Net Applications data for January is out, and there are some interesting trends displayed. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ads, browser, Chrome, computer, download, email, Firefox, Google, internet, Internet Explorer, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Net Applications, visitors, Windows

Lodgings advertising banners in runet in 2010 will be cheaper, writes Kommersant. “Yandex” has lowered prices on 25-31,5 percent, and Mail.ru – 17 per cent. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, advertising, banners, internet, mail.ru, market, Rambler Media, RuNet, russia, Yandex

It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, account, attack, Blog, company, computer, Conficker, e-mail, Facebook, fails, Gmail, Google, Google Wave, hacker, information, internet, iPhone, iPod, LiveJournal, Mashable, Media, member, Microsoft, online, service, site, smartphone, social media, TechCrunch, technology, Twitter, users, Web, worldwide, Zune

Some ancient gadgets quietly died a natural death. All of these pagers, handheld computers, floppy drives – they are no longer with us. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: adapter, add, address, Blu-ray, browser, business cards, card, cars, CD, console, Corded phones, digital, document, download, email, fax, gadget, information, internet, iPhone, link, mobile phone, modem, MP3, music, network, print, printer, program, radio, registration, remote control, scanner, service, site, technology, television, USB, Video, web pages, wired phone, wireless, www

With All the Talk of CPMs Going to Zero, Here’s a Survey of Who’s Commanding Top Dollar Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: advertisers, CPMs, Facebook, Media, network, Online ad, rate, site, Twitter, Web

A small Missouri company with the word “Bing” in its name has sued Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition by the software giant. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: advertising, application, Bing, company, design, Microsoft, search engine, site, Web

Eat your heart out H1N1, gatecrashers and Aretha’s hat. According to Global Language Monitor — an algorithms company who used their Predictive Quantities Indicator to find their results — “Twitter” is the most-used word of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Barack Obama, Media, social network, Twitter, word

Currently ranking the popularity of 3,783,534 websites by parsing 302,023,552 blog posts from 5,948,937 blog feeds. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alexa, analytics, Blog, Compete, feeds, post, ranking, Technorati, traffic, URLFAN, Website

Scientists investigating a large crater in a field in northern Latvia, believed to have been caused by a meteorite, now suspect it was a hoax. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Hoax, Latvia, LETA, Meteorite, Tele2

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: app, broadband, business, companie, computers, content, Google, information, internet, Interview, rank, real time, search results, social media, Web, YouTube