Category «Internet»

Industry Coalition Issues Copyright Principles for User Generated Content Services

Press release: Several of the world’s leading Internet and media companies today announced their joint support for a set of collaborative principles that enable the continued growth and development of user-generated content online and respect the intellectual property of content owners. The principles serve as a comprehensive set of guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) …

Subjects: Copyright, Internet, Legal Research

Website Tracks Internet Performance of 2008 Presidential Candidates

“The Spartan Internet Political Performance (SIPP) Index is the first quantitative metric to measure the Internet-wide performance of each Presidential candidate for the 2008 election. The Index is comprised of over 650 quantitative factors measuring the level of support and how well each candidate is connecting with individuals across the Internet. The score for each …

Subjects: Internet

National Space Society Report on Space Based Solar Power

National Space Society: Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security – National Security Space Office Interim Assessment Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study, October 10, 2007 Executive Summary Full Report (including Executive Summary), 75 pages, PDF Photos and report of October 10 press conference Still photos and video of SBSP concept Some news reports …

Subjects: Internet

Pew Posting On Doctor-Approved Health Information Online

Pew Internet & American Life Project: “This morning’s NPR story, Patients Turn to the Internet for Health Information, featured data from [Pew’s] e-patients report, but also some research that has been conducted at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) at the University of Wisconsin. CHESS researchers Robert Hawkins and Suzanne Pingree talked about …

Subjects: Internet

One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet Is Arriving Next Week

ICANN: “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will launch an evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names next week that will allow Internet users to test top-level domains in 11 languages… The evaluation is made possible by today’s insertion into the root of the 11 versions of .test, which means they are alongside other top-level …

Subjects: Domain Names, Internet, Wiki

Rand Report – Assessing the Value of Information and Communication Technologies to Modern Terrorist Organizations

Assessing the Value of Information and Communication Technologies to Modern Terrorist Organizations, by Bruce W. Don, David R. Frelinger, Scott Gerwehr, Eric Landree, Brian A. Jackson Understanding how terrorists conduct successful operations is critical to countering them. Terrorist organizations use a wide range of network technologies as they plan and stage attacks. This book explores …

Subjects: Internet

First Internet Census Since 1982

62 Days + Almost 3 Billion Pings + New Visualization Scheme = the First Internet Census Since 1982: “Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on …

Subjects: Internet