An estimated 15 percent of US internet users frequently share content online, while the world average is 24 percent.
Time Warner Cable, another US internet service provider (ISP) pledging to tackle piracy, says it will use pop-up warnings to deter repeat offenders.
The Dow Jones US Internet index is down 11.7% over the past three months, essentially double the decline in the Spyder Trust ( SPY).
In 2012, New Jersey-based intellectual property owner Suffolk Technologies sued Google and US internet service provider AOL over two patents it had acquired from BT.
So far, BT and Scipher have sent letters to lots of US internet service providers - it is not planning to ask individual users to pay to use the web.
Several people familiar with the deal told the Financial Times that the US internet giant will revamp its results page to include prominent links to rival search engines and clearer signposts for its own in-house services.
On top of speeding everything up as promised, we also noticed that our IP address appeared as that of the server we were connected to instead of our local one, which could be a bonus for those trying to access US internet from abroad.
All the major companies that provide us with Internet services are interested in tracking us.
And the government should do more to publicize and alert us about Internet scams, fraud, and fake work-at-home schemes by creating a Virtual Work Hotline.
Author Orson Scott Card gave us an Internet-like network 15 years ago in Ender's Game, a novel in which message boards were used as propaganda vehicles to take over the world.
This moves us all to a world where the Internet shows us what it thinks we want to see, and not necessarily what we need to see.
Our smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, which are letting us take the incredible power of the Internet with us wherever we go, all either have video cameras embedded in them or soon will.
But whether loneliness leads people to the Internet, or the internet to loneliness, it seems that many of us turn to the internet to avoid simply being with ourselves.
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"I think more than half of our turnover comes to us through the Internet now, " To says.
Intuition tells us that the internet is destroying our ability to focus and dissolving our love of focused, authorial narrative.
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Just remember you are a cable companies best customer, if you are anything like us you have Internet access, phone etc.
Maybe the most interesting bit was when Neil Gershenfeld forcefully reminded us that the Internet was never intended to be just a bitnet.
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In other international news, Xinhua and China Daily highlight calls by Chinese and US officials and experts for more cyber-security co-operation and less "blame or accusations without evidence" of state-sponsored hacker attacks, during the US-China Internet Industry Forum in Beijing.
The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.
In a settlement with 38 US states, the internet giant agreed to destroy emails, passwords, and web histories.
If the printing press ushered in the Age of Enlightenment, the internet brought us the Age of Entitlement.
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And the fact is most of us still suffer the Internet through dial-up, the World Wide Wait, as it's become known.
And in June, shares of Japanese companies started trading on Nasdaq Japan, which is a joint venture between the US market and Japanese internet company, Softbank.
But without someone taking the lead and aiming for 100% coverage of the schedule through the internet, US catch-up TV and online access will never climb much higher than the current numbers.
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Many of us depend on the Internet and digital tools in our daily lives -- from shopping at home and banking on our mobile devices to sharing information with friends across the globe.
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Like Twitter has taught us, getting our information in smaller bits and pull quote form enables us to remember it better against all of the clutter the internet for better or for worse provides us.
This equipment creates the smart consumer and industrial products that surround us today and enable the internet and all of modern telecommunications.
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