Systems integration company Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego offers a product called Open Source Monitoring that scans the Web, newsgroups, Listservs and any other public forums for names and trademarks.

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It will constitute a unique source of information for monitoring how climate change is affecting beaches around the world.

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In conjunction with the large number of respondents who expressed difficulty in identifying the source of troubleshooting issues, this indicates that the development of monitoring solutions may not be keeping pace with the adoption of the technology.

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While that approach ensured that ISPs did not take an active role in monitoring or filtering Internet-based activity, the recent move toward a two-tiered Internet - one in which the ISPs themselves dream of distinguishing between different content as a new revenue source - revived the notion that ISPs could be called upon to play a more active role in monitoring and blocking content.

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