Yang said Proview started producing a device called Internet Personal Access Device in 2000 that looks like a small ordinary PC and uses touch-panel technology.
What tempts the likes of Chase, Citi and Merrill to be proactive is the possibility of becoming one of a handful of big firms that dominate Internet personal finance.
Total data storage has seen tremendous growth in the past growing at an average rate of more than 50%, and we estimate that total data storage will continue to observe meteoric growth going forward driven by increased personal consumption as internet penetration grows rapidly.
Travelers checks remain a useful option, but the places you'll exchange the checks overseas offer rates 5% or more worse than what you'll receive using credit cards, so your best bet is to stick with plastic, says Lucy Lazarony of Bankrate.com, an Internet personal finance Web site.
Ultimately, the personal information contained in Internet records is some of the most sensitive out there.
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Peer-to-peer lending, or making personal loans via the Internet using websites like LendingClub.com and Prosper.com.
In the modern workplace, for example, occasional, personal use of the Internet is commonplace.
Its plan was simple--sell low-end, brand-name personal computers bundled with Internet access for a monthly fee.
As young people fill the Internet with personal content, they may find network TV altogether less appealing.
The Republican Party all but abandoned Robinson after he laid out his entire, foible-laced personal history on the Internet.
The children themselves should have had advice on personal safety on the internet.
Consider that parents talk to their kids about drugs, sex, internet and personal safety but the topic of money is somehow taboo.
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Spain and Italy have relatively few personal computers or other internet access, and a more durable tradition of buying from local, non-chain shops.
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Many people are skittish about revealing personal information on the Internet.
The trade in personal data suggests that internet criminals have more or less given up hacking into banking systems and trying to steal databases of customer accounts.
Twine creates your personal gateway to the Internet of Things.
Out of 138 countries tracked and ranked by widespread use of mobile phones, Internet, personal computer as well as regulatory environment and IT infrastructure, China ranks 36th and India 48th.
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Surveys suggested that, while 46% of children said they had given out personal information on the internet, only 5% of parents were aware that this had happened, said Mr Balls.
Swedish police can only request personal details from an internet provider about who own a specific net address if they are suspected of a crime that warrants a prison sentence.
Personal computing and the Internet have been pecking away at the labor landscape for decades, undermining demand for everyone from travel agents to call-center workers while creating jobs in other fields.
At the other extreme, scavenging spare computer power from personal computers on the internet is proving an increasingly effective approach for problems that can be split into a large number of small, independent parts.
Already a school in Manchester, England has a dozen personal computers connected to the Internet by its electric power line.
"I find that the internet becomes my personal planner from paying bills, to buying airline tickets and researching my next destination, " she says.
Smart companies will combine Internet services and personal contact in programs that give their customers the benefits of both kinds of interaction.
There were no personal computers, and no Internet, no satellite radio, no Cable TV, no news, gossip, fashion, or design blogs, no social media, and alas, no Forbeswoman.
But others already feel that spam, computer viruses, fraud and the theft of personal data are making the internet a dangerous place, and that access to their computers needs to be restricted, not opened up.
Just as it took the personal computer revolution, the Internet and smartphones to fully realize the potential of social networks, what if Big Data produces its own meta-effect that fundamentally changes the way we relate to ourselves, others and the world around us?
The good news here is that Google isn't going to be strewing your personal files all over the Internet as banner ads, as the terms of service alone might suggest, provided the files have some privacy settings, as they do by default -- viewable only to friends, for instance.
One data broker told Congress his company relied on public databases or Internet searches to get personal information.
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