Comedians have found a lot of material in the offices of corporate Americans. Even the workers themselves understand how dreary it can be to spend their days at work in a cubicle. According to one study in 2005, American corporate employees waste more than twenty five percent of their eight hour workday, and their lunch break is not included in this figure. While underachievers may take comfort in this statistic, the rest of us are wondering where all that time goes.

The study was a joint effort by AOL and Salary.com, based in their findings after polling more than ten thousand employees in America. The participators confessed that they wasted their time and their employer's money using the Internet for personal reasons, socializing, conducting personal business, daydreaming, and doing personal errands.

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Top 5 Questions to Ask your Internet Service Provider

Switching Internet services providers can be a difficult decision for many people. We are bombarded with advertisements for numerous plans from a variety of companies, each claiming to be the best for one reason or another. You are probably paying a lot for your Internet access, and you want to make sure you get the best possible deal out of it.

It seems like many of the companies involved don't have great service or like to hide details in the fine points of contracts that allow them to provide a lower quality Internet connection than you expected. Here are some questions you can ask a potential service provider to make sure you really understand what you would get with their service.

Internet and Broadcasting – A Marriage Made in Heaven

It was only a matter of time before the TV Age coupled successfully with the Computer Age, the result being webcasting or web conferencing. And although these newlyweds haven’t had a history of problem-free wedded bliss, this marriage appears to have what it takes to last the duration.

AT&T first tried to get these two together back in the turbulent ‘60s; the corporate body effort encountered too many glitches as well as a disinterested public; however, starting in 1998, the web conference with simultaneous webcasting came into its own - its economical, reliable, readily-available own.