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TV Still Dominates U.S. Consumer Media Usage
10th January 2012
A report produced by Nielsen Wire, on the usage of different forms of electronic media, has found that almost one-third of homes in the U.S. own four or more television sets. The report also claims that TV continues to be the most popular form of electronic media across the country in spite of the rapid growth of online media consumption. More »
Internet Usage In South East Asia Surges
15th November 2011
A recent report from Nielsen has indicated that Internet use in South East Asia is on the rise. The study finds that not only is the internet growing in popularity but it is even out-shining the use of other traditional media channels such as TV radio and the print media. More »
Are Facebook And The Internet More Important Than Toilets?
13th September 2011
A study conducted by the Science Museum in London has revealed that the Internet and Facebook rank higher than basic necessities in a list of fifty things that the British public said they cannot do without. More »
Google TV To Launch In U.K.
26th August 2011
While Google TV was launched almost a year ago in the U.S.A. it is only later this year or early next year that they are expected to go on sale in the U.K. More »
Use Of Rich Media Ads Doubles
22nd August 2011
The latest display benchmarks released by Google cover a variety of properties ranging from click through rate to engagement metrics such as interaction and expansion rate and average interaction time across a range of ad sizes, creative types and industry verticals. More »
Indians Stop Wasting Time Online
9th August 2011
It has been found that unlike in the past, Indians are now spending less time surfing the net in a meaningless or aimless manner. Instead, most of their online activities are now well thought out or pre-planned. More »
UK About To Hit Piracy Sites Hard
28th July 2011
The Motion Pictures Association (MPA), which had filed a case to block Newzbin 2 from providing their members with pirated content, has been successful in their objective. More »
Spelling Mistakes Affect Online Sales
20th July 2011
Spelling mistakes in shopping websites are proving to be very costly for the marketers, according to an article recently published on the BBC. More »
Google Unveils Cool New ‘Chromebook’
13th May 2011
Google announced at the I/O conference this week that they will soon be selling two new laptop devices called Chromebooks. More »
Ads On Websites To Be Monitored
1st March 2011
While ads on traditional media such as TV, radