Posts from — January 2008

Firefox usage is leaping ahead in Europe. In the beginning of 2007, Firefox had a 7.3 percent market share in Europe. In one year’s time, this has increased to 28 percent! The top 3 market for Firefox in Europe in terms of market share are:

1. Finland – 45.4%
2. Slovenia – 44.6%
3. Poland – 42.4%

“It is not about how much you have connected, but what you do with it” – This is the underlying fact of the study conducted to look into how the broadband and other network connectivity technologies are used for enhancing social and economic growth. The industrial economies were studied under the innovation-driven economies and the top 5 countries in this category are

1. United States
2. Sweden
3. Japan
4. Canada
5. Finland

Among the developing economies that were studied under the emerging and resource driven economies, the top 5 were
1. Russia
2. Malaysia
3. Mexico
4. Brazil
5. South Africa

Blogging as an internet activity is growing phenomenally in Russia. In the past year alone, the number of Russian blogs multiplied over 2.6 times. There are now over 3.1 million Russian blogs; approximately 3 percent of the total number of blogs. The average age of a Russian blogger is 22 years and there are 7000 blogs that appear every day!

From Q4 of 2006 to Q4 of 2007, Search Engine Marketers put an additional 29 percent into the search engine advertising market, and out of this 97 percent fell into Google.

Google’s market share in SEM increased by over 9 percent Quarter-on-Quarter  to 77 percent. On the other hand, Yahoo’s market share reduced from 24 percent to 18 percent in the same period.

In the last quarter of 2007, nearly 54 million Europeans visited a career related website. The top 5 websites to have been visited are

1. Monster
2. StepStone
3. ANPE
4. Bundesagentur für Arbeit
5. JOBCENTREPLUS.GOV.UK

Apple has an agreement with AT&T to sell iPhones enabled with only the latter’s network. However unlocking the iPhone is not that uncommon, if not easy.

Number of iPhones sold till date : 3.75 million
iPhones believed to be unlocked : 1 million

Number of iPhones expected to be sold by end of 2008 : 10 million
iPhones expected to be unlocked : 2.5 million

This is not about Olympics. Here is a list of eight most hyped video games for 2008:

Grand Theft Auto IV
KillZone 2
LittleBigPlanet
Metal Gear Solid 4 – Guns of the Patriots
Spore
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Too Human
Wii Fit

Mobile entertainment was worth around $20 billion in 2007. This is predicted to reach $64.8 billion by 2012. The individual mobile entertainment growth areas and their worth in 2011 are

Games : $7 billion
Music : $13 billion
Images : $4 billion
Videos : $6 billion
TV : $1 billion
Adult : $2 billion
Gambling : $2 billion

The online audience for the US Newspapers grew by over 6 percent in 2007.

Traffic for US Newspaper websites in 2006 : 56.4 million
Traffic for US Newspaper websites in 2007 : 60 million

Entertainment seems to be the craze with the majority of Facebook users. The most popular Facebook apps are

1. Top Friends (Slide)
2. Movies (Flixster)
3. Superpoke (Slide)
4. Compare People
5. iLike
6. Superwall (RockYou)
7. Likeness (RockYou)
8. Quizzes
9. Funwall (Slide)
10. Graffiti