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Television did not kill radio, neither did the Walkman, nor will the Internet.

During the past 10 years technology has dramatically broadened radio (and other audio) programming. It began in the mid-1990s with “streaming” audio over the Internet. By the end of the decade XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio were launched. Since then, digital radio has continued to expand with the addition of podcasting, offering time-shifted radio programming, and HD Digital Radio, offering superior sound quality and additional AM and FM frequencies.

Ricky Martin stars in videos for the Navega Protegido campaign, a regional effort to promote online safety for children, sponsored by Microsoft Latin America and the Ricky Martin Foundation.

The World Wide Web may finally be living up to its name.

According to the sixth annual “E-readiness Rankings” of the world’s largest economies, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), using a model developed together with the IBM Institute for Business Value, with over 1 billion Internet users and 2 billion mobile-phone users worldwide, the world is more e-ready than ever.

The internet has become increasingly important to users in their everyday lives. It is also the case that for many of online Americans, the internet has become a crucial source of information at major moments and milestones in their lives.