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Pew survey finds America’s internet, broadband and mobile phone use flatlines
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project has identified some flat lines in Americans technology use in a report released Tuesday that examined Internet, broadband, and cell phone use nationally. The percentage of U.S. adults who use the Internet is just a point higher than it was back in 2006, clocking in... »
Ufone Your Chance to Earn Through BlackBerry
Hafeez Center Lahore is full of BlackBerrys these days, courtesy Ufone’s discounted offers to educational institutions, particularly a special deal with MCB whereby all the MCB group employees are able to get any BlackBerry model on a 40% discount and 20% is waived off on services. At MCB group, BlackBerry is given to the managers... »
Against all odds, broadband internet continues to grow in the EU
With more than 11 million new fixed lines laid in a year, the take up of broadband internet continues to grow in Europe. According to a report published today by the European Commission, 24% of the EU population had a broadband access line subscription in July 2009, up from 21.6% in July... »
Australian telcos move on SMS scams
The communications watchdog has welcomed a bipartisan effort by Optus and Telstra to crack down on premium SMS providers operating on their networks. The decision of the two carriers follows industry statistics revealing skyrocketing complaints about premium SMS services and the Federal Court’s decision to impose $15.8 million worth of fines on a Queensland mobile... »
Anti-Phishing Working Group Release Phishing Activity Trends Report: The Internet Has Never Been More Dangerous
The quarterly APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report analyzes phishing attacks reported to the APWG by its member companies, its Global Research Partners, through the organization’s website at www.antiphishing.org and by email submissions to reportphishing@antiphishing.org. APWG also measures the evolution, proliferation and propagation of crimeware drawing from the research of our member companies. In the... »
DVDs, On Demand, Netflix & Streaming Video By the Numbers
A few weeks ago, I relegated my 6-year-old Sony DVD player to exclusive CD playback duties and replaced it with a new, network-enabled Samsung Blu-Ray DVD player, which includes access to Netflix’s streaming service for that company’s subscribers. So I signed in and before you know it, I had wasted my entire weekend catching... »
Internet now dominated by ‘traffic superpowers’
Something extraordinary is happening to the Internet. According to one of the largest analyses of traffic yet undertaken, what the world calls ‘ the Internet’ is rapidly turning into an entity that exists inside and between a tiny number of hosting superpowers. According to Arbor Networks, which gathered the data for its 2009 Atlas Observatory... »
Three Chinese Telecom Operators Release Latest Operating Statistics
The three major Chinese telecom operators, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, have all published their latest operating statistics, with China Mobile and China Telecom providing their financial reports for the first quarter of 2009 and China Unicom revealing its performance for March 2009. To read this report from China Tech News in full,... »
RadiSys adds VQE to Convedia media server
RadiSys announced today it has added voice quality enhancement (VQE) features to its Convedia Media Server. The new VQE solution removes common sources of poor voice quality in VoIP conferencing applications, including noise, packet loss and echo, and captures statistics for voice quality measurement suitable for upholding SLAs. RadiSys VQE implements noise gating, noise reduction... »
A Powerful Twitter Marketing Toolbox: HootSuite
One of the things which helped to make Twitter popular is the ability to use it from third party clients. In most cases, these clients offer users more features than those available on the web version of Twitter itself. On my Mac, I used Twitterrific, Twhirl, Tweetdeck and many others, while I’m now sticking with... »
It Is Truly a Planet Facebook
Facebook, which recently surpassed 175 million active users, has benefited from its growth in the overseas markets. There’s no denying that the company is growing at a breakneck speed across the planet. Yesterday, I met Ghassan Haddad, Facebook’s director of localization, and he shared some data that made me realize just how quickly... »
How Wireless Carriers Are Faring as Consumers Cut Costs
Geezeo.com submits: Consumers are looking to cut costs wherever they can. Looking at MSSI statistics of five major wireless carriers reveals that the cell phone industry is no different. Spending levels at Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S), Verizon (NYSE: VZ), AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) have all seen... »
ContactQ Enhances Asterisk’s Call Center Functionality
ContactQ is a new call center application server created by Braxtel Communications designed to run on Asterisk that brings advanced call center functionality to the Asterisk platform. Their aim is to handle any sort of contact method and put it into their advanced multi-media queue. For instance, they plan on queuing video calls, text... »
Skype: Mr. Silverman goes to Washington
WASHINGTON – As the Obama administration moves into the nation’s capital, Skype President Josh Silverman was in town this week to shake hands and kiss babies among members of Congress and policy mavens. Skype wants to make sure its views are heard on net neutrality, wireless openness, the universal service fund, E-911 and national broadband... »
Still No Sight of Japanese Exaflood
Andrew Schmitt submits: We looked at Japanese bandwidth use in the past and concluded that widespread FTTH deployment is not creating a dramatic jump in bandwidth growth. A recent paper out of Japan with updated data reinforces this conclusion. Japan is by far the world’s largest FTTH deployment and is the best proxy for predicting... »
CES 2009: TV, cell phones, business = Ubiquitous Skype
A Skype button on your TV set? Pre-loaded Skype on cell phones? Skype faxing? Fierce caught up with Skype COO Scott Durchslag in Las Vegas for a wide ranging discussion of the company’s vision for Skype everywhere, some big-big appreciation of the VAR/channel partner space, and why the company is hiring in the midst of... »