Posted by Terry Daniels on February 4, 2012 ·
DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – FordDirect and Ford Motor Co. right now announced their Web Dealers of the 12 months and eCommerce Elite winners.
Offered yearly at the Nationwide Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention and Exposition, the Ford and Lincoln World wide web Dealer of the Year awards honor best dealerships for achievement in World wide web revenue. There [...]
Posted by Terry Daniels on February 3, 2012 ·
On January 18, millions of concerned Internet citizens and companies banded together to successfully combat the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA), pieces of legislation that many believe could annihilate the Web as we know it. Thanks to this mass effort, those bills are now political poison, and have been shoved off the congressional agenda indefinitely.
This [...]
Posted by Terry Daniels on February 1, 2012 ·
WASHINGTON & GENEVA–(Business WIRE)–
In its continuing efforts to foster an open Web ecosystem, the Internet
Society right now announced a 1M USD donation to the Planet
Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This donation, the final installment of
the Web Society’s 2009 pledge of two.5M USD above three years,
supports the continued evolution of W3C as an organization that generates
[...]
Posted by Terry Daniels on January 30, 2012 ·
With the dust now settling right after this month’s defeat of the work to rush approval of , two controversial “anti-piracy” bills in Congress, it’s time to take stock: We noticed an exodus of political support and the derailing of SOPA and PIPA within days of the January 18 Great World wide web Blackout, a coordinated on the internet protest that prompted hundreds of 1000′s of calls [...]
Posted by Terry Daniels on January 27, 2012 ·
The Net proved the only genuine type of free communication throughout the Arab Spring and yet the West has come to take the freedom it confers for granted, Google boss Eric Schmidt said Friday.
In a stout defence of World wide web freedoms at the Globe Financial Forum in Davos, Schmidt also mentioned that rather than be seen as contributing to work losses, the internet was a wonderful opportunity [...]
Posted by Terry Daniels on January 24, 2012 ·
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire -01/24/12)- American Internet Providers (AIS), a primary provider of enterprise-class information center, cloud and connectivity providers in the western United States, right now announced it has expanded its family members of Enterprise High Availability (e-HA) answers. An addition to the AIS portfolio of Enterprise Managed Providers (EMS), AIS e-HA two. provides state-of-the-art [...]
Posted by Terry Daniels on January 20, 2012 ·
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union‘s Net czar has additional her voice to resistance of the Quit On the web Piracy Act, in an unusually open comment on U.S. legislation.
Neelie Kroes, the EU’s Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, tweeted Friday “Glad tide is turning on SOPA: don’t want bad legislation when really should be safeguarding advantages of open net.”
The piece [...]