Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by dhirender
Akamai has released its inaugural quarterly “State of the Internet” starting this quarter (January to March 2008). Akamai proposes to publish a “State of the Internet” report every quarter henceforth extrapolated from data gathered across Akamai’s global server network according to this release.
This report will include data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages […]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by dhirender
A new report from Borrell Associates, What Local Media Web Sites Earn: 2008 Survey, shows local online ad spending rising at a 50% rate, to exceed $13 billion this year, compared to 2007 revenues of $8.7 billion (I think this refers to the US market). This is based on a survey of over 3,000 local […]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by dhirender
The world wide web now boasts of an estimated 15,000 sports betting websites, including some 13,000 illegal ones, shuffling around a staggering 15 billion euros (23.6 billion dollars) a year, according to this article - a number that is leading to concerns about global corruption, money laundering and gambling addiction. The amount of money traded […]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by dhirender
Inspite of Internet penetration at 4% in India, the e-learning market size is estimated at $27 million or Rs 105 crore, which is projected to grow to $280 million or Rs 1,092 crore by 2012, according to an education sector report by CLSA Asia Pacific Markets. Compare this to the size of the US e-learning […]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by dhirender
In its recently released “State of the Mobile Web” report, Opera analysed the aggregate, anonymous traffic of more than 44 million cumulative Opera Mini users worldwide and came up with some rather startling findings (mind you, these findings only pertain to Opera Mini users).
First some stats: Since its worldwide launch in 2006, more than 44 […]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by dhirender
Revenue for the online gaming market in the Asia/Pacific region is expected to grow rapidly between 2008 and 2013 from US$5.8 billion in 2007 to reach US$21.1 billion in 2013, a CAGR of 20.6% according to this In-Stat report. MMORPGs remain the mainstream of Asia’s online gaming market.
China is the fastest-growing market for online gaming […]
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by dhirender
India now has over 49-million internet users in the country according to this article in the Economic Times. No surprise that at 40 million, urban users account for a bulk of it, with rural net users making up the other 9 million. Regular net users, defined as anyone accessing the net at least once a […]
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by dhirender
According to a report entitled 21st Century Mobile Marketing - Insights into the World’s Most Advanced Mobile Society: Japan from Research and Markets the mobile marketing in Japan is currently valued at $620m, and slated to double by 2011.
Japan as a market is a pioneer in that a majority of the population uses mobile internet […]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by dhirender
Adding the 10.16 million wireless (GSM, CDMA, WLL) subscribers in March, India overtook USA to come in at second place after China. The total number of wireless subscribers now stands at 261.09 million.
A total of 10.40 million telephone connections (wireline and wireless) have been added during March 2008 as compared to 8.49 million connections added […]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by dhirender
No doubt at the cost of Internet Explorer, who’s market share seems to be treading a downward path, Firefox is gaining in usage, reaching 29% in Europe in March 2008, with Finland, Poland and Slovenia leading the pack at 45.9%, 44% and 43.7% respectively according to a XiTi Monitor report.
The report also notes that usage […]
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