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What is Internet service provider?

An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a company or business that provides access to the Internet and related services. In the past, most ISPs were run by the phone companies. Now, ISPs can be started by just about any individual or group with sufficient money and expertise. In [...]

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 New and exciting features

New and exciting features
Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Activities

Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two [...]

342 million dollar-Kizuna will allow super-high speed data communications of up to 1.2 Gbps, which would make it the fastest in the world

 

Japan successfully launches high-speed Internet satellite

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said.
The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre [...]

Time Machine ‘could create time tunnel’

Feb 6, 2008
Switching on a giant atom-smashing machine might open the door to unexpected visitors - from the future, it has been claimed.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), due to come on stream this year, could turn out to be the world’s first time machine, according to two Russian scientists.
Their calculations show it is possible the [...]

Cern scientists build the web of the future

 
There are two notable things about Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
As the world’s leading particle physics laboratory, it is staffed by people with very large brains.
It is also where Tim Berners-Lee, a former scientist at Cern’s Geneva headquarters, invented the worldwide web as a way to share information among the global research community [...]