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IMS Research say sometime this month the 5 billionth device will plug into the Internet and are forcasting over 22 billion connected deivices by 2020.
Today over 1 billion computers worldwide are regularly connected to the Internet and this number is steadily growing.
The second wave of growth has and is being driven by the mobile phone industry, and the global number of Internet connected phones has now surpassed the number of connected computers. The number of phones is still growing at a much faster rate.
The study adds in emerging Internet connected device sectors such as tablets, netbooks, eBook readers, Internet TVs, digital picture frames, cameras, etc., and reaches 5 billion connected devices.
Pingdom had some interesting statistics in a report on the size of the Internet last year.
ComScore have just released a very interesting white paper “Women on the Web – How Women are Shaping the Internet”. The paper provides insights into the differnet ways men and women inteteract with the web.
Areas covered include
- The Gender Divide
- Women and the Social Web
- Women and Retail
- Content for Women
- Search Activity
- Entertaining Women
- Mobile Women
Once connected women embrace the Internet, however globally women are still sligtly in the minorty with 46% of the global Internet population being female. The white paper breaks down these differences further
“Singapore, the U.S., New Zealand, Russia and Canada have the highest proportion of adult female Web users – all with 50 percent or more. Countries with the lowest proportion of female Web users include two countries where Internet penetration is still extremely low – India and Indonesia, with 28 and 35 percent, respectively.”
The ComScore White Paper is a available here
Women on the Web How women are shaping the Internet
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Live (real time train) departure data from the Transport for London API is overlaid on Google maps to produce a map showing the current location of London Underground trains. Once the map has initialised you can see all the trains moving around the network in real time.
This (beta) real time tube map was coded in a few hours last weekend!
Last week the British national mapping agency the Ordnance Survey opened its doors providing for the first time in its 263 year history free online unrestricted public access to its maps and mapping data.
The Ordnance Survey (OS) has made avilable its 1:250,000 series maps on-line and is also providing it’s map data for download together with a set of Openspace API tools for embedding the maps into websites and apps.
The London Times has an interesting overview of the history and changes at the OS.
ICANN has started to create a series recordings for an ICANN Podcast. The Podcast called “ICANN Start” is designed to help people not familiar with diverse matters of Internet governance get quickly up to speed on specific issues. The podcast launched publicly last week, with four episodes.
03: What is the ccCNSO (Country Code Names Supporting Organization)?
02: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
01: Redirection and Wildcarding
Today, the fastest throughput on most of the global network is 10,000,000,000 bits (10 gigabits) per second – so sending the contents of a full DVD takes around 4 seconds.
The New Scientist is reporting Verizon has installed a 900 kilometre 100,000,000,000 bits (10 gigabits) fibre-optic link between Paris in France and Frankfurt in Germany.
YouTube are to start offering movie rentals on a trial basis.
For the initial trial Five full-length features drawn from 2010 and 2009 Sundance Film Festivals will be made available available. The rentals, which will cost $3.99 each, will be available until the end of the month and can be kept for up to 48 hours.
ZdNet has more
Admob.com the mobile advertising platform specialists have annouced today that they have agreeded to be acquired by Google for $750,000,000 in stock.
Press release
Google to Acquire Admob
The Broadband Forum using data from Point Topic has just released its latest broadband and IPTV report looking at the number of worldwide broadband connections and the associated uptake of IPTV subscriptions.
Connections . Country
93,549,000 … China
86,227,582 … USA
31,085,500 … Japan
24,086,250 … Germany
18,324,300 … France
17,838,200 … UK
15,876,992 … South Korea
12,855,463 … Italy
10,469,755 … Brazil
9,618,107 … Canada
Growth is not often not linear, with the number of connections slowing in the last Quarter in Latin America, Eastern Europe is currently the fastest growing region.
Connections … Q2/09 Inc.
109,650,503 … 1.64% … Western Europe
105,389,289 … 4.46% … South and East Asia
95,845,689 … 2.51% … North America
65,959,917 … 2.11% … Asia-Pacific
29,292,408 … 4.81% … Latin America
25,107,902 … 5.88% … Eastern Europe
13,054,260 … 1.83% … Middle East and Africa
The Greater London Authority has approved a plan in which waste heat from the $180 million Telehouse colocation facility will be used in a district heat network for the local Docklands community.
