Information superhighway

...like Japan and South Korea in broadband speed and access. Guy Raz checks in with Thomas Bleha, author of the book Overtaken on the Information Superhighway, to find out why. Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org...

In this article: NPR, U.S., Japan, and South Korea

...to review their communications channels or they may have more than ample time to reflect at perhaps enforced leisure that even an information superhighway has a slow lane. Ian Watson is a senior consultant at CMF Consulting, export...

In this article: Recession, UK, Africa, and Europe

...Core Protections: Take a few minutes to update your core protections -- anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall -- before you get on the information superhighway. Also make certain they are set to automatically update against new...

In this article: Respondent, Zogby International, Symantec, Revenue, Cyber Monday, Twitter, and Facebook

...online grocers -- offering a wide array of food, wine and even kitchenware --- the New York-based company got its start well before the information superhighway received its first coat of pavement. In the 1970's, Joel Dean and Giorgio...

In this article: Dean & DeLuca, Giorgio DeLuca, New York, Washington, Barbecue sauce, RSS Feed, Vinegar, Sweet potato, and Trademark

...caught. Remember the last generation of them? The tech boom of the 1990s saw a lot of money poured into telecom firms that would build the information superhighway - and dotcom outfits that would create all sorts of wonderful services on...

In this article: Bernie Ebbers, Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, US, Allegation, and Capitalism

...their practice, called their detractors anti free speech "zealots" and wrote a book about the practice titled How to Make a Fortune on the Information Superhighway. Pandora's Box had been opened. Now spam comprises the vast majority of e-mail...

In this article: Spam, E-mail, Can-spam, Facebook, MySpace, Bankruptcy, and Monty Python

...less than a year after the merger. As the Internet continued to take off, subscribers realized they didn't need AOL to hop onto the information superhighway. By the end of 2003, losses had mounted, many of the key players in the deal...

In this article: Time Warner, AOL, Revenue, Thomson Reuters, CNET, Twitter, Jeff Bewkes, and Google

...170 sites in 34 countries and will be accessible to thousands of physicists globally. The scientists claim it will change the way the information superhighway works. Small computer grids similar to power grids have been in operation for...

In this article: CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Cloud computing, Switzerland, and Geneva

...content, and learn the new skill set required to offer fully integrated marketing services. For those that are not, it's the end of the information superhighway. Stephen Saunders is an independent media consultant and the founder of...

In this article: Revenue, United Business Media, Twitter, IBM, Pfizer, Microsoft, Merck, and Jonathan Schwartz

...board systems, too. However, the Internet was different. Where the earlier services were destinations, the Internet was, yes, "an information superhighway" that could connect all these services together, eventually bringing hundreds...

In this article: Bob Metcalfe, E mail, UCLA, Computer History Museum, and World Wide Web