Posts Tagged with ‘U.S.A.’

We here at Profy first profiled Gather.com - a social networking site geared to provide a meeting place of sorts (hence the title) for above-average intellectual discussion (as opposed to the mostly idiocratic MySpace and so forth) - in November of 2006. The following February we delved in a bit deeper, spotlighting the site’s establishment of Essentials, a selection of channels comprised of expert sources of information for books, music, health, money, and so on.
And in September, we [...]

An interesting yet thoroughly predictable finding resulting from a survey taken by the website Broadbandchoices.co.uk, as reported by the BBC today, is the overwhelming demand for fast and high-quality digital downloads of feature-length films.
Why interesting? Why predictable?
Well, clearly consumers wish to have their Web connections and cloud-based services provide easy access to great catalogues of titles of all genres, a la Netflix (albeit operated entirely over the Internet), as it would require one to perform fewer functions to enjoy items [...]

I’ve been known to rag on Yahoo! here at Profy far more often than praise or glorify the company. But hey, as the saying goes, you gotta call ‘em as you see ‘em, right?
And the media on the whole has rightly pilloried the Web giant for a number of its controversial actions and statements; some more egregious than others, of course. I mean, come on. Divulging sensitive information to Chinese authorities about dissident voices? Despite the threat of [...]

It’s safe to say that a good portion of the world resides in a 3G era. It's here in North America. It's over there in Europe, and Asia. And in numerous pockets elsewhere. Wireless broadband, though short of being a quantitatively “mainstream” convenience (in the way, say, domestic DSL and cable Internet services are today), is all over the globe. And if it's not everywhere, it soon will be. Looking at where we've come from, it's reasonable to think that [...]

Apparently, we are all being observed under a series of magnifying glasses for various purposes. Have you ever wondered if other people search for the same things you do? Statistics from Google (who else) reveal some interesting facts about the world's search habits.
As it turns out - Egypt, India and Turkey are at the top of the list for the term sex for Google searches there. The stats are actually quite interesting and even disturbing.
What conclusions we draw from [...]

Dailymotion, once a newsmaker solely for its hand in the illicit proliferation of copyrighted content, has in recent months (or is it years?) made great headway to cast the image of its former self aside and put its best, non-illegal foot forward, using its records of viewer numbers, among other figures, to attract legitimate licensing deals and to secure very significant sums of funding.
The company revealed this last Friday, August 31, that in its second round of VC solicitations [...]

End Of Service Announcement: Free SkypeOut calls to US and Canadian phones ends December 31, 2006.
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Skype, the world leader in online telephony is about to close the door on their VERY popular promotion - Free SkypeOut calls in North America. So, if you’ve been putting off making those holiday greeting calls or best of the New Year calls to friends, family and colleagues, you better start budgeting your time over the [...]