Asian Internet use, China & .co

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

SAR tops in Asia for home Net use 
Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore top the list of Asia-Pacific
nations with access to the Internet at home but Australians 
and New Zealanders do much of their web surfing at work,
Nielsen/NetRatings said on Wednesday.
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZM86VIWNC.html

Cyber cafes duck Net clampdown 
The soft glow of computer screens lights the faces of hundreds of
students and twentysomethings crammed into the Feiyu 
Internet cafe near Peking University, 24 hours a day. The basement
cafe is one of roughly 1,000 in Beijing, where young 
Chinese can anonymously log on to the Internet and browse any site
they fancy, such as news or sports - or even banned 
pornography sites.
To Beijing, these cafes are a dangerous window into an electronic
world beyond the Communist Party's control, and in April 
the government launched the second major clampdown against the
popular venues in just over one year.
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZH56VIWNC.html

Major challenge looms for dotcom name 
A South American nation could pose the greatest challenge yet to the
supremacy of the .com domain name if a Colombian 
university successfully turns the country's Internet country code,
.co, into a global domain.
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZR6YEDPNC.html


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