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107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.

294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.

1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.

480 million – New email users since the year before.

89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.

262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).

2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.

25% – Share of email accounts that…

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Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Internet. The worst case scenario would be that, in allowing the FCC to regulate the Internet, we open the door for big business, Hollywood and the indecency police to exert even more influence on the Net than they do now.

On Monday, Google and Verizon proposed a new legislative framework for…

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WASHINGTON, August 9, 2010- Google and Verizon have announced a joint statement of principles on network neutrality and hosted a conference call Monday to outline their effort to the press. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg announced that this new policy calls for an open and transparent wireline internet with special conditions given to the “burgeoning wireless market.”



This announcement comes after a week of speculation that Google would receive priority… Continue

In most debates over its future, the university is represented—by both its critics and its champions—as a secular temple for learning, a sacred space freed from the more mundane concerns that trouble other institutions. But lately this lofty image looks increasingly tarnished, especially with regard to public research universities. There, a new class of administrative professionals has been busy working to make colleges as much like businesses as possible. In…

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