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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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Until now, it has been well known that talking on your cellphone while driving could get dangerous. A new survey shows that talking on your mobile while in traffic may cause some delays as well. That's pretty logical as the one who's driving has to focus his attention not only on the traffic, but on the con... |
3 January 2008
09:59 GMT |
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You know how, sometimes, you are walking down the street, or driving in your personal car and all of a sudden all the traffic screeches to a halt, right? Sometimes drivers get stuck like this for hours at a time, without seeing the cause of the jam. But, if you go all the way to the place of the possible cause, you ... |
20 December 2007
05:55 GMT |
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KHCW-TV channel 39, the local CW network affiliate in Houston, has launched a free mobile traffic service. The ad-supported service, called KHCW Traffic Jam Cell Cams, enables commuters to view traffic tie-ups on their mobile devices before leaving their home or office, to help them plan the quickest and safest route... |
19 December 2007
09:12 GMT |
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I warned you on Friday that "Cyber Monday" is going to be "teh realz0rz dealz0rz" (I hope I got that right, I'm not really using this kind of talk) when it comes down to e-commerce and that it will most likely explode in the face of those who said it would be a failure based on the numbers and statistics from N... |
26 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Google is not only the best search engine on the web but it also represents a main source of traffic for most of the websites available out there in the wild. But sometimes, a simple flaw discovered in a website is enough to destroy the entire system and reduce the amount of traffic coming from Google. If you're... |
17 September 2007
03:51 GMT |
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Britney Spears' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards from Las Vegas is one of the hottest subjects in today's news. Obviously, the Internet consumers are also attracted by these articles so the websites' traffic was massively increased. As we expected, YouTube is one of the services which received... |
12 September 2007
10:56 GMT |
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David Beckham is a famous football player who recently joined LA Galaxy coming from the Spanish team Real Madrid. But what's more interesting for us is the impact of the transfer that boosted the traffic of the official MLS page, the US soccer league. According to market researcher comScore, the transfer of the ... |
11 September 2007
05:58 GMT |
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The Mountain View company and the New York authorities are working together to build a new technology that would bring several changes to the city's traffic, NY reportedly being the most crowded in the entire world. BigMouthMedia wrote that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is currently collaborating wit... |
24 August 2007
09:03 GMT |
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You got hacked? How come? What do you mean you have no security measures installed?!That might sound silly to some, but it's a fact in the United Kingdom - one of the world's most evolved countries has problems with cyber-security. To get down to the cold, hard numbers, 40% of the organizations in the UK ad... |
21 August 2007
10:13 GMT |
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Google's downloadable mapping tool is now even more powerful than before as the Mountain View company recently implemented a new and exciting feature. The real time traffic conditions are something new for the Google application but all the users were able to test it using the web-based platform Google Maps. If ... |
21 August 2007
04:22 GMT |
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Since YouTube was acquired by Google in October 2006 for $1.65, the video platform grew up a lot. But what if I tell you that YouTube has even more traffic than its father Google? Well, that's a shock! At least, this is what the famous web traffic measurement tool Alexa says. The folks from TechCrunch discovered... |
14 August 2007
03:53 GMT |
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As you probably know, Google Maps is a web-based mapping solution that provides valuable traffic information that can help you find the best route to reach your destination. But sometimes, the users are criticizing the Google solution because the route or the time needed to reach the destination were not what they we... |
9 August 2007
08:03 GMT |
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Traffic boxes located beside major freeways are already monitoring traffic at the busiest intersections on the road network, but could become even smarter, able to prevent collisions at traffic intersections that lack traffic signals.The "smart" traffic signs are a project of researchers from the Transportation Rese... |
26 July 2007
08:20 GMT |
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According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Statistical Records Office, there are approximately 62 million registered vehicles in the U.S. including trucks, heavy machinery and construction motorized vehicles which are more or less road-legal.This means that even the wide and straight roads in America will so... |
16 July 2007
08:52 GMT |
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The famous Wikipedia is continuously growing up, becoming the main source of information and news for numerous Internet users. According to a market research conducted by Nielsen//NetRatings, Wikipedia recorded no less than 46.8 million unique visitors in May 2007 that means almost a 72 percent increase since June 20... |
9 July 2007
06:52 GMT |
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Traffic boxes located beside major freeways are already monitoring traffic at the busiest intersections on the road network, but could become even smarter, able to locate road incidents and traffic back-ups, thus saving transportation authorities millions of dollars each year.A new project developed by engineers at ... |
4 July 2007
04:21 GMT |
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The famous web-based solution Google Maps is now even more efficient than before because the "Get directions" feature receives several updates able to improve the functionality of the product. Basically, you're now able to click and drag a special icon introduced by Google in order to adjust your route and find ... |
29 June 2007
14:16 GMT |
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YouTube is threatened by numerous online video sharing services but none of them managed to steal an important part of users targeted by Google's product. According to Hitwise, YouTube recorded 50 percent more traffic than all the video sharing services on the Internet. The research company said that YouTube... |
28 June 2007
10:17 GMT |
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The online video sharing service is currently involved in an impressive traffic increase and it will soon challenge BBC for the UK supremacy. In the recent period, YouTube got very close to the news service because the traffic of the online video service was dramatically improved especially in this country. According... |
21 June 2007
09:33 GMT |
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The online video sharing service YouTube is a real market hit in the UK because no less than 80 percent of the country's residents are interested in online clips according to a recent market study conducted by comScore. The study revealed that 80 percent of the Brits are accessing online clips compared to 76 per... |
20 June 2007
10:23 GMT |
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The famous web-based encyclopedia Wikipedia receives visitors from numerous sources but it seems that the main source of traffic is the search giant Google. According to some recent statistics, Wikipedia has approximately 7 billion visitors per month and more than 233 million each day. From this impressive number, mo... |
14 June 2007
08:35 GMT |
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The recently-released Google Universal Search is more than a simple technology as it manages to drive traffic to other Google products such as Maps and YouTube. According to a recent study conducted by Hitwise Google, the search engine that attracted 64.8% of all U.S. Internet searches is benefiting from the Universa... |
11 June 2007
07:06 GMT |
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YouTube and BBC is one of the most known partnerships made by the video service after the Viacom removal, reaching an impressive number of views. The agreement between the two companies created 3 new channels to display the content provided by BBC: 2 channels especially built for entertainment content, one ad based f... |
7 March 2007
06:52 GMT |
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