News Items / Statistics
Consider These Numbers...
- 20% (1 in 5)
Men admitting to accessing pornography at work
- 260 million
Number of pornographic websites.
- 13% (1 in 8)
Women admitting to accessing pornography at work
- 2.5 billion (8% of total emails)
Daily pornographic emails
- 68 million (25% of total search engine requests)
Daily pornographic search engine requests
- $57 Billion
Size of pornography industry worldwide.
- $12 Billion
Size of pornography industry in the United States
- $17 Billion
Amount wasted by US corporations in 2005 due to spam.
Industry News
- Launching a Managed VoIP Service: A case study
Oct 19, 2005, VoIP Planet
Managed VoIP service is not a particularly rare commodity at this point in 2005. It was, however, decidedly rarer in 2002 when Sterling Internet Solutions first began looking into the possibility of offering a managed VoIP service to it clients.
Sterling Internet, a Portland Oregon-based full-service Internet service provider, was founded in 1997. Its Sterling Voice service is a managed VoIP offer targeted at SMBs in the Pacific Northwest.
The service was first rolled out in April 2004. Since September of 2004, Sterling has performed maintenance upgrades and performance tuning and has augmented and enhanced its network.
Sterling's president, Tom Gillihan, told VoIPplanet.com that the most significant part of the work—laying the foundations—was actually done in the 15 months prior to the rollout.
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- Using VoIP to Compete
Sep 15, 2005, Harvard Business
Internet telephony, or VoIP, is rapidly replacing the conventional kind. This year, for the first time, U.S. companies bought more new Internet-phone connections than standard lines. The major driver behind this change is cost. But VoIP isn't just a new technology for making old-fashioned calls cheaper, says consultant Kevin Werbach. It is fundamentally changing how companies use voice communications. What makes VoIP so powerful is that it turns voice into digital data packets that can be stored, copied, combined with other data, and distributed to virtually any device that connects to the Internet. And it makes it simple to provide all the functionality of a corporate phone--call features, directories, security--to anyone anywhere there's broadband access. That fosters new kinds of businesses such as virtual call centers, where widely dispersed agents work at all hours from their homes. The most successful early adopters, says Werbach, will focus more on achieving business objectives than on saving money. They will also consider how to push VoIP capabilities out to the extended organization, making use of everyone as a resource. Deployment may be incremental, but companies should be thinking about where VoIP could take them. Executives should ask what they could do if, on demand, they could bring all their employees, customers, suppliers, and partners together in a virtual room, with shared access to every modern communications and computing channel. They should take a fresh look at their business processes to find points at which richer and more customizable communications could eliminate bottlenecks and enhance quality. The important dividing line won't be between those who deploy VoIP and those who don't, or even between early adopters and laggards. It will be between those who see VoIP as just a new way to do the same old things and those who use it to rethink their entire businesses.
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- Workers' Web Use a Growing Concern for More Employers
Feb 25, 2005, Kiplinger Business Forecasts
Under federal law, "employers have to take all reasonable steps, not only to respond to inappropriate comments in the workplace, but to prevent them," Shaw explains. Moreover, some employers can enjoy "an affirmative defense" to sexual harassment claims, Shaw adds, if they have established policies barring inappropriate content in e-mails, train managers to enforce those policies and provide avenues for employees to lodge complaints without fear of retaliation.
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- Library Settles With Workers Who Sued Over Hostile Work Environment
May 27, 2005, WCCO News
Minneapolis library officials will consider restricting patrons' access to Internet porn and pay $435,000 to a dozen librarians to settle a lawsuit that alleged the prevalence of the images constituted a hostile work environment, the librarians' lawyer said Friday.
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- Hostile work environment: A manger's legal liability
May 27, 2005
The Internet has become a lightning rod for harassment issues in all types of organizations. For example, in late May 2001, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) determined that the Minneapolis Public Library may have permitted a hostile work environment by giving library patrons unfettered access to the Internet, which resulted in the display and printing of explicit sexual images on the library's public Internet terminals. The library had not installed filtering software due to free speech concerns, and had instructed the employees to simply avert their eyes when passing the terminals.
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- Supreme court rules 5-4 against the Child Protection Act.
Jul 05, 2004, World News
This week, the Supreme Court once again took action in support of Internet pornography by ruling against the Child Online Protection Act (COPA). In a 5-4 decision, the Court upheld the lower court ruling blocking the law and then sent the case back to the lower court for another trial. This will be the third time that COPA is tied up in the courts. The ACLU and others are doing everything in their power to stymie efforts to protect our children from internet pornography.
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- Porn 3x more popular than searches
Jun 04, 2004, SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)
Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines, including market leader Google Inc., a research firm said Thursday.
Web sites categorized as "adult" accounted for about 18.8 percent of all Internet visits by U.S. users in the week ending May 29.
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- ISPs deluged by peer-to-peer traffic, P-Cube reports.
Jun 03, 2004, By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, Inc.,
As much as two-thirds of the traffic that ISPs carry today is from peer-to-peer Web sites, and most of that traffic is caused by users downloading massive DVD files.
That's the assessment of ISP traffic patterns offered by Yuval Shahar, CEO of P-Cube. P-Cube is a venture-funded start-up that sells network devices to help ISPs throttle back peer-to-peer traffic.
"What we see today is that close to 70% of the traffic is peer-to-peer," Shahar says. "And that's not just residential traffic. We see peer-to-peer usage at work, too."
Shahar says peer-to-peer traffic is shifting from users swapping small MP-3 music files to users simultaneously downloading multiple movies. This trend is putting pressure on ISPs to segment their traffic to make sure peer-to-peer applications don't consume all of the available bandwidth.
"Napster was about swapping MP-3 files. Now it's mostly DVD movies, and the typical file is over 700M-byte. Users will set up 10 or 20 of those downloads in the background," Shahar says.
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- 'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says
Jun 18, 2004, By Robert Lemos and Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"--a large network of zombified home PCs--Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies said Wednesday.
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- Survey: One in four private companies sued by employees
Jul 05, 2004, Portland Business Journal
One in four privately held companies has been sued by an employee or former employee in the past few years, according to a survey sponsored by the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.
Executives at as many as half the firms surveyed say it is likely that an employee may sue them, their board members and their companies and/or lodge a discrimination complaint with federal or state authorities in 2004. And nearly one-third believe that an allegation or actual case of wrongful termination, discrimination or harassment has the potential to inflict financial or other serious damage to their company.
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- The legal ramifications of Internet Addiction.
Jul 05, 2004, NnetAddiction.com
The scientific validity and reliability of Internet addiction has played a role in three main legal arenas: Criminal Law, Employment Law, and Family Law. ...Under the ADA, mental disorders are a protected classification. Trends already show that employee Internet abuse is on the rise. When a manager fires an employee for such abuse, the employee can in turn, sue the company for wrongful termination based upon Internet addiction covered as a disability under the ADA.
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- E-Harassment in the Workplace
Jul 05, 2004, GigaLaw.com
Summary: The increasing use of e-mail and the World Wide Web in the workplace has led to an increasing number of sexual-harassment disputes. In some cases, an employer can be held legally responsible for its employees' activities, such as sending sexually explicit e-mails or downloading pornographic images. This article explains how sexual harassment relates to the Internet and what employers can do to limit their liability.
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