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One of the main reasons for Twitter's success has been the openness towards third-party developers. While the core service has stayed mostly true to its minimalistic approach, users can get most of the features they need from all of the services and apps that cater to Twitter. In fact, these apps are so popular,... |
18 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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It looks like social media use is not only going up for individual users, social tools are also becoming a lot more popular in enterprises, this despite social networks being blocked in a large number of them. A new report from Palo Alto Networks, maker of enterprise firewall solutions, found that Twitter use grew t... |
11 November 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Facebook is huge, the biggest social network and one of the largest websites on the planet. It's also growing at a hefty pace with no slowdown in sight. It has 300 million users worldwide and is one of the top five sites in terms of traffic in many countries. Yet, despite all this, some stats still manage to sur... |
24 October 2009
07:11 GMT |
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The nature of the Internet is always changing but a new extensive study from Arbor Networks shows that the web is becoming increasingly centered on a few massive sites that take up a disproportionate amount of traffic. Google sits at the very top, accounting for around six percent of all web traffic, and the top 30 w... |
14 October 2009
11:45 GMT |
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It's been a rough year for advertising so far and online advertising hasn't been spared. Though not hit as hard as other segments, online ad spending dropped 5.4 percent year over year in the US in the second quarter of this year. Overall the market shrank 5.3 percent for the first half of the year, droppin... |
6 October 2009
03:42 GMT |
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It’s not uncommon for stars to pay exorbitant amounts of money on things that they only get to enjoy or use just once. Obviously, clothes are also included on that list of items. Three-year-old Suri Cruise, daughter of famous Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes, for one, is living celebrity ... |
2 October 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Despite reports that have been surfacing in the media for the past several years, Michael Jackson was in good health when he died of an overdose on Propofol in June this year. He was thin, but not too much so for his height, he had a strong heart and did not have any alcohol or illegal drugs in his stomach, autopsy r... |
2 October 2009
06:14 GMT |
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While the demographic difference between MySpace and Facebook is 'apparent' to anyone who has used the two social networks even briefly, now we have the actual data to back up any empirical observations. According to Nielsen, Facebook is much more likely to be used by more affluent people while MySpace appe... |
28 September 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Twitter has seen some spectacular growth earlier this year and, thanks to the number of celebrities that started using it, a lot of attention from the mainstream audience. But, while the users skyrocketed, there was an increasing number of nay-sayers doubting that the microblogging service could sustain the growth or... |
26 September 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Social networking has been around for some years now with users and time spent growing steadily. However, new numbers from Nielsen show that social networking has grown in a big way in the past year, with users spending almost three times more on social networks. Largely due to the huge increase in user numbers Faceb... |
25 September 2009
11:56 GMT |
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The tumbling economy hadn't initially stopped people and businesses from snatching up an increasing number of domain names. But it looks like the downturn has finally caught up with this market as well, as, despite the fact that domain registrations are at an all-time high, the growth rate may be slowing down es... |
23 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Facebook keeps on growing, with no signs of stopping or slowing down, and, at this point, there really isn't any indication of how big it could get, as it's already much, much bigger than anything before it. And, despite attention-grabbing headlines proclaiming that users are beginning to leave the social n... |
9 September 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Facebook has been seeing big growth in user numbers and visitors month after month but how does it stack up to the established Internet giants? comScore has released its latest Top 50 US Web Properties and the numbers show that the big three – four if you include AOL – are staying put, with Google leading... |
27 August 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Broadband speeds in the US lag way behind countries like South Korea or Japan, a new study by the Communications Workers of America shows. The study showed that the average speed for Internet connections in the US is at 5.1 Mbps just 1.6 Mbps higher than two years ago. At this growth rate it would take the US 15 year... |
26 August 2009
04:25 GMT |
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A study by the American Telemedicine Association published in the Telemedicine and e-Health journal revealed the impact Twitter had and continues to have on day-to-day human tasks and interaction. According to the study, doctors and patients have been benefiting from the technological advances when it comes to keepin... |
25 August 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Money is a very important issue in our society. It was so thousands of years ago, and will continue to be thousands of years from now. It gives life, takes lives and destroys them. So, it is one of the most important aspects of our life, and must be treated cautiously. Since computers became available to everyone, mo... |
21 August 2009
11:31 GMT |
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SQL injections are ranked as the top vulnerability that hackers tend to go after, in a report by the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC). Hackers went, in the first half of 2009, after social and media websites, due to their large user pools and public exposure. A large number of incidents was recorded for th... |
