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Hungary and Romania's carelessness and indifference became known to the entire world when officials from the WWF proved that these two nations had put the illegal caviar trade above the fate of endangered sturgeons. The two countries are on the black list once again, as TRAFFIC, a wildlife monitoring organizat... |
16 November 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Google's move to open up Google+ last week was a great one for the social network. Along with the Google homepage ad, it contributed to quite a large bump in user numbers and visitors in the last week.The latest estimates put Google+ user numbers at almost 50 million. Now, Hitwise is saying that traffic jumped 1... |
27 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Facebook held a press event to unveil its new video call feature, in partnership with Skype. Mark Zuckerberg was on hand to make the announcement and also talk about what Facebook's been up to lately.
He took the occasion to provide the first official user count update since last summer, Facebook now has 750... |
7 July 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Not many users were probably aware that Reddit, the platform that gets more popular every month, has been supported in March 2011 by a single developer. Three more have recently been hired, just as the site got to 1.228 billion monthly pageviews.In March, when two of the three developers behind Reddit quit within a ... |
15 June 2011
17:33 GMT |
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The reports of Facebook's death are greatly exaggerated, at least that's what the company seems to be saying, referring to several reports showing that the social network has been losing users by the millions, in the US in particular. The company has challenged the accuracy of those reports, but has not pro... |
14 June 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Mobile internet usage is surging worldwide and, despite the big advances in wireless technology, the carriers are increasingly feeling the burden of all this traffic. After getting accustomed to making a tidy profit from voice calls and charging a significant amount of money for text messages which don't cost th... |
9 June 2011
09:38 GMT |
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Netflix has now become the single biggest source of traffic in North America, at least if you choose to display the data from a specific point of view. Netflix is the biggest downstream traffic source during peak hours, making up 29.7 of it in North America.This would seem like a win over peer-to-peer traffic, which ... |
18 May 2011
08:20 GMT |
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One of the most useful data in Google Maps is real-time or close to real-time traffic data. Access to it ensures that motorists know which routes to take, either to get to their vacation spots or to for their daily commutes.Now, road traffic data is available in Google Maps in Sweden and Taiwan, ensuring users in the... |
3 May 2011
10:35 GMT |
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LinkedIn has announced a major milestone, it now has 100 million registered users. The eight year old professional social network has been adding new users at a steady rate and says it is growing faster than ever now. The company is looking to go public later this year, though its financial aspects are not as great a... |
22 March 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Reddit has been riding a wave of popularity for the past year and especially in the last few months. Digg v4's complete failure is to blame, but it's more than that, Reddit must be doing something right since it's just announced that it has passed the 1 billion pageviews mark. Very uncommon for large w... |
3 February 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Reddit has had a great year, that much seemed obvious as the site popped up all over the place and more often in recent months. But the site is providing the stats to back this up, page views more than tripled in 2010, this while people spent more time on the site.Reddit got about 250 million page views in January 20... |
4 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Dailymotion, the European online video outfit, is seeing some impressive growth with traffic surging in the past six months, according to the company. The number of unique visitors grew by almost 50 percent since May and is getting close to 100 million monthly visitors.According to comScore numbers, released by the v... |
29 November 2010
13:52 GMT |
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Global spam volume has declined 22 percent in October, from the previous month, and 47 percent since August. Spam is at its lowest point since September 2009.Spam makes up for the vast majority of email traffic, but the volume isn't constant and can sometimes see wild variations in a short amount of time."In add... |
12 November 2010
14:18 GMT |
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A brand new, daring Montreal study suggests that there is a connection between pollution from traffic and an increased risk of breast cancer in women.The study has been carried out by researchers from The Research Institute of the MUHC (RI MUHC - Dr. Mark Goldberg), McGill University (Drs. Goldberg, Dan Crouse and Na... |
7 October 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Digg's big relaunch proved to be a big flop. The site has been trying to stay relevant in a world where people get their news from Twitter and even Facebook. Digg v4 introduced a number of features that were supposed to make it competitive but ended up alienating its core audience. According to analytics company... |
24 September 2010
10:49 GMT |
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A team of investigators in Spain is currently developing a technology that could keep a virtual eye on pollution levels being generated by traffic jams. Whenever large numbers of vehicles amass in a traffic jam, a large portion of all drivers do not turn off their engines. This leads to the accumulation of toxic fume... |
7 September 2010
11:01 GMT |
