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Back in the old days, your grandpa had to walk 50 miles to his schoolhouse while barefoot in the snow, carrying a bushel of 30-pound books not to mention hot potatoes in his pockets to ward off hypothermia, leading to second-degree burns on his fingertips and wrists. However, he has nothing on you, for you have battled the evils of modern day, proven far greater by science than the average blizzard walk. Basically, the Internet hates and wants to punish you. Thus, there are scourges like... toasted leg syndrome , in which your laptop hopes to wound and mottle your thighs; text neck , which might throw your whole alignment off and lead to years of back pain and an addiction to the chiropractor; carpal tunnel, and don't we know it; not to mention an overall unhealthy relationship to the Internet and a sense of codependency upon your tech devices. But now, the Internet has done it. The Internet wants to kill your sperm, says science.
The Internet Is Out to Kill Your Future Babies - New York News - Runnin' Scared
General Assembly Should Regulate Video Sweepstakes Industry RALEIGH – A new Cherokee Gaming Compact under consideration by the Governor and State Legislature will expand legal gaming in North Carolina and should open the door for a regulated video sweepstakes industry says Chase Brooks, president of the Internet Based Sweepstakes Organization of North Carolina. “We are pleased to see the Cherokee nation will contribute a percentage of their new ‘live-dealer’ games to the State of North Carolina,” says Brooks. “That will be a windfall for the state’s treasury. A new compact will also create new jobs and economic opportunity for western North Carolina. It will also put the Legislature and the Governor on record supporting new gaming rights and regulations,” said Brooks. “As the Governor and Legislature looks at new gaming rights for the Cherokee, we want them to take a second look at the video sweepstakes industry.
Internet-based sweepstakes organization wades into Cherokee-reservation 'live gaming' | Mountain Xpress | Asheville, NC
3 Doors Down's Todd Harrell Thinks The Internet Is A 'Double Edged Sword'
(RTTNews) - 3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell thinks that the internet has changed the music industry, saying in a recent interview that the internet's effect on the music industry is both positive and negative. "You know, the Internet is a tool that's changed things. You can say good things and bad things about it. It is a way to get the music out there. It's kind of a double-bladed sword. On one hand, the internet is a great tool for unknown artists to be discovered.Google Isn’t ‘Dominant’ in Internet Search, Schmidt Says - Businessweek
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, isn’t “dominant” and competes against companies including Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., Chairman Eric Schmidt said in a written response to lawmakers’ questions. “Google has many strong competitors,” Schmidt said in answers released today by the Senate antitrust subcommittee. “Google has none of the characteristics that I associate with market power.” The Federal Trade Commission is conducting an antitrust investigation into whether Google is harming competition. The government is seeking to determine whether Google is dominant enough to control prices and exclude competitors, which would put it in violation of antitrust laws. Google is seeking “to obfuscate the relevant market issues and just say that everything in the world competes with Google,” said Robert Lande, a University of Baltimore law professor.
Shares lifted 6% in after-hours trading on Wall Street last night as Google’s figures countered expectations for a slight slowdown in the company’s growth rate. Chief executive Larry Page said it had been a “great quarter“ for the firm, adding that its social network Google Plus now boasted more than 40 million users. It is the second time that Page has beaten analysts’ forecasts since he replaced Eric Schimdt as chief executive six months ago. Google would have made more money without heavy investment in new projects and staff numbers.
Internet giant Google keeps on growing - Business News - News - nebusiness.co.uk
This Week in Internet Censorship: Blocking Social Sites in Pakistan and Syria; Freedom House Releases New Report | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This week brings new restrictions in Syria and Pakistan, while watchdog group Freedom House releases a new brief on the growing challenges to Internet freedom. Syria Blocks WordPress This has been a tumultuous year for Syrians and for the Syrian Internet. In response to protests beginning in February, the Syrian government unblocked Facebook, Blogspot, and YouTube for the first time since 2007.
By Jaime Lutz, Globe Correspondent A new program will give low-income residents in all communities served by Comcast nationally, including much of Massachusetts, discounted access to computers and the Internet, the company and state officials announced today. Comcast estimates that 2 million people nationwide will be eligible for the program, which will be funded entirely by the communications company. Within Massachusetts, the program will be available in 238 communities.
Cable provider to provide discounted Internet, computers to low-income families - Metro Desk - Local news updates from The Boston Globe
More than one-third of all Americans are not connected to the Internet, according to a 2010 report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration . Of those not connected, many are low-income families that do not have a computer and/or cannot afford Internet costs. Comcast and its partners are offering an opportunity for those families to get hooked up through its new Internet Essentials Home Internet Service . The new collaboration with nonprofit One Economy and technology companies Dell, Acer and Microsoft offers low-cost Internet access of $9.95 per month to qualifying families.
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AFP is a global news agency delivering fast, accurate, in-depth coverage of the events shaping our world. SAPA-AFP provides news to the South African market... Choi (not his real name) is among hundreds of thousands officially considered to be Internet addicts in South Korea, one of the world’s most wired nations. Now the 16-year-old student is undergoing therapy at the “Save Brain Clinic”, which opened in early May and styles itself as the country’s first specialist clinic for such addicts.
Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for now - Business - US business - msnbc.com
SAN FRANCISCO — It's starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year. But here's something to keep in mind as the latest case of Internet fever grips Wall Street: It's still nowhere close to the giddy days of the dot-com boom, when investors bought stocks as impulsively as lottery tickets. Technology stocks today are the cheapest in more than nine years, at least judging by one benchmark for appraising companies. This year could yield the most initial public offerings of technology stocks since 2000. But the venture capitalists who bankroll high-tech startups aren't pouring money into the Internet like they once did.SINGAPORE June 20, 2011 (AP) Hundreds of new website suffixes should begin appearing by late next year after the organization that oversees the Internet address system voted Monday to greatly expand domain names. The new domains could be categorized by subjects including industry, geography and ethnicity and include Arabic, Chinese and other scripts, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said at a meeting in Singapore.
ICANN Approves Expansion of Internet Domain Names - ABC News
Internet body approves new web suffixes
Major companies can now replace ".com" with their own brand, in the biggest change to domain names since the creation of ".com" 26 years ago Singapore: A global body that charts the course of the internet voted on Monday to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes by private companies, enabling major firms to replace ".com" with their own brand. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposal at a meeting in Singapore despite fears that opening up new suffixes could cause some confusion.[Infographic] US Trails in Internet Penetration Behind New Zealand, Australia, South Korea & Japan
In the United States and Western Europe, the Internet is ubiquitous. Or, at least it seems that way. But, did you know that New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan all have higher rates of Internet penetration than the U.S.?Updated. Comcast is testing a new TV service at MIT that will be delivered over Internet Protocol, according to the WSJ . This still uses Comcast's network, but the Internet Protocol part is new. It would potentially allow new devices to be used as set-top boxes, such as computers and videogame consoles. But it is still delivered over Comcast's network -- this is not a service that would let you watch TV on any Internet connection. (We've updated this post after receiving more details about how it works from a source familiar with the situation.