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In the decade since Napster’s launch, selling recorded music has become as much of an art as making the music itself.
A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more soci…
There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have…
For a host of reasons, the new administration needs to develop a national broadband strategy but research suggests that users must be central actors in its design.
Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. Online users who take advantage of cloud applications say they like the co…
There is a demographically diverse group of Americans who already take advantage of mobile acess to data and information. With “cloud computing” on the horizon as the next evolution in mobile access, the make-up of the population of mobile users offe…
Here’s a roundup of the biggest technology predictions experts are making for 2008.
The impacts of high-speed connections extend beyond access to information to active participation in the online commons
Reports on monitoring and censorship of Chinese internet content, particularly news and blogs, are familiar to westerners. We are less familiar with editorials praising a Party official’s meeting with a “netizen,” wishing for a day when it was les…
In China, how three big issues — digital divides, internet cafes, and online games — are spilling into each other.
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