Considerable efforts have been made in the recent years to produce detailed topologies of the Internet. While Internet topology data have brought to the attention of a wide and somehow diverse audience of scholars they have been so far overlooked by economic analyses. In this paper we suggest...

Considering that the modified and improved ICT service becomes a commodity in the domestic and foreign markets, it can be said with complete certainty that the improved service in the domestic market, i. e. as a commodity, meets the demand of domestic consumers. But the updated and improved ICT...

This chapter argues that the global information technology (IT) industry has become increasingly modularized through the digitization of information and that this modularization manifests itself in the reorganization and relocation of the IT industry. This chapter has three main points. First,...

This study examines the current status of North Korea's IT industry and the structural problems embedded in its IT sector. Although North Korea's IT industry, in general, is still in the infancy stage, North Korea has made considerable progress in the IT industry since the late 1990's. North...

During 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department evoked the first use of the 2001 Patriot Act to exclude virtual currency provider Liberty Reserve from the U.S. financial system. This article will discuss: the regulation of virtual currencies; cybercrimes and payment systems; darknets, Tor and the...

Diese Untersuchung beinhaltet eine Analyse des Kooperationspotentials der Unternehmen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie in Sachsen und Ungarn vor dem Hintergrund, dass sich sowohl Sachsen als auch Ungarn in der vergangenen dekade zu prosperitierenden Standorten der IuK-Wirtschaft...