Digital Divide
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...
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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 networ...
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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.Ta...
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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday settled a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of Iowans who bought the company's programs between 1994 and 2006. Terms of the deal were not immediately di...
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Greater investment in technology to improve health care and education would help ease global economic inequality, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday, adding he saw no limits to the t...
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Seoul (dpa) - Foreign ministers and other representatives from 30
Asian nations vowed Tuesday at a regional forum to help poor nations
in Asia to have better access to digit...
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KOUROU, French Guiana, Dec 21 (Reuters) - An Ariane-5 rocket
blasted off from French Guiana on Friday putting into orbit
telecommunications satellites for Africa and North America,
space officials...
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At an appearance this morning in midtown at the Personal Democracy Forum, he gave a lengthy policy speech without once referring to the fact that he's not technically governor yet.
Nor did that fa...
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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will build on existing efforts to bridge the digital divide worldwide and announced several new ventures, including a $3 software package for governments that subsi...
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City officials said Tuesday they had struck a deal with EarthLink Inc. to build a citywide wireless Internet network that would eventually be the nation's largest at about 600 square miles.Houston ...
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