But this morning's opening session did offer some wider perspectives on the future of the internet.
Eriksson said what was at stake in the Swedish courtroom was the future of the Internet itself.
The future of the internet is a mixture of closed and open models.
With billions of dollars and the future of the Internet at stake, the battle will grow more intense in the coming weeks.
The question is, the people who are concerned about the future of the network, the future of the internet going a different direction.
They are setting an example for organizations worldwide, illustrating their understanding of how important deploying IPv6 is to the future of the Internet.
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This week, the world's leading figures in technology, business and politics are meeting at the Davos conference in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the future of the Internet.
All this bickering over the future of the Internet may not matter in the end if Stevens does not pare down his bill to a reasonable size.
And if all it takes is a hit in ad revenue, what does that say about the future of the internet (and browsing) as we know it?
The 8th annual Web 2.0 Summit kicks off in San Francisco this afternoon for three days of some high level talk about the future of the Internet business.
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Isn't the future of the Internet wireless these days?
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Wilson told CNN he had complied with the State Department's requests but acknowledges his next step will be to find an attorney who can help him fight for what he believes is a battle about the future of the Internet and the future of information control itself.
One debate concerns the future governance of the internet: should it be directed by governments, or should it be left to the private sector to develop inventively (and somewhat anarchically)?
According to a Pew study conducted last year, ("Future of the Internet") 67% of internet experts agreed that by 2020, millennials will continue to share their enthusiasm for widespread information sharing in order to stay connected and take advantage of social, economic, and political opportunities.
The document consists of two parts: an assessment of the take-up and use of the Internet and priorities for future action, as requested at the Nice, France, summit of EU leaders last December.
His 1999 book "In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity" anticipated the American Internet stock crash of 2000.
But this incident is bringing to light some of the more unsavory elements of free speech, and the internet communities of the future should be paying attention to where things go from here.
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The Mozilla Ignite Challenge is a multi-stage competition in which Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invite designers, developers and everyday people to brainstorm and build applications for the faster, smarter Internet of the future.
The automobile of the future will connect to the Internet, sending and receiving information that will update drivers and passengers on the go.
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The writer William Gibson said that the future is already here, but not very evenly distributed, and the Internet of Things is a classic example of an unevenly silted future.
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Mobile-phone companies could become the credit companies of the future by offering customers the ability to pay for goods on the Internet while putting the charge on the customers' phone bills.
The App Internet is the future of software architecture and the foundation of how people get stuff on their mobile devices (we call that mobile engagement).
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As first Apple, then Google's Android, showed that easy access to the mobile internet was the future of phones, the giant of the industry appeared asleep at the wheel.
Businesses and consumers need to pay very close attention to this issue, and be aware that the transition to IPv6 is key to the future health and growth of a robust global Internet.
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Do you think recording industry can have a strong future in the face of the Internet?
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They reckon that the Net will be one of the main ways in which people get their entertainment, so today's television companies must regard themselves as the Internet companies of the future.
So it might surprise that casual observer that Navin sees the future of Internet television not as a revolution, big Internet vs. big TV, but a slow-changing phenomenon where new and established must cooperate.
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If you want to understand the future of the world's stock exchanges, consider the present state of internet auctions.
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I, on the other hand, take the stance that some future scenario of power outages, collapse of infrastructure, and demise of the Internet is not required to incite action.
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