The UAE says the services are a threat to national security because government officials cannot access or monitor users' information.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Now,unless Congress changes the law, network providers can slow or block services of competitors.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

"If you're a poor shopkeeper living in a very impoverished part of Botswana and you're trying to feed your family, trying to buy and sell goods, trying to get medical services for your kids or your employees, and you speak a local language, there's nothing on today's Web that's going to help you,right?

VOA: special.2010.11.08

IOM spokeswoman Jemini Pandya says these families have limited or no access to basic health and social welfare services.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

The United Arab Emirates announced on Sunday that it will suspend BlackBerry Messenger,or BBM, as well as email and mobile browsing services starting in October.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

The development community is divided over whether non-profits should give away or sell technology and services as diverse as solar lighting, water filtration,healthcare and education.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

When we have shortages in one part of the country of beds or intensive-care beds we can ensure that a network of services provides them in another part of the country."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Sullivan,who once served as secretary of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, says minority physicians see a higher percentage of patients with either no insurance, or covered by Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

"So clearly that is a major concern for us. If you think in terms of just basic health services or even more acute health conditions, there is a fear that people who were there at the time of the flooding are not getting the treatment that they should be."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08