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The overall Internet population is more than one trillion. The top 5 countries with the most Internet users are: China, US, Japan, India and Brazil.

6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet

Are you willing to pay for the music you download from internet?

European viewers with specially equipped televisions may be able to watch public broadcasters' Internet television services, which let users catch up on the shows of the previous week, whenever they choose, via their computers.

Useful journals on internet research from Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR).

US government agrees to relinquish some of its control over the internet.

Finland is now the first country to make broadband Internet a legal right.

A proposed law could force UK Internet service providers to disconnect users who repeatedly share copyrighted files

How journalism works today. 17 declarations. (The latest thing apparently and available in 14 languages)

Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has developed a new system that allows non-Latin characters to be used in domain name extensions. This is an interesting progress as it will be beneficial for non-English users. But it surely will face many challenges.

Comics going Digital, Worried about Paper versions

It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.

Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access-philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic engineering and mathematics-to see whether they have a greater im- pact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices and being rewarded for it.

According to Marcus, digital technology creates two opposing cultures: one is creating works with copyright, another is illegally making use of those works. In the academic world, we are fear of copyright law, but outside the academic world we use the internet to download, mix and create another work. And this is where the Creative Commons arrives.

THE ABC has called on the federal government to pass laws ensuring consumers won't have to pay to access any publicly funded content carried on the planned national broadband network, a measure that would give it a huge advantage over its commercial rivals.

As Germany heads into national elections, established political parties are trying to appeal to Web-savvy voters using Facebook and Twitter. But their Internet policies are alienating bloggers and activists, who are using the medium to protest against the political mainstream.