Volume 8 Number 7 (Jul. 2013)
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Internet as Indispensable Everywhere: The Introduction to the Advances in Internet Technologies and Applications Special Issue

Guest Editors: Chien-Chang Chen and Chih-Chien Wang
   Research on internet technologies has attracted increasing interest in the past decade, as indicated by a growing number of conceptual and empirical articles. Studies [1,2] on internet usage show the following trend during the past two decades. Growth of internet users over the world from 2000 to 2012 has an increase of 566% and Asia has the growth of 842%. Currently, over 2.5 billion people in the world use the internet. 41% of all men and 37% of all women in the world use the internet. 41% of the world’s households can connect to the internet.
    For people in the developed economies, Internet usage is already a part of daily life activities. Up to 78% of all households in the developed economies are connected to the internet. However, only 28% of all households in the developing world can connect to the internet. Recently, industry practitioners and policy makers have devoted themselves on introducing Internet in the developing and underdeveloped economies. Now, Internet is not a privilege only for people living in developed economies. More than 1 billion Internet users live in Asia.
   The popularity of Internet is booming in developing and undeveloped economies. In Africa, Internet penetration rate in households from 2009 to 2013 has 27% annual growth. The annual growth in Asia and the Pacific is 15% [1]. Fixed broadband prices are dropped by more than 82% over the past five years as industry report by InternetWorldStats.com. More countries, like Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, and Bulgaria raise most of their fixed broadband subscriptions to high-speed broadband.
    In the past five years, mobile devices move to our daily life and make an astonishing growth. The global mobile-cellular penetration rate approaches almost 100% all over the world. In 2013, there are 7.1 billion people in the world and number of mobile-cellular subscriptions is almost 6.8 million, in which more than half of them are in the Asia-Pacific region. Mobile broadband subscriptions have an average annual bandwidth growth rate of 40% from 2007 to 2013. The high popularity of mobile device makes possible of using Internet everywhere as people want.
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General Information

ISSN: 1796-203X
Abbreviated Title: J.Comput.
Frequency: Bimonthly
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Liansheng Tan
Executive Editor: Ms. Nina Lee
Abstracting/ Indexing: DBLP, EBSCO,  ProQuest, INSPEC, ULRICH's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat,etc
E-mail: jcp@iap.org
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