Posts Tagged with ‘AFP’

“They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year… equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.” Vinton Cerf - Internet - Business - Innovation
The Internet is now ready to explore new frontiers in outer space, Vinton Cerf, one of its co-creators predicted last week during a news conference (Agence France-Presse). According to Cerf, the “Internet service would give people an ability to access information and to [...]

South Korea is poised to establish a code of Internet ethics to curb the distribution of pornographic and other inappropriate materials there. A bill is being sent to their parliament for approval this year according to Vice Information Minister Yoo Younghwan. The growth of South Korea's Web presence has grown exponentially and essentially without regulation this year and officials are concerned about social responsibility from Internet constituencies.
Web 2.0 and the World 
Web 2.0 has ushered in a worldwide connectivity we could [...]

MySpace introduced itself in China yesterday after months of speculation about the social networks entry into the 137 million user market. MySpace China will be a locally owned and operated company run by CEO Luo Chuan, a former Microsoft executive. According to Chan MySpace China will have the final decision on the operating model and product strategy for this new arm of the world's most popular social networking site.
Recent entries into the Chinese market have met with either a great wall [...]

Are there more women online in America or are there more men? I bet your natural inclination would be to say men. Well, according to a study released recently women out number men by about ten percent.
According to eMarketer about 97 million women use the Internet in The U.S., while male users number roughly 91 million. One of the reasons for the disparity are the activities available on the Web. According to the study there are more female oriented activities [...]

Just when we thought Google was done with big international moves, news arrives about the behemoth opening an operations center near Wroclaw, Poland. According to a local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the company's European sales executive Colm Long said the search for center personnel has already begun. 
According to an AFP/Yahoo! press release, Wroclaw has become something of a high-tech center in Poland. The new “outpost” will officially be Google's second largest outside their Dublin continental hub. The new outpost will handle [...]

Waxing as profoundly as a herd of Greek philosophers, the blogosphere is attempting to right itself in the aftermath of the Kathy Sierra incident. Everyone from Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales to the least commenter at Digg is having their say about conduct on the Web. The evident “shiver” running up the spines of some bloggers at the utterance of words like code and conduct is indicative of a kind of polarity that exists. Let's assume that there are obviously several [...]

Are you a relentless wilfer? A recent study by YouGov polling on the habits of surfers in Britain revealed that the average user spent an average of two whole days a month surfing the net aimlessly! The term wilfing is short for "what was I looking for?" I am sure most of us have thought that at one time or another, but wilfing has always been a rather unquantifiable hazard.
According to the study released via Yahoo/AFP, over two thirds of [...]

How is the Web 2.0 social networking scene doing. We connect and connect and I always wonder exactly how the scene is doing. On Wednesday Hitwise revealed that online traffic to MySpace increased 10.2 percent in February.
Smaller players like Buzznet and iMeem also benefited with traffic increases over 11 percent. Visits to photo journal sharing website Buzznet and the iMeem site more than doubled according to an article at AFP via Yahoo! News. MySpace accounted for 80 percent of social networking [...]

Rollback prices! Maybe we rolled too far!
Mobile phone firm Bharti Enterprises is aiming to start a chain of retail stores in India with US based Wal-Mart, and is reported to be prepared to invest $2.5 Billion dollars by 2015. Bharti Enterprises owns India's largest private phone firm and intends to open stores in cities with a population of more than one million. India's rapidly growing middle class estimated at 1.1 billion spends $300 billion dollars on retail shopping, according to [...]