- Cross-cultural comparisons of interactivity on
corporate Web sites: the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and
South Korea.
The advent of the Internet has provided more opportunities and applications for advertisers and marketers in their strategy development because of its advantageous properties such as interactivity, low setup costs, global coverage, and so forth (Pavlik 1996). The Internet is commonly represented as one of the most economy-altering technological inventions ......
- Online Storytellers: Blogging in South Korea
Korea began the twentieth century as one of the poorest countries in the world. The "land of morning calm"-as European tourists called this small East Asian country at the turn of the century-was governed under colonial rule by its neighbor Japan for the first three decades of the century. Immediately ......
- Briefs
Alexandria, Va. — The Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing's latest Pulse survey has found that both TV viewing and Internet usage climbed over the past two years. TV viewing has jumped from 15.8 hours a week in 2000 to 17.2 hours in 2002, while Internet usage jumped from 6.8 ......
- Fiber optic company has its eye on local gas lines
TECHNOLOGY PUNDITS SAY we have yet to realize the true potential of the Internet. Sure, we can access volumes of information on-line and send e-mail across the world almost instantaneously, but most of us are doing it at a snail's pace using standard dial-up modems. A lucky few have digital ......
- Saw.Net partners with NoaNet, taps into
broadband.
NWPPA Associate Member Saw.Net recently completed another phase of a high speed fiber-optic network backbone in the Columbia River Gorge town of Stevenson, Wash. To complete this phase of the network, Saw.Net partnered with another NWPPA Associate Member, the Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet). Late last year, Saw.Net installed four ......
- C(2) Bandwidth test drives fiber-hub concept in Cd'A
COEUR D'ALENE - A new venture here called C2 Bandwidth has launched what its founders hope will be the first of a series of fiber-optic hubs in smaller Northwest cities that will provide big-city Internet connectivity. The company, which is located in a second-floor office at 406 Sherman downtown, aims ......
- Robotic Fiber-Optic Cabling Installation Process Used
In Canadian Sewers.
Ca-Botics Fiber System International Ltd. has announced an agreement whereby Stream Intelligent Networks Corp. will utilize specialized robotic technology to install a high-speed fiber- optic network within a city's sewer system throughout Canada. A first in North America, this efficient and environmentally-friendly technology will effectively provide Canadian cities such as ......