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There are several places where you can see which are the largest websites in the world. And there are plenty of ways of visualizing this, most analytics companies provide countless colorful graphs to choose from. But none of them are as fun as the one the people over at Nmap.org put together. Nmap focuses on security... |
25 August 2010
10:44 GMT |
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The World Cup is over and Twitter can breathe a sigh of relief managing to survive the onslaught of tweets that were bringing the site to its knees. While there were issues throughout the tournament with availability, Twitter also managed to break quite a few activity records. And now that it’s all over it can ... |
17 July 2010
07:19 GMT |
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You may have heard about Reddit’s financial troubles of late. The social news aggregator has been having trouble keeping up with traffic and sent out a plea to its users for help. The move worked, to a degree, but it hasn’t solved the cause of its problems. So Reddit is now trying to set the record straig... |
16 July 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Everybody loves a good controversy, but many times things get blown out of proportion, knowingly or not. Case in point is Facebook’s latest privacy fiasco that prompted a lot of people to vow to quit the site. The interest in the story has waned recently and, it seems, so did the critics’ vigor. And if yo... |
14 July 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Facebook has been growing for so long and by so much that it’s hard to imagine it ever slowing down. Yet that’s precisely what happened last month in the US where the site added just 320,000 new users from the May. What’s more, it may very well be that the site is losing a significant number of user... |
7 July 2010
10:29 GMT |
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Seeing Facebook adding tens of millions of new users every few months and even sites like Twitter getting close to two hundred million visitors, several times more than what it had just a year ago, it’s easy to get the impression that this is all rather common and not that complicated. But these two sites breat... |
6 July 2010
09:15 GMT |
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Twitter has been heralded as an international phenomenon for quite a while, but until recently, it was still very much an American company with a large US user base. However, that is changing and fast, as, according to a report put out by Semiocast, Asia is now the biggest user of Twitter, in terms of tweet volum... |
2 July 2010
05:48 GMT |
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In the recent months, Twitter has finally made it clearer how many users it has and where they come from, apps versus the site. And the revelation has been impressive, Twitter gets 190 million visitors each month and has more than 100 million registered users. But if there’s anything that Facebook has proven, i... |
23 June 2010
08:59 GMT |
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The Word Cup seems to be on everyone’s minds and on their computers as well. As the grand sporting event gets underway, reports are showing that Internet usage is reaching all-time highs, as people flock to get the latest action from news sites or to check it out for themselves on video sites. Akamai, the opera... |
12 June 2010
06:17 GMT |
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Living in crowded, heavily-circulated areas can have detrimental effects on people's sleep patterns, a new research revealed. The study shows that airplane noise, and the sounds generated by trains, traffic and sirens, can also impair the neurobehavioral performance that people usually have in the morning. The d... |
8 June 2010
05:41 GMT |
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It's not definitive and it's coming from just one website analytics company, but Facebook is now the biggest site in the US. According to the latest numbers from Hitwise, Facebook squeezed past Google to become the most visited site in the US in the past week. It's a very small gap between the two and ... |
16 March 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Here comes another Twitter usage study painting a grim picture for the microblogging service. While all indirect measurements have a certain degree of uncertainty, in lieu of actual data coming from Twitter, which is not likely to happen any time soon by the looks of things, these will have to do. The research, from ... |
27 January 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Twitter continues to make the headlines all over the world in the mainstream media, much more so than Facebook despite being several times smaller. But for the past few months, it looked like the media attention wasn't correlating to actual usage, and user growth has been stalling since summer, according to mos... |
13 January 2010
10:18 GMT |
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The outlook is looking moderately optimistic for Twitter on the revenue front, but things aren't going so great when it comes to traffic, at least for the main site. While in the US Twitter had flatlined for months now and even saw a dip in October, internationally it was still going strong. This isn't the... |
23 December 2009
04:56 GMT |
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It's too soon to call it, but Twitter's meteoric rise may be a thing of the past as the service has seen the same traffic numbers for the past few months. Facebook on the other hand is growing at a steady pace and is coming close to 100 million users in the US, according to the latest numbers from comScore.... |
14 October 2009
03:59 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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ProteMac Meter, the network activity-monitor and traffic-logger utility for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 3.1 – maintenance release. ProteMac Meter can offer information such as what was transmitted and where, for a more accurate view of your Internet experience. ProteMac Meter deals with all traffic i... |
