The digital divide refers to the gap between those who can effectively benefit from information and computing technologies (ICTs) and those who cannot. The term is a social construction that emerged in the latter half of the 1990s, after the Internet...

The term digital divide refers to the gap between those people with effective access to digital and information technology, and those without access to it. It includes the imbalances in physical access to technology, as well as the imbalances in...

A great mountain range divides Utah down the middle. Across the centuries, rivers cut through the mountain range, opening transportation corridors. Primitive man followed those natural paths and left his mark - petroglyphs and pictographs. While this communication system obviously worked,...

MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-05-2006 Digital divide -- TV ENTERING NEW TECHNOLOGICAL AGE By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER Date: 03-05-2006, Sunday Section: BUSINESS Edtion: All Editions It used to be a question of brand: Sony? Zenith?...

Now that more than 1 billion people use the Internet, international policymakers and computing experts are struggling with how to link the world's other 5 billion to the increasingly crucial network."Ten years ago, to talk about 1 billion Internet users sounded exaggerated, unthinkable, but now...

Microsoft's Rajat Taneja is concerned about a digital divide that's separating small and large companies in terms of access to and use of the most sophisticated financial and accounting software.Taneja, who leads Microsoft's MSFT small-business applications and services unit, says small firms are falling behind...