Word: internetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eventually, every service, whether it be voice or simple texting or the most robust Internet application, will just be data riding on top of a robust 4G network," Collins continues. "Focusing on the costs of individual components may be misleading...
...world's knowledge. In 2004, it took a big step in that direction with Google Books, a project that aims to digitize as many books as possible and make them available to the web-using public. The project proved controversial from the start, with U.S. publishers accusing the Internet giant of copyright infringement. Google eventually came to an agreement with them over the issue. But as a New York court tries to decide whether or not the agreement is legitimate, it's now Europe's turn to cry foul, with European publishers complaining the settlement is unfair...
...started hearings of its own to look into the digital future of the book. Just before they started in Brussels on Monday, Google suddenly made some conciliatory gestures towards its European critics. "Books that are commercially available in Europe will be treated as commercially available under the Settlement," the Internet giant said in letters sent to various European publishers' associations. In other words: If a book is out of print in the U.S., but still for sale in Europe, Google would not consider it out of print, and therefore cannot sell it digitally in America. Google also offered to include...
...inexplicable back alleys of the Internet, the cat is king. Images of the beloved household pet have become so pervasive online that they're now something like digital kudzu, in ur internet, cloging ur tubes...
...remember the exact moment when I opened my inbox at an Internet café in Nairobi to see a forwarded e-mail from Marilyn Hausammann, Vice President for Human Resources at Harvard. Painstakingly slow, the page loaded with Hausammann’s announcement of the impending elimination of 275 staff positions. I had been in Kenya for only two weeks, and everything about the thickness of the air, the dirt under my fingernails, and stickiness of the keyboard reminded me of how many thousands of miles I was away from Harvard. I felt disempowered and unable to voice my opinion...