--and perhaps Qualcomm's patents--to let users call over the Internet.
Digital video has moved beyond DVDs and cable set-top boxes to big cinema screens, small screens like the new iPod's and over the Web in the form of Internet-downloaded movies and TV shows.
The researchers administered several rating scales to both groups showing that the Internet over-users were also more psychiatrically symptomatic, with elevated levels of anxiety or phobias, and with significantly more problematic family backgrounds.
You could do the measuring yourself and order custom-made shirts over the Internet.
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"The proposal would deal with the purchase over the internet of virtual goods - sound, music, etc - which you can download, " he said.
In 2008, the company launched YY, a voice-based gaming communications service, which enabled gamers to voice chat over the Internet and text chat in real-time while slaying monsters or coordinating gaming missions.
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At the moment, downloading a song at hi-fi quality over the Internet can take several times as long as playing it, but a number of small companies have set up as online distributors, in the hope that Internet connections will get faster in the next few years.
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