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A growing number of US Internet securities brokers are settling in Europe to meet the stock market boom there. European privatization efforts have fueled individual demand for online services to handle shopping for financial products, locating specific financial data and buying and selling shares. American brokers, attracted to Europe's potential amid lower profit margins at home, have quietly started their expansion efforts. Operations are starting in Britain, while brokers are increasingly considering the Continent. Charles Schwab introduced an online service in Britain in Apr 1998. Palo Alto, CA-based E-Trade Group unveiled a joint venture with a British partner and announced German licensing deals. The number of British Internet users is expected to reach more than 12 million, or approximately 20% of the population, according to market analysts IDC Research. By comparison, only 5.5 million Britons were using the Internet at the end of 1997.
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The ability to hold real time discussions online is one of the benefits of the Internet. Electronic correspondence is useful in that it is a quick way to communicate, while providing those using it time to think their questions or responses through before they are sent out. This type of correspondance can be used by individuals around the globe to collaborate on a single complex project. The Internet provides almost immediate access to updated information and provides a medium that can present things visually. The information on the Internet is organized according to its relationship to other information. This style of pattern recognition is closer to how the brain remembers information, compared to organizing things alphabetically or numerically.
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The University of Wisconsin Madison, Keio University, Tokyo, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Osaka, Japan, have been conducting joint computer science courses over the Internet 2. The Internet 2 allows data speed of 40 megabits per second, so video and audio images appear smoothly. The system uses the IPv6 protocol, which is set to replace the 20 year old IPv4 telecommunications standard soon. Presently, only large institutions have access to the Internet 2.
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