Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
According to the February 2008 stats from the comScore Video Metrix, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 10 billion online videos during the month, representing a 3% gain versus January and a 66% gain versus February 2007. Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 3.6 billion videos viewed (35.4% […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
A group at the University of California-Irvine decided to work on this rather intriguing question, approaching it from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers.
No doubt, blogging as a social phenomenon is significant, but studying it becomes a challenge because of the rather abstract nature of the blog itself, making […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
Citigroup Venture Capital International-owned You Telecom has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with Malaysia’s wireless technology and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider Red Snapper.
The JV, named YouSnapper, will focus on providing wide area wireless connectivity in India, a pilot of which has already started in Thane according to the Business Standard.
You Telecom’s fibre […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
Icelanders and the Scandinavians are Europe’s top Internet users, the GfK market research group found in a study.
In Iceland, an estimated 88% of the population aged 14 and above use the Internet regularly, followed by 81% in Finland, 76% in Norway, 76% in Denmark and 73% in Sweden.
In western Europe, Malta ranks lowest in terms […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
After “Do Not Call” registries, its the turn of a “do not track list” that would allow computer users to bar advertisers from collecting information about them. Given the recent debacle over Facebook’s Beacon, this should not come as a surprise.
The Consumer Federation of America and the Consumers Union also urged the FTC to bar […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
The much-awaited India launch of the Apple iPhone is expected with Vodafone in the first week of September says the Business Standard. Initially the 8 GB version is expected to be launched at a price ranging between Rs 27,200 and Rs 28,000.
For the uninitiated, the iPhone combines a touch screen interface with Wi-Fi, a powerful […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
Jaxtr, a Silicon Valley startup that lets users bypass a carrier’s international phone charges via the Web, claims that is now offering free mobile phone text messages between 38 countries.
Jaxtr members can use a simple Web form to send a text message to a mobile phone in any of the supported countries, which include the […]
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