Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second. [Via] Given that [...]
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The rather lackluster uptake for desktop internet is more than being made by the number of people accessing the internet via their mobile, with Google estimating that the number of people on mobile internet in India more than doubling, from about 8-10 million in the beginning of the year 2009.
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A very fascinating experiment The Internet Bus, by a school in Tucson, US, has succeeded in transforming what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, with behavioral problems virtually disappearing – simply by mounting a mobile Internet router to the bus, and making it wi-fi enabled. Now students spend their time [...]
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After a series of high bandwidth websites like YouTube and Google Wave, Google is now taking the next step by unveiling plans for an uber-high speed Internet access in a small number of trial locations across the United States – fiber-optic networks for as many as 500,000 people with connections of 1 gigabit per second [...]
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With an additional Rs 2,022 crore invested in Uninor, Telenore has increased its share in the India joint venture with Unitech Wireless to 67.25%.
In a statement, the company said it had acquired a 7.15 per cent stake in Unitech Wireless by way of issuance of fresh shares and a final investment of Rs 2,022 crore. [...]
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Tempted by the fast growing Indian internet audience, Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia, is considering a proposal to launch Wikipedia.in, a local India chapter, similar to its country-specific portals in China, Germany, US and UK.
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