The diffusion of the Internet is widespread amongst many worldwide countries, yet Internet access is still divided along class, education, age and gender lines (Willis & Tranter, 2002). ... Results from a 2001 study on Internet usage are quite disconcerting. They show: • The tertiary educated were almost three times as likely to be Internet users • Younger Australians (18-29) were nine times more likely Internet users than those over fifty • White-collar workers were between three and eight times as likely to be Internet users • A positive linear relationship exi...

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Some examples of these communication devices are: television, radio, Internet, and almost every type of transmission method that exist. These existing devices and their upgrades facilitate the interaction with people around the world, by providing a faster, more reliable and cheaper means of connection. ... If you want to see the person live; connect your computer to the Internet and enable your I.C.Q. and there he is, you can hear and see him at the same time. ...

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Today's culture revolves around the use of technology and the internet. ... The internet is the main factor as to why the government can use technology to obtain more private information. Everyone who has access to the internet is at risk for being targeted by the NSA in terms of surveillance because the internet is like an open field of personal information. ... Internet companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook to extract audio and video chats, photographs, emails, documents, and connection logs, according to documents obtained" ("How the NSA Is Tracking People Right Now"). ....

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First of all, the Internet is the most influential invention in communication. ... The Internet operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ... Another major advantage that the Internet gives to any business is the ability to send and receive e-mails. ... It might be a bit expensive, but it offers a high-speed connection and a very good video quality. ...

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Email about five years ago could only be accessed through internet service providers such as: AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, TexasNet, and institution accounts. Now email can be retrieved and sent over the internet without having these big name internet service providers. ... Email still has delays ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes when you send your email over the internet. ... When it does sometimes work, the conversation on the phone is very choppy will cut off the connection in the middle of conversation. ...

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Now there are devices capable of reading these pulses and taking information from the pulses without any physical connection to the computer. "In addition, computers are being used to facilitate the theft of intellectual property, particularly copyright in computer software and audio-visual maaterials" (Australian Institute of Criminology - www.aic.gov.au) It is well known throughout the world that programs such as Napster and Kazaa (freely available to anyone with the internet) allow anyone to download anything at all, without anyone being able to monitor or enforce the downloads that breach ...

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