[National Report, Section A.] Sun to Outline Computing Strategy Sun Microsystems plans this week to outline its vision of the future of computing, one based on the Internet rather than desktops or even on large corporate computing systems.
Called WeBank after Tencent's popular messaging app WeChat, the financial institution is the first one in China to be based on the Internet.
4. "It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet.
A promising rival is WiMax, based on the internet standard and supported by the computer industry.
There were free lessons and food, based on the Internet conviction that everything should be available without charge.
The new global economy based on the Internet and technology appears to be a service-centered economy in which ideas (abstract concepts or popular "content") matter.
It also is seeking new products and services to offer on its forthcoming.Net platform, which is akin to a new computer operating system based on the Internet.
Heavily based on the Internet, it allows donors to create their own fund-raising pages and uses many of the tricks of online marketing.
Having launched the huge personal-computer business, they are now starting another industry, based on the Internet, that promises--eventually--to be even larger.
John Watson, a consultant in Colorado who does an annual survey of education that is based on the Internet, said events in Wisconsin followed the pattern in other states where online schools have proliferated fast.
Negotiated after three years of lobbying battles involving music producers, publishes, broadcasters and consumer groups, the new directive would essentially extend existing copyrights in traditional media to those based on the Internet and computer technology.
