Since universities are where much of the early development of the Internet took place, they might have been expected to have pushed its potential furthest.
Over the past five decades it has led to the development of the Internet, lasers, global positioning satellites, magnetic resonance imaging, DNA sequencing, and hundreds of other technologies.
Breyer also sits on the board of BBN, a Verizon spinoff with roots in the early development of the Internet.
The ITRs should be flexible enough so as to further encourage future growth and sustainable development of telecoms markets, while respecting the guiding principles that led to the successful development of the Internet: private sector leadership, independent multi-stakeholder governance and commercial agreements.
However, the rapid development of the Internet and the massive unauthorised on-line use of protected content, where the "commercial" element is often missing, have given rise to a lively debate.
This transformation is being helped by the extremely rapid development of the Internet, which has become a powerful vector for disseminating knowledge.
And that "will be disastrous for the development of the Internet, " predicts Manny Amador, president of the Philippine League for Democratic Telecommunications, an anti-metering group.
With the rapid development of the Chinese Internet industry, users spend more time and conduct more activities online, such as downloading applications, playing games, online shopping, etc.
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Because of its mighty parents, Symbian is a potential powerhouse that threatens to lock Microsoft out of a market that could reach 150m devices by 2005 and may be even more important for the development of the Internet than set-top boxes.
This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call.
Federally funded university research has contributed critical knowledge that in turn led to the commercialization of the Internet and the development of products such as computerized imaging, global positioning systems, smartphones and tablet computers.
In just a little over a century, you already have the discovery of penicillin, the development of fibre-optics and the foundations of the internet and fourteen Nobel Laureates to your name.
"Member states shall have equal rights to manage the internet, including in regard to the allotment, assignment and reclamation of internet numbering, naming, addressing and identification resources and to support for the operation and development of basic internet infrastructure, " it said in a document submitted on 17 November.
It was the development of an open Internet that started AOL down the path of extinction.
The Internet2 is a project of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, a consortium of some 100 U.S. research universities, nonprofit agencies and government entities.
Among the issues the women will be discussing at the three-day summit are ways to bridge the technology gap, including use of the internet in business development, strategies to cope with the economic impact of Aids and war, especially in Africa, financing women's enterprises and understanding trade agreements as globalisation continues to have an adverse impact on developing societies.
And the innovations of so-called "Web 2.0" (terrible name for a pretty continuous development of the Internet) prove there are great companies and products being created in the U.S. using the social dimensions of the Internet.
Both Organizations agreed to collaborate in the development and internationalization of the Internet DNS and to undertake a variety of activities.
The links and resources provided are mainly training and "how-to" guides on development and the use of the Internet and information and communication technologies.
Over the next decade or so, the information-technology revolution is widely seen as being the main driver of growth, and since the rich economies, notably America, have a vast lead in the development and use of computers, telecoms and the Internet, some people worry that this will inevitably cause the gap between the developed and the developing worlds to widen further.
Some would say that bubbles tend to coincide with periods of great economic change, such as the development of the railways or the internet.
But this will require more than just the development of technologies to display the Internet on mobile devices, some of which are already on the launch-pad.
The building efficiency revolution emerges now from the inter-related confluence of the collapsed cost of microprocessors, enabling embedded intelligence in offerings as simple as light bulbs (soon), as well as the development of standards and interfaces for the formerly "dumb" hardware, and the ubiquity of the Internet.
America has to create the next generation of customers who cause new human development, such as the Internet, the auto and aeronautical industries, transistors, satellites, Facebook, everything Apple makes, world-class code, etc.
Because of that, it seems unlikely the change will boost the numbers of internet darlings like Community or Arrested Development, but we can dream, right?
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"Landline text messaging is a disruptive force that will transform both the wireless and wireline service provider businesses, " said David Diggs, vice president of Wireless Internet Development at CTIA - The Wireless Association.
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And we understood that if we're investing in things like a Hoover Dam or DARPA -- the research and development arm of our military that ended up producing things like the Internet or GPS -- that that, in fact, would be good for everybody.
But today, file-sharing is one of the most cutting-edge areas of software development, as high-speed Internet connections allow users to trade music, movies and applications at a blistering pace.
"Export controls remain the most powerful obstacle to the development and free flow of encryption, but they are steadily being relaxed because of the Internet and demands for secure electronic commerce, " the report said.
The Web-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia and the Internet browser Mozilla Firefox are just two of the products whose development relies upon the contribution of a community of online users.
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