Google has gone into partnership with the ubiquitous cable magnate John Malone and the bank HSBC to give internet access to people in Africa and other nations via LEO satellites. Financial Times: They will today announce an order for 16 low-earth orbit satellites from Thales Alenia Space, the French aerospace group, as the first stage…
Well, that sucks: BUSINESS USE OF IT Key indicators of business use of IT include: adoption of IT (computer use, Internet use, web presence); use of broadband; and Internet commerce (placing and receiving orders via the Internet or web, Internet income). The move to the BCS vehicle has not had a significant impact on the…
More scaremongering, this time from USA Today (article by Kasie Hunt): Al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by Google, to rally support for Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links promoting terrorism and recruit non-Arabic-speaking Westerners, according to terrorism experts and a survey of the sites. It then goes…
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