Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Interesting slideshare presentation from cisco that covers what it belives the ten technology trends of the next ten years will be.

A recent study by google which looked into the effect of the internet on conversations involving a mention of a brand, showed how important online channels, particularly search, are to inspiring and informing these conversations. Please watch our short video to find out more.  The full study is also available for download

Internet advertising revenues hit $7.3 billion in the first quarter, setting a new record, the Interactive Advertising Bureau reports.The figure is a 23% jump over Q1 2010, which had been a first-quarter record as well. In April, the IAB reported that online revenues for 2010 were $26 billion, a 15% jump over 2009, which had seen [...]

UK internet users have embraced the web and its possibilities like never before, although some demographic groups remain offline. eMarketer estimates more than 44 million people are online in the UK in 2010 and nearly 70% of all households have broadband access. “The cultural divide between web users and non-users is widening,” said Karin von Abrams, [...]

Interesting artcile from the Economist about how the mobile internet will transform the BRICI countries. It talks about a user Ranvir Singh who suggests that buying a mobile phone was the wisest $20 he’d ever spent. Mr Singh, a farmer in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, used to make appointments in person, in advance, [...]

Great visual about the history of the internet that shows the progressive changes that  have happened to the technology that now shapes the majority of our lives and how we spend most of our time.

Individual stats like Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day are impressive on their own, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively? Jesse Thomas did just that in his video State of the Internet. The video — [...]

Here’s a short video that show’s that you may not be so special, as there as so many  other things going on in the world that you didn’t know

Launched just last week, Google’s Internet Bus aims to educate Indian people about what the Internet is and how it can benefit them in multiple ways.

The moment when the Internet passed 1 million users is veiled in history.  The truth is, whenever it happened, no one was counting—or even had the means to do so. But according to the “Internet Growth Survey” from MIT, there were 1 million hosts (defined as either a computer or IP address) in 1995.  Read [...]