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Mozilla CEO: Don't Understand The Internet? Get Out Of Government
AUSTIN, Texas – The Internet is a way of life for billions of people but some in Washington still don’t seem to get it, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs said on Saturday.
“If you don’t understand the Internet, you don’t have any place in government,” he told an audience at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin.
Given the impact of the Internet on daily life, Kovacs said, he is amazed when members of Congress express a desire to hire staffers who “understand” the Internet.
“It’s not something you learn, or hire someone for. It has to be the way… Continue reading
Internet business Ideas Are Packing Out The New Page From Amn Kickstart Ltd. To Capacity
Internet business ideas are jam packed on a new page that Amn Kickstart Ltd. have put together. The new page has met with positive comments from a number of industry related blogs.
Houston, TX. (PRWEB) March 05, 2012
Online business ideas are making up most of the content on a very busy new page from Amn Kickstart Ltd. People who are interested in these ideas can check out the new page right now.
Dara Connors, one of the Directors on the site said that “internet business ideas are in abundance on our new page. We have been working on them… Continue reading
How the internet has spoiled travel
3 March 2012
Last updated at 06:29 ET
Some of the most remote places in the world are starting to feel less isolated thanks to new technology. This may be good for people who live in them, but for travellers it’s a mixed blessing.
Playa Nancite in the Santa Rosa National Park is a bit different this year. It is still one of Costa Rica’s most remote spots but it no longer has the same sense of isolation.
The change is certainly not obvious.
Getting here requires the same… Continue reading
Internet Hall of Fame to Recognize Landmark Achievements of Internet Pioneers, Innovators, and Global Leaders
WASHINGTON & GENEVA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
The Internet Society today announced that in conjunction with its 20th
anniversary celebration, it is establishing an annual Internet Hall of
Fame program to honor leaders and luminaries who have made significant
contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet.
Inaugural inductees will be announced at an Awards Gala during the
Internet Society’s Global INET 2012 conference in Geneva, Switzerland,
22-24 April 2012, www.internetsociety.org/globalinet.
“There are extraordinary people around the world who have helped to make
the Internet a global platform for innovation and communication,
spurring economic development and social progress,” noted… Continue reading
German Internet users cries foul over Google news law
Germany’s Internet community, gathered at the world’s biggest high-tech fair, was up in arms Thursday at a draft law forcing Google and other similar sites to pay media firms for content.
“This draft is completely backward,” fumed Bernhard Rohleder, director general of Bitkom, the German federation representing high-tech industries.
“We understand that media firms are looking for new ways to make money” when pitted against the Internet and free press, but a new tax “cannot be a substitute for developing genuine strategies for the digital era,” he added.
The draft legislation, dubbed the “lex Google” as it targets mainly… Continue reading
Is There Too Much English on the Internet? [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Internet is gaining users each day — mostly in non-English speaking regions.
That’s because the web’s reach is spreading fast. While it took 30 years to get two billion people online, the Internet is now adding one billion new users every four years.
[More from Mashable: Twitter Now Available in Right-to-Left Languages]
Smartling, an enterprise translation management company, created this multilingual, interactive HTML5 infographic to show who is using the Internet today around the world. Smartling believes that to create a global web, the platform must speak more languages and businesses much adjust their practices to reach new… Continue reading
Internet muscles in on world's biggest IT fair
Internet players are set to make a big splash at the world’s biggest IT fair opening in Germany Monday, likely to widen the event’s appeal from a traditional devotion to pure technology.
While CeBIT, held in Hanover, tends to focus on the business side of technology, it has been overshadowed recently by the gadget wizardry unveiled at other showcases in Las Vegas, Berlin or Barcelona.
“It’s not the attendance figures that count but the contracts which are signed,” Reinhold Umminger, vice-president of CeBIT’s organising company, stressed, ahead of the March 6-9 fair in the northern German city.… Continue reading
