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Cyberscope.(Internet usage)(Brief Article)

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With British elections coming next week, Web surfers have plenty of opportunity to sample the spectacle. They can get hard news from www.voxpolitics.com, or stage Space Invaders-style battles between the forces of Labour's Tony Blair and Conservative candidate William Hague www.friendlygiants.com. The parties are tripping over themselves to attract a Web audience: Labour recently mailed its Web-site address to first-time voters, and both parties have multiplatform news portals.

Internet-mania won't end when the British election is over. Many European governments are spending millions of euros to put all their transactions on the Web. The United Kingdom hired Microsoft to build an uber-portal that will connect hundreds of government institutions, local and national, to one another by 2005. E-voting trials are underway in Switzerland, Belgium and Germany. Italian and Dutch ...

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