Posts from — March 2008

Here is the list of the carrier that iPhone comes locked with in each of the countries it is sold or shall be sold.

US – AT&T
Germany – T Mobile
UK – O2
France – Orange
Ireland – O2
Austria – T Mobile
Canada – Rogers
Mexico – Telcel
Italy – TIM
Japan – NTT DoCoMo
Australia – Telstra Mobile
China – China Mobile
India – Bharti Airtel
Spain – MoviStar

Wikipedia reached a milestone 10 million articles recently. The article was a Hungarian article about a sixteenth century painter Nicholas Hilliard. English, which is the most popular language on Wikipedia alone has close to 2.3 million articles. The other popular languages are German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

According to a Comscore report, Google had 515mm Paid clicks in the US in February. This is how the paid clicks growth rate on Google have been over the past few months:

October : +37%
November : +27%
December : +12%
January : 0%
February : +3%

The study was conducted on 162,662,052 sites for the month of March 2008. The market share rankings are:

1. Apache : 49.38%
2. Microsoft : 35.20%
3. Google : 8.33%
4. Sun : 0.26%
5. Lighttpd : 0.12%

Orkut’s popularity in Brazil and India shows up in the communities as well:

1. Portuguese : 40,460,878 communities
2. English : 3,738,534 communities
3. English (UK) : 469,538 communities
4. Spanish : 186,323 communities
5. Hindi : 43,837 communities
6. Estonian : 37,199 communities
7. French : 25,118 communities
8. Telugu : 23,925 communites

This statistic is based on the most gains made by websites in terms of the number of unique visitors (in thousands) against the same numbers in January 2008:

1. Mozilla Organization
2. Fish4 sites
3. British Sky Broadcasting
4. Royal Mail Group
5. Miniclip
6. Netshelter Technology Media
7. Facebook
8. Bebo
9. Yellow book Network
10. Trader Media Group

A recent study by the European commission puts US behind eight European countries when it comes to household broadband deployment. Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden have more than 30% penetration. This is followed by UK, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. USA comes behind all of these with 22.1% penetration.

The Q&A market have all along been dominated by Yahoo Answers though WikiAnswers have seemed to snatched a heavy chunk of market share over the past year from Yahoo. The top 5 sites with their market shares in the past year:

1. Yahoo Answers – 74.05%
2. WikiAnswers – 18.35%
3. AnswerBag – 4.51%
4. Ask Metafilter – 1.80%
5. Askville – 0.85%

The North American SEM market is projected to grow to reach $25 billion by 2011. The estimated market size over the years as provided by SEMPO:

2007 – $12.2 billion
2008 – $15.7 billion
2009 – $18.8 billion
2010 – $22.4 billion
2011 – $25.2 billion

There are two basic divisions on which the email archiving market is studied : The on-premise and the hosted email archiving solutions. In 2007, the combined revenues from both these markets was estimated to be $1.7 billion. This is expected to exponentially rise to $6.6 billion by 2012.