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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.
How big is the Internet? Is a question which is often asked. There isn’t a single answer but there are lots of measures which give a feel for the scale of things out there. Pingdom, have an interesting blog post which draws together quite a few statistics that measure the size of the Internet in differnet ways, Things like
- How many emails are sent around the world?
- How many websites are there in the world?
- How many web servers are there?
- How many domain names are there?
- How many users are there? And where are those users?
The Pingdom summary of internet statistics from various sources provides some very interesting stats. While over at Physorg.com there is a more theoretical look at Internet growth.
YouTube has created two central hubs for every member of Congress and every member of the Senate. The new hub pages include a map of the United States which allows users to quickly access video from both senators and representatives.
The latest Nielsen Online report (.pdf) shows the most popular online retailers for the Q4, 2008 Christmas period (October to December) in the UK, and how they and the key online retail sectors fared compared to Christmas 2007.
The top 10 Online retailers as ranked by Nielsen Online together with their Year on Year (2007 to 2008) Growth percentages are
1 Amazon ……………… 18%
2 Argos…………………… 32%
3 Tesco…………………… 15%
4 Play.com……………… 35%
5 Marks & Spencer… 46%
6 Littlewoods ………… 66%
7 Currys ………………… 35%
8 ASDA …………………… 53%
9 John Lewis ………… 31%
10 Next …………………… 38%
Renesys the internet intelligence provider has an interesting blog post looking at top Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Renesys is good reference source because their reports are based on hard facts and objective analysis.
Here are the top 13 in terms of globally, geography and market segment.
1 … Sprint
2 … Level 3
3 … Verizon
4 … NTT
5 … Global Crossing
6 … Savvis
7 … AT&T
8 … Telia
9 … Tata
10… Qwest
11… Cogent
12… China Telecom
13… Tiscali
See the Renesys blog post of the report here.
GPM Group 