employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet … technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in … client/server networks had a higher likelihood of Internet adoption, however investments in proprietary or platform …

Many networks such as the Internet have been found to possess scale-free and small-world network properties reflected …

Internet infrastructure. Although there is some anecdotal evidence on the 'end of geography' effect of the Internet, the … relationship between physical space and the Internet has not been yet scrutinized. In addition, owing to the network nature of the … Internet, the structure of the Internet infrastructure (the cyber-place) cannot be approached in a unidimensional way. Our …

Network neutrality regulations for the Internet have been discussed for about a decade. In Europe recent efforts have … produced a proposal by the European Commission that envisages the introduction of a two-tiered Internet traffic regulation … based on a regulatory market split between the markets for 'public' Internet traffic services and the markets for …

Der Datenverkehr über das Internet nimmt stark zu. Einerseits steigt die Internet-Nutzung der Individuen mit … Bedeutung, z.B. VoiP, Peer to-peer File Sharing, Online-Spiele, IP-TV und Video Streaming, etc. Die Internet-Protokolle (IP) und … die Internet-Infrastruktur werden zukünftig zur universellen Kommunikations-Plattform werden (NGN), da die Dienste und …

The significant increase of internet traffic is to a large extent caused by more high-data-rate applications like file … on-time-services like internet-television. This will result in systematic inefficiencies which can mainly be attributed … to two reasons. The first one is the widespread use of internet-flatrates and the second one is a much too strict …