In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: “cutting out the middleman”. Instead of going through traditional distribution channels, which had some type of intermediate (such as a distributor, wholesaler, broker, or agent), companies may now deal with every customer directly, for example via the Internet. One important factor is a [...]
According to Verisign statistics, on June 30, 2008 there were approximately 168 million domain names registered. This represents an increase of 22% over the number of domains registrations one year ago. The Country Code Top Level Domain Names totaled 65 million, an increase of 27% over last year. This leads us to think that non-English [...]
Ecuador’s Constituent Assembly and the telecom regulator Conatel have approved a merger of the two incumbents Andinatel and Pacifictel, which had been separated in 1997 with a view to privatization. The current government no longer aims to privatize the companies, and substantial synergies can be gained by unifying the two operations. Although it may take [...]
When you surf the web sometimes you find the need to translate a web page or a text block. It is a two way proposition, because not everybody in the world speaks the same language: Mandarin into English; English into Russian; Japanese into Spanish, and so forth. According to Internet World Stats, the true Digital [...]