These abilities have made networking invaluable to many people in many different areas; however, networking can be limited to a small geographic region or even a single building. ... Wi-Fi networks also work well for small businesses, providing connectivity between mobile salespeople, floor staff and behind-the-scenes finance and accounting departments. Because small businesses are dynamic, the built-in flexibility of a Wi-Fi network makes it easy and affordable for them to change and grow. ... Most hotspots are located in places that are readily accessible to the public, like airports, cof...

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Through early alliances and partnerships with smaller companies, the three record companies soon became global. ... Moreover, they were able to buy out contracts of smaller record companies with music artists, as well as scarce shelf-space. ... However, in order to maintain the loyalty of fans to smaller "indie" bands, labels of small record companies were kept, despite having been bought out by major companies. ... These mergers and acquisitions added to the size of the major record companies, pushed smaller competitors out of the industry, and allowed them to withstand business cycle tren...

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Even small children know the difference between fiction and reality, and their attitudes and behavior are shaped more by their life circumstances than by the books they read or the TV they watch. ... Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior released a 200-page report, "Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence," which concluded, "The effect [of television] is small compared with many other possible causes, such as parental attitudes or knowledge of and experience with the real violence of our society." ... Gratuitous sex and violence has no ...

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Even smaller businesses may find a dedicated Internet connection to be a valuable investment because it provides fast and inexpensive access to a large number of their customers. ... This is a good place to begin a WWW presence. ... Both large and small businesses have taken advantage of this particular aspect of Internet access. ... Although the majority of large companies have well-established physical distribution systems, virtual storefronts have a great leveling effect, instantly transforming small companies into worldwide distributors by providing a source of direct sales. ...

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Bertelsmann was founded in 1835 as a small publishing house for Christian literature. ... Having portrayed the characteristics of the different phases of the Internet strategy of Bertelsmann an emphasis is now put on the four biggest internet-related issues of the company: - its stakeholding in AOL Europe (and other smaller holdings) - its TV-related Internet activities - Napster - E-Commerce At the beginning of the "Internet-Hype- Bertelsmann bought a 49% holding in AOL/Europe. ... However, due to legal and technical reasons the restart of Napster had to be postponed twice and is now...

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Cisco outsourcing all of it's manufacturing and places more focus on the development of new products. ... The company can produce high volumes of quality products at lower costs than that of a smaller rival. ... Additionally, if provoked, buyers can switch their orders between companies at a low cost, thus creating small price wars that force down the prices. ... Cisco is placing great weight on not only identifying, but also responding to and satisfying the needs of its customers. ... Cisco has a history of acquiring companies and places great value in its employees. ...

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The workplace can be transformed from a place to an activity, where location no longer matters. ... People are setting up chat rooms and list serves and virtual smaller communities where they can interact. ... By 2020 computers will be equal to the human brain 2030 it will be equal to the Brain power of small village 2050 it will be equal to the Entire population of US 2060 it will be equal to about Trillion human brains 2100 - one person...

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Moreover, studies suggest that exposure to pornography can prompt children to act out sexually against younger, smaller or more vulnerable children. ... Home computers can be located in places that make solitary viewing impossible. ...

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MP3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer 3, and is a compression format that shrinks audio files with only a small sacrifice in sound quality. ... Reduced file sizes mean smaller download times when transferring songs over the Internet. ... Small, convenient portable MP3 players allowed people to take digital music with them, wherever they went. ... The files are small enough to be downloaded easily, or even attached to an email and sent to a friend. ...

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Capitalist media systems have lead to increased concentration of corporate media ownership, a small number of firms dominate each of the major media sectors. This has based a threat on the "free" market place of ideas, because this "free" market was based on low barriers to entry, making it easier to start up new media channels. ... To the extent that globalisation does exist as an economic process, it is based to no small extent upon the rise of the global communication network. ...

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It may take place at any point in time. communicators of information that create dissention from the status-quo are punished and others that would follow them are subverted from the same expression. ... These stores are limited to their small parameters of what they can and cannot offer. ... For instance, there are several ideas that have been proposed in order to place safeguards to prevent transmission of X-Rated material onto the screens of the child's computer. ...

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Many nations rely on the importance of the internet at all levels and as it continues to expand so does the international community's need to not only utilize it for all of its needs but the concerns of security and control as the global expansion of the internet takes place before our eyes. ... As the global community becomes smaller through the use of communication the international government organizations has had a management entity that has existed almost a century before the internet was established. ... As the international community has grown closer, a need for st...

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A series of local and international programs have been put in place to curb is problem. ... This is evident in that both the take-up of the Internet and everyday use of the Internet are vastly concentrated in rich and predominately white regions, and only subsequently extends to poorer, smaller and rural communities (Willis & Tranter, 2002). ...

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In the wireless world, when you transmit voice or data as well, it is as similar as you say a secret over a megaphone in a public place (Hooper, 2010). ... Providing Extra Security WiMAX is not as same as a local area network designed to connect users in a small area so less robust procedures applies. ...

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However, due to the development of internet, the priority of censorship has been shifted from traditional media to social media on the internet, which is placing a tremendous strain on individual's extent of freedom and there is every indication that this trend will continue. ...

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Introduction Disinhibition is the lack of an inner psychological restraint on an individual allowing or causing one to participate in activities that one may not normally take part in. This effect can be caused by a number of factors including the introduction of a substance such as alcohol or drug...

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INTRODUCTION "The ability of the World Wide Web to penetrate every home and community has both positive and negative implications - while it can be an invaluable source of information and means of communication, it can also override community values and standards subjecting them to whatever more may or may not be found online .... The Internet is a challenge to sovereignty of civilized communities, states and nations to decide what is appropriate and decent behaviour."" Judging by the impression one receives on browsing through articles in the media, it would seem that the Internet will ...

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