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Leigh Newton

UK Children Go Online | The Communication Initiative Network - 1 views

  • Hence, a new divide is opening up, one centred on the quality of use. The UKCGO survey finds that middle class children, children with internet access at home, children with broadband access and children whose parents use the internet more often are more likely to be daily users and so to experience the internet as a rich, if risky, medium than are less privileged children.
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      Those not falling into this category will lose on the benefits of high-speed, regular internet use.
  • Summary This nationwide survey of 1,500 children aged 9-19 and their parents is part of a research project carried out by UK Children Go Online (UKCGO). Between January and March 2004, researchers conducted in-home, face-to-face interviews, lasting some 40 minutes, of 1,511 children and 906 parents across the United Kingdom.
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      2004 is severely out of date in this field. The figures today are going to be much higher.
  • Currently, 74% have internet access via a computer, games console or digital television
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  • School access is near universal: 92% have accessed the internet at school
  • 88% of middle class but only 61% of working class children have accessed the internet at home;
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    2004 research on UK internet access for children. Presumably the figures have increased since then.
Eric Swanstrom

Bandwidth Optimization Maintains the High-Speeds of Your Organization's Network - 0 views

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    Bandwidth optimization could be a difference maker in maintaining the highest speeds across your organizations network. It essentially allows your business to access the bandwidth you need, exactly when you need it providing your customers the high-speeds they deserve. Bandwidth optimization works primarily through a few key processes: prioritization, caching, and compression.
Eric Swanstrom

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Stephanie Sandifer

Coming soon: superfast internet - Times Online - 0 views

  • At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection,
  • the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
  • “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,”
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  • “Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,”
  • “It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,”
  • “Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.
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    The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
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