20 August 2009
07:43 GMT |
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This may be a tough sell to all but very few teachers but it looks like online education may actually be better than traditional classroom education. A recent comprehensive study by SRI International for the US Department of Education showed that, on average, those who used online resources as their sole source mater... |
20 August 2009
07:13 GMT |
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The percent of companies that monitor outbound emails has risen with more than 50% from its 2008 value, study says. ProofPoint, a data-loss prevention company, has issued its annual study based on 220 company surveys from various fields of activity. The study shows that, in a shaky economical environment, data leak ... |
15 August 2009
05:52 GMT |
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According to the monthly reports issued by Symantec Corporation, State of Spam and State of Phishing, spam email has dropped 8% since last month, while phishing attacks have increased by a staggering 52% during July. The majority of spam topics continued to deal with Barack Obama’s political issues and the deat... |
10 August 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Mastering search ads, much like SEO, sometimes takes some very occult and strange knowledge and undertakings, with the results, while measurable, largely unexplainable. Research firm ClearSaleing Inc., an advertising analytics provider, aims to shed light on some aspects of search advertising with some interesting da... |
7 August 2009
10:28 GMT |
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While Twitter users may number in the tens of millions, only a small percentage of those create most of the content, with 5 percent accounting for 75 percent of the activity. This was found by several studies and was confirmed by social media analytics company Sysomos last month as well. But now the company set out t... |
6 August 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Online video watching has been rising for several years and shows no sign of stopping, with a growth rate outpacing most other web services. A new study from Pew Internet shows that online video has surpassed even social networking, only to become one of the most popular activities online, with 62 percent of American... |
30 July 2009
05:06 GMT |
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We've long suspected that technology and the Internet are changing the workplace environment, in most cases for the better. But, lacking hard cold facts and real numbers to back the claim, this could only be classified as speculation, that is, until staffing firm Kelly Services released a new report as part of i... |
24 July 2009
10:58 GMT |
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While traffic and user numbers may be growing for Microsoft's new decision engine, it looks like the advertisers are a little more reluctant. In fact, online advertising research firm AdGooroo found that first page advertisers may have dropped in the first month after Bing's launch even though overall Micro... |
14 July 2009
09:15 GMT |
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With online advertising hit hard by the weak economy it would seem natural that the market would change and players would shift their importance. This was the finding of a Borrell Associates study looking at online marketing spending on social networks. The study showed that local advertisers played a much bigger rol... |
14 July 2009
06:27 GMT |
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eBay isn't going through its best period yet and has seen a steady decline for several years now. The auction site, once one of the biggest on the web, saw a 33 percent decline in page views in the last year with the number of unique visitors also dropping but at a smaller rate. Meanwhile, newly revamped, GM mig... |
11 July 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Online video is big business, maybe not in terms of revenue but it's one of the principal drivers of online traffic. In fact, more and more videos are being created and uploaded everyday much more than anyone could ever hope to see in their lifetime. So, how is one supposed to swift through the countless cat vid... |
11 July 2009
05:22 GMT |
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ComScore has released its latest report on the Internet audience and market for the month of May in the US. While, overall, the market changed very little, there was a big seasonal increase for some categories like gift sites coinciding with Mother's Day, graduations and other events. Coupon sites also saw a bi... |
24 June 2009
04:49 GMT |
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New data from comScore shows little activity in the search sector, with the big three competitors maintaining more or less the same positions, namely Google in the front, followed by Yahoo and Microsoft. However, other players saw big increases in queries from April to May, and online classified ad website Craigslist... |
19 June 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Whether it's the result of the recent Time Warner-AOL split or just the natural trend, new data released by the latter company shows some very positive results for both its homepage as well as some of its many online ventures. According to data from comScore, AOL.com has risen to 40.6 unique visitors in May 2009... |
19 June 2009
06:00 GMT |
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We already know that 10 percent of Twitter users account for 90 percent of the tweets, and a report from research firm Purewire confirms it and gives a clearer view with even more numbers. According to the paper, based on Purewire's analysis of seven million Twitter accounts, 80 percent of them have fewer than 1... |
9 June 2009
03:12 GMT |
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On April 2 2009, Corel revealed a summary of the financial results for the first quarter of this year, which ended on February 28, indicating that revenue dropped to $56.2 million. The preliminary report shows that, at the beginning of 2009, revenue decreased no less than 14% compared with the same period of the past... |
4 April 2009
03:41 GMT |