16 September 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Google has added a new, potentially very useful, layer to Maps, allowing users to see the live traffic conditions in several cities across the US. Live traffic may not be something new for the highways but Google is introducing the feature for all arterial roads, making it much easier for commuters to plan their dail... |
26 August 2009
02:44 GMT |
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The Internet is always changing and the way that it's being used has shifted dramatically over the years. New data from Hitwise shows a big change in the popularity of several website categories, with entertainment-related sites now having 73 percent more visitors in the UK than business and other transactional ... |
14 August 2009
10:01 GMT |
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As expected, the Michael Jackson public memorial held yesterday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles was one of the biggest online events in history. But it wasn't the biggest and, if you really wanted to make a top, by some rough estimates, it was the third largest after US president's Barack Obama Inaugur... |
8 July 2009
03:36 GMT |
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comScore has released new data on the popularity of online entertainment news sites. The data shows that 55 million Americans visited at least one entertainment news site in May, a 7-percent growth year over year. Online video use for this type of sites was also on the rise, with a 53-percent increase in views since ... |
2 July 2009
03:28 GMT |
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By now, you probably know of the death of pop legend and superstar Michael Jackson at the age of 50, following a heart attack. Well, actually, you may not know that the news pretty much broke the Internet, taking down site after site and service after service. First to go down was AOL-owned TMZ, which actually brok... |
26 June 2009
03:44 GMT |
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For those who just can't get enough Twitter statistics, research firm Hitwise has released a new set of data with some interesting tidbits. While Twitter's growth in the recent months is hardly surprising to anyone, some details of the report offer a new perspective on how Twitter users behave and what the ... |
25 June 2009
09:04 GMT |
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According to news reports that appeared in the Chinese media on Saturday, a man, who got stuck in traffic on account of another man threatening to kill himself by jumping off a bridge, got out of his car, and pushed the would-be suicider off the rail. He later said that he was exasperated with the delay, and that thi... |
26 May 2009
04:49 GMT |
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ProteMac has announced a new update to its network activity monitor and traffic logger utility for Mac OS X, ProteMac Meter. Version 2.3 adds Local Connections preferences and fixes misc bugs.ProteMac Meter can offer information such as what was transmitted and where, for a more accurate view of the Internet experien... |
5 March 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Presidential inaugurations are not very easy to set up, and directing traffic is one major problem during that day. Now, with president-elect Barack Obama's ceremony just 4 days away, officials are working around the clock to incorporate a new traffic control and monitoring system into their mainframes. The new ... |
16 January 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Traffic-related decisions due to weather conditions or choosing a particular route will soon be made much easier by our own smart phone. A recent collaboration of Nokia, its independent NAVTEQ subsidiary (a Chicago-based provider of Geographic Information Systems data and a leading company in providing base ele... |
24 November 2008
06:07 GMT |
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The number of space objects that humans have created has grown a lot within the recent decades and will be exponentially increasing in the future. With all the planets and celestial phenomena that should be explored and observed, space missions (such as satellites and stations) are in bloom. Also, as overdue or unnee... |
10 November 2008
04:03 GMT |
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ProteMac has released ProteMac Meter 1.1, an update to its network traffic logger that allows users of OS X 10.4 (or later) to monitor all Internet and network traffic on their computers. Version 1.1 adds Full Traffic Chart, Complete Uninstall script, date and time localization and more.Users of ProteMac Meter can ge... |
13 October 2008
15:11 GMT |
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ProteMac has announced ProteMac Meter, a network traffic logger that allows users of OS X (10.4 Tiger) or later to monitor all internet and network traffic on their computers. The software displays information such as what was transmitted and where, for a more accurate view of the Internet experience.On a more detail... |
15 September 2008
09:52 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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An uncanny Google Analytics glitch drives users mad and at the time this article was written, no Google official came out to explain what happened. Here's the problem in a few words: webmasters who logged into their Google Analytics in the last few days spotted a shocking report: 0 (zero) direct visitors, which,... |
6 May 2008
11:14 GMT |
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You're driving calmly towards home in your newly bought fancy ride and all of sudden disaster! Rush hour captures you again in its merciless claws. But if you were to go all the way to the front of the column of cars, you might notice something rather surprising. There is nothing holding back the flow of cars, n... |
5 March 2008
08:51 GMT |
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The Big Two of the Finance stage, Yahoo Finance and MSN Money, have been forced to bow down with respect to the new competitor and, as a matter of fact, winner of the respective race: AOL Finance, who received a much needed improvement to its site, last November.comScore.com released the data for December, a short wh... |
11 January 2008
06:32 GMT |
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