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A few years ago, some people were worrying that a "digital divide" would separate technology haves and have-nots. The poorest lack the means to buy computers and Web access. Still, in America today, even people without street addresses feel compelled to have Internet addresses.

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imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?

Incredibly, there is such a thing. It’s the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It’s a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.

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The Australian government said on Tuesday that it would create a publicly owned company to build a national high-speed broadband network worth 43 billion Australian dollars, or $31 billion, in one of the largest state-sponsored Internet infrastructure upgrades in the world.

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Smarr believes this ultra-broadband will transform the internet for the rest of us. Already in Japan, a one gigabit-per-second fibre-optic home connection costs just $US51 ($A73) a month.

"You're going to see the merging of the virtual and physical world into some kind of new hybrid world," he says. "As we move to having your own personal 'light pipes', the ability to mix the virtual and physical world become quite extreme. Imagine a birthday party where you're in Melbourne, your grandparents are in Japan, your aunts and uncles are in San Francisco.

"With this light pipe and high-resolution video you have one wall of your living room dissolve and there are your grandparents; another wall dissolves and it's the aunts and uncles, and you're in one big room. These are the kind of things that will throw our intuitive sense of the physical world out the window."

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When Sean Dolan saw signs being carried by homeless people, he saw an opportunity. He and his father wanted to drive people to a Web site, so they created PimpThisBum.com as a marketing tool and gave a homeless man a sign with the Web site's address to hold while panhandling in Houston.

Their idea worked.

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Let's look at the most powerful kings there have ever been ever, the great autocrats or even dictators. In any sense that counts except the power of life over death, I have more power than Louis XVI.

I have more power for knowledge and understanding at my fingertips, and at yours. And I don't even have to be sat at a computer. I can just carry a device around with me. He had to summon scholars and ask grave questions.

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I originally wrote this email for internal consumption; Presidents' Day here in the US and President Obama's recent inaugural address got me thinking about the future of the Internet, Google, and the challenges that lie ahead.

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"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

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"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

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Here's to the technologies currently making the web a better place than it was 12 months ago.

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While the world of VidIP has a long way to go before it can capture a large portion of the video broadcasting market, it has made a great deal of progress over the past few years. Most people don’t realize that there are now enough options available online so that you can permanently trash your cable TV subscription and still have access to some of the best entertainment video content available. The only prerequisite is that you have an excellent broadband connection and a computer or laptop.

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Collingwood is the second high-rise estate to be wired up by the non-profit company Infoxchange, with its motto "Technology for social justice". Tenants have been offered a free refurbished PC, a free three-day computer course, and access to email and broadband for $5 to $15 a month, depending on downloads.

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Upset about Bell Canada’s system for allocating bandwidth fairly among internet users, the developers of the uTorrent P2P application have decided to make the UDP protocol the default transport protocol for file transfers.

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Schoolchildren should no longer be forced to memorise facts and figures because such information is readily available on the internet, a leading commentator claims.

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YouTube's most enduring star, Matt Harding, has turned a goofy dance he devised in a Brisbane office block into a global marketing colossus, which now includes the lucrative speaker circuit and a book deal.

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Most of my life I have strived to find new and interesting music, but I am often far too busy to really dig deep and find new artists everyday. Now that I am done with college and have a real job, I find that I have even less time to find new music or even stay up to date with all of the new bands.

I have, however, found some great resources that keep me in the loop with minimal time and effort.

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Conversely, the TV and movie industry want ISPs to disconnect people it has identified as repeat infringers. There would be no involvement from police or the courts and the industry would simply provide the IP addresses of users they believe to be illegal downloaders.

"To shift the burden of proof and require that ISPs terminate access to users upon mere allegations of infringement would be incredibly harmful to individual internet users in Australia," the online users lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia said.

"Every citizen has a right of due process under the law and, when faced with having their internet service terminated, every citizen has the right to ask that the case against them be proven first."

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My hypothesis is this: The rapidly increasing sum of all computational devices in the world connected online, including wirelessly, forms a superorganism of computation with its own emergent behaviors.

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Kevin Kelly writes:

I gave a talk yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's a short talk, only 10 minutes long, so I decided to skip Web 3 - Web 9 and just speak about the upcoming Web 10.0 and what I think will happen in the next 6,500 days.

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File-sharing is no longer just in the realm of frustrated Star Trek fans, with almost every television show that screens in the US or Britain available online within 24 hours at DVD quality or better. Movies are also often available before they even open

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