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A newly published study from GetJar shows that the impressive growth in the use of mobile applications has led to great changes in the consumer choices, as well as in their behavior. The company made a survey on over 2000 European users and social networking applications tend to be used more and more instead of voice... |
31 March 2009
10:04 GMT |
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It was founded in 1994 by the son of famous designer Vivienne Westwood and, for a long time, it was associated only with extravagance and a certain sense of deviant boudoir behavior. Since then, though, Agent Provocateur has established itself as a luxury company, receiving endorsements from the most famous women in ... |
24 March 2009
14:41 GMT |
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In 2003, the UK relaxed the law on cannabis, so as to downgrade it from a Class B to a Class C drug. The result of this initiative is seen just now, as more than half of the children under 16 have tried the drug, a new UN report indicates, thus pointing to Britain as the country with the highest level of teenage cann... |
19 February 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Researchers from the security company BitDefender came across a new e-mail scam aimed at spreading malware and claiming to deliver invoices and e-tickets acquired through an online airplane ticket purchase system. As expected, contained in the attached .zip file are several trojan installers.The e-mails have subjects... |
22 September 2008
11:34 GMT |
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released, on September 16, a report that outlines the problems found and recommendations made following an investigation into how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) handles its cybersecurity responsibilities. One particular subject concerned the security notifications... |
19 September 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Akamai Technologies has released a report regarding “the state of the Internet” for the second quarter of 2008, and it lists Japan as being the primary source of attack traffic, followed by US and China. According to the report, in the second quarter of 2008, Japan accounted for 30% of the total global at... |
10 September 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Following recently released security reports from several anti-spam/crimeware companies and projects that have outed Atrivo as a hub for cybercrime in the US, two of the company's Internet Service Providers are taking radical measures. Global Crossing and WVFiber are severing ties with Atrivo by removing peering... |
8 September 2008
06:11 GMT |
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For a while now, the mainstream media has been reporting on the upcoming ability of Google's Picasa photo organizer to recognize faces, thanks to a revolutionary technology. While everyone is focused on the new feature and the possibilities it presents, security experts recommend users stay away from any unsolic... |
3 September 2008
09:54 GMT |
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The Identity Theft Resource Center has published the list of security breaches reported in the US in 2008. The number is astonishing - 449, which is three incidents more than the total registered in 2007. "The actual number of breaches is most likely higher, due to under-reporting and the fact that some of the breach... |
26 August 2008
09:10 GMT |
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We are in the middle of summer and as we speak almost everybody is thinking of taking a vacation at the seaside or in the mountains. But even if we manage to put things in order when it comes to taking time off work and planning everything for the perfect vacation, there's still something that we cannot control... |
31 July 2008
11:54 GMT |
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As we, here at Softpedia, told you back in April, Srizbi is the world's largest botnet ever. Following its evolution, which is also known as Cbeplay and Exchanger, Marshal, one of the global leaders in Email and Internet Content Security, just announced that Srizbi accounts for half of the world's spam. A p... |
12 May 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Security researchers at Core Security Technologies have issued a warning statement on Monday according to which they found a rare vulnerability in Wonderware subsidiary's InTouch SuiteLink application. Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, is a software manufacturer that offers solutions to business users in ... |
8 May 2008
09:07 GMT |
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Ubisoft has every reason to be happy with how the company is doing, since it has recorded a 36% boost in income for the year 2008. The huge profits recorded by the company should mostly be attributed to their hit title Assassin's Creed which sold, according to them, over 6 million copies since its launch in Nove... |
25 April 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Every year, the annual report on China's military power that the Pentagon presents before the U.S. Congress is met with criticism by the Asian country, and every year the US say that they are worried by the advancement level the rival power has achieved. That's the backbone of what has been going on, the me... |
10 March 2008
12:46 GMT |
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Being the busy little bees that we are and with the minuscule attention span we've grown to have (or rather regressed to having), we're always running for the latest information, be it interesting or not, important or not. Our hunger for Google numbers has always been fed by the quarterly fiscal reports and... |
19 February 2008
07:06 GMT |
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There's some good news and some bad news, according to the annual X-Force report released by Internet Security Systems, a part of IBM Corp. The good news is that there have been lesser recorded security flaws in 2007, only 6,437, compared to the previous year, a decrease of 5.4 percent. The bad news is that web ... |
12 February 2008
13:36 GMT |
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The European online gaming companies are filing a formal complaint against the United States for discrimination after their controversial exit from their market. The firms claim that the US Department of Justice has violated the international trade law when they took legal actions against them leading to an eventual ... |
20 December 2007
08:27 GMT |
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