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Internet: AltaVista
One of the first search engines for the World Wide Web. AltaVista was born at Digital Equipment Corp (dec) in 1995, the software being developed as a result of an…
Internet: Ain’t It Cool News
A film critique website run by Texas-based Harry Knowles, now the internet’s most prominent film pundit. Ain’t It Cool News has acquired a fearsome reputation among the big film studios,…
Internet: Agent and AIML
Agent A piece of software designed to find and process information automatically, especially across a network. Grandiose claims are made for the potential of agents, but most of them have…
Internet: Advertising Part (4)
Forrester Research estimates that online advertisers will spend €6.4 billion in 2007 in Europe alone; representing 6.3% of the total advertising spends for all media. Some industry sectors are performing…
Internet: Advertising Part (3)
It is not surprising that in these circumstances advertisers have become a lot more cautious in their online activities. Not only do they now display much greater discrimination about where…
Internet: Advertising Part (2)
When the Internet Advertising Bureau re- ported that internet advertising revenue reached $8.2 billion, nearly twice that of the previous year. But in 2001 the market declined by nearly 12%,…
Internet: Advertising
The internet has provided yet another medium through which products, services and brands can be promoted through advertising. For most of the web’s brief history, advertising has been seen as…
Internet: ActiveX Part (2)
This gives them great power and flexibility, but exposes unwary users to potential security hazards. Malicious hackers can easily write small programs that will shut down a computer without warning…
Internet: ActiveX
ActiveX is a loosely defined set of standards from Microsoft for creating software components. Often misleadingly compared with java, the most visible aspects of ActiveX to internet users are controls….
Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (6)
Defying both the industries that claim they are stealing intellectual property and the copyright legislation designed to support them, such as the much criticized and often-defeated Digital Millennium Copyright Act,…
Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (5)
It turns out that the internets uniquely democratic and flexible structure still defies most attempts to censor it, as the continued expansion of pornography sites amply demonstrates. Ironically, some efforts…
Essential Internet: A Private Function Part (4)
Even before the events of September 11th 2001, most governments around the world had started to draft legislation governing access to these virtually unbreakable ciphers. Now armed with apparently hard…
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