Category «Internet»

Transforming the Fight Against Poverty: The Internet & Anti-Poverty Strategies

News release: “The Internet will be the catalyst for advancement of programs promoting social justice over the next decade, according to new research from Harvard Professor Elaine C. Kamarck, PhD. The research paper, titled Transforming the Fight Against Poverty: The Internet & Anti-Poverty Strategies, addresses how the Internet has enhanced productivity in government run anti-poverty …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report 2008

Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, Volume III: “Arbor Networks®, Inc., in cooperation with the Internet security operations community, has completed the third edition of an ongoing series of annual operational security surveys. This survey, covering a 12-month period from July 2006 through June 2007, is designed to provide data useful to network operators so that they …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Internet, Knowledge Management

Nation's First Chief Technology Officer Will Face Significant Challenges

Dan Farber, CNET News: “Obama will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety of our networks and will lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web

Hull D, Pettifer SR, Kell DB 2008 Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web. PLoS Computational Biology 4(10): e1000204 doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204 [Gerry McKiernan] “Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a library has been described as “thought …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Online Viewers at TV Network Web Sites Increase an Average of 155 Percent in September 2008

News release: “Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, today announced that all four television networks enjoyed month-over-month growth in online video viewers in September, coinciding with the season premieres of many popular and new television shows. NBC.com had the largest increase in video viewers, growing 312 percent month-over-month, followed by FOX Broadcasting and …

Subjects: Internet

FCC Adopts Rules For Unlicensed Use of Television White Spaces

News release: “In its continuing efforts to promote efficient use of spectrum and to extend the benefits of such use to the public, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today adopted a Second Report and Order (Second R&O) that establishes rules to allow new, sophisticated wireless devices to operate in broadcast television spectrum on a secondary …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Wireless Web

Social Networking Finds New Adherents in Global Financial Services Sector

IHT: “As the financial crisis deepened and his employer teetered on the brink of collapse, Gautam Bose, a senior vice president at the U.S. bank Wachovia, found a discreet way to ponder his future and that of the financial industry. Bose turned to MeettheBoss, a new online social networking site for financial services executives. It …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet

Online News Readership Grows as Print News Shrinks or Disappears

As print media decline, so does the amount of available information, by David Carr, IHT: “It has been an especially rotten few days for people who type on deadline. Just Tuesday, The Christian Science Monitor announced that, after a century, it would cease publishing a weekday paper. Time Inc., the Olympian home of Time magazine, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ICANN issues proposed guidelines for new generic top-level domains

News release: “Introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is central to fostering choice and competition in domain registration services, and as such is significant to the promotion of ICANN’s core values. The evolution of the namespace towards an enhanced diversity of services and service providers must be planned and managed effectively to preserve the security, …

Subjects: Domain Names, Internet, Legal Research

Commission consults on how to put Europe into the lead of the transition to Web 3.0

News release, September 29, 2008: “Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission today outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the …

Subjects: E-Government, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Internet, Wireless Web