Indeed, given the prevalence of internet –derived information and social networking associated with "web 2.0", [ 41] this is an area likely to increase in importance in the future.
It provided access to microfilm and digital newspapers and to radio, television, and Internet-derived news, as well as the opportunity to request the transfer of print copies of specific newspapers, periodicals, and journals from the Boston Spa facility.
"GE management believes that through Internet-derived productivity they can save from 20% to 50% of selling, general and administrative expenses," says Merrill Lynch analyst Jeanne Terrile.
I spoke to a few of the guys (well, one guy) the other day, and he laid it out for me: whereas Macrovision had become synonymous with preventing people from copying media (I had to use an old, pre-Macrovision VCR to rip a scene from a Simpsons DVD in high school), Rovi is more focused on organizing your thousand-channel TV listings, or making sense of Internet-derived audio/video content.
Tencent, another mammoth internet company, derives the much of its revenue from virtual items that provide emotional release or self-expression - for example, video games and an immense array of emoticons.
This is not an exciting new feature of Virgin's digital package, but rather a surprisingly convincing internet legend derived from the 80s hospital soap opera St Elsewhere.
His remedies for Emma and Tariq's poverty-rooted depression include an outrageous form of sex therapy and providing Tariq with an Internet breakthrough derived from Murray's mysterious connection to the pigeons and their warfare.
LulzSec, which draws its name from a combination of "lulz" — an Internet coinage derived from "lol" for "laughing out loud" — and "security," is a diffuse online community of so-called hacktivists.
This court concludes that Microsoft's decision to offer only the bundled -- "integrated" -- version of Windows and Internet Explorer derived not from technical necessity or business efficiencies; rather, it was the result of a deliberate and purposeful choice to quell incipient competition before it reached truly minatory proportions.
The Internet, by contrast, derives its adaptability precisely from its amorphous nature.
