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Russian Online Population Explosion - FEBRUARY 7, 2008
Moving the Web beyond Moscow.
By the end of 2008, Russia will be the second largest Internet market in Europe.
eMarketer predicts that Russia will have more than 40 million Internet users by the end of the year. In Europe, only Germany will have a larger online population.

SURFnet - Motor voor innovatie
SURFnet maakt grensverleggend onderwijs en onderzoek mogelijk. SURFnet ontwikkelt en exploiteert het hybride netwerk SURFnet6 en biedt innovatieve diensten op het gebied van beveiliging, authenticatie en autorisatie, groepscommunicatie en video.
Meer dan 750.000 wetenschappers, docenten en studenten van het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek in Nederland hebben via SURFnet dagelijks toegang tot het internet. Om veilig grote hoeveelheden gegevens te versturen, maar ook om te communiceren met andere netwerkgebruikers waar ook ter wereld.
Door voortdurende innovatie beschikken de gebruikers altijd over één van de snelste en meest geavanceerde netwerken ter wereld. Bovendien wordt multimediale samenwerking tussen instellingen, onderzoekers en studenten mogelijk gemaakt met geavanceerde middleware en toepassingen. Hiermee legt SURFnet de ICT basis voor innovatie in het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek in Nederland.

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McDonald's to offer free Wi-Fi in restaurants
Rebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondent, The Guardian - Saturday October 6 2007
The fast food chain McDonald's is to introduce free high speed wireless internet access at most of its 1,200 restaurants by the end of the year in a move which will make it the UK's biggest provider of such a service.
Customers will be able to go online via their laptops, compatible mobile phones and games consoles for hours on end if they wish. The initiative goes a step further than existing services offered by some coffee shops and cafes, which provide Wi-Fi hotspots but charge users a fee.
McDonald's said its service would benefit a wide range of customers, from business people making a "pit stop" to check email between meetings to those looking for a leisurely break at the weekend to download music. It claimed a hotspot user who pays to log on for just an hour a week in a coffee shop could stand to save as much as £260 a year on premium Wi-Fi charges by using McDonald's free service. It has already introduced the free scheme in 8,000 of its 13,000 outlets in the US.