After several consecutive years of modest but consistent growth, broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010. Two-thirds of American adults (66%) currently use a high-speed internet connection at home, a figure that is not statistically different from what The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found at a similar point in 2009, when 63% [...]
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers) has finally approved the delegation of the first set of Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs). This means that soon we will see domain names in Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Indian languages. This measure has been taken in order to make Internet more attractive [...]
Thanks to a legal agreement between Microsoft and the European Union’s Competition Commission late last year, millions of European Internet Explorer users will be given the option to choose an alternative browser from 1 March, 2010. Microsoft Internet Explorer was previously always the default browser for computers kitted up with the Windows operating system. However, next [...]
Firefox 3.6 update has been announced by The Mozilla Foundation. I use it and recommend it. Get it now and improve your surfing experience.
This new Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time. Google Internet Stats collects, agregates and displays statistical data provided mainly [...]
comScore released on August 19,2009 a study on broadband growth in rural, micropolitan and metropolitan areas in the United States. The results of the analysis indicate that while broadband penetration is much higher in the metropolitan and micropolitan areas, broadband has experienced the most significant gains in rural areas during the past two years. “Across [...]
Microsoft Office is a very popular software package used worldwide for making presentations, spreadsheets and other documents, and its dominance is in no immediate danger. However Microsoft is trying to defend against a long-developing trend in which software is moving from the desktop to the Web. The new enabling factor is something called “Office Web [...]
Hey there, world cyber-globe-trotters – I just discovered that BING (the new search engine from Microsoft) has a free translator – no need to get upset when you run into strange languages while surfing. Try this useful tool, called the Microsoft Translator But of course there are a lot more of online free translation tools. [...]
This time they got it right… Opera 10, although still in beta, is a great browser. I have downloaded it (free) and installed it over my old 9.64 version. WOW, it is fast and friendly. This is their best browser, ever. Try it here Opera 10 beta.
In one hour and 22 minutes get a complete video tour of the history of the Internet and a picture of where the Commercial Internet of the future is going. Below you can see this very interesting video “Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century with Vint Cerf”. Afterwards click here to see the latest [...]