Corporate users and Consumers are both big users of knowledge, but the behaviours and priorities of knowledge-focused users, primarily in Education, Government and Research,are very different, irrespective of whether the products and services they are using are 'free' or paid-for. The boundaries between types of users are blurring in some places. For example in W. Europe and the USA, there is debate about the tendency for Governments to see all citizens as 'consumers' rather than 'users' of services. However, as many studies have shown, knowledge-focused users still behave very differently from business users and consumers, which has important consequences for those building and delivering services to these users.
Pearson, the international education and information company, has bought Wall Street English, China's leading provider of premium English language training to adults, for $145m in cash.
Michelle Wong, 16 April 2009
The recently-released Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast projects that global IP traffic will grow at a combined annual growth (CAGR) of 46% from 2007-2012, nearly doubling every two years. This will result in an annual bandwidth demand on the world's IP networks of approximately 522...
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Sarita Jones, 22 September 2008
As if Google hadn't spread its footprint wide enough over the web already, it now appears to be getting ready to challenge Wikipedia. Google's Knol, currently in test, threatens to promote ad-supported user-generated content to challenge Wikipedia's free model.
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Uday Phadke, 04 December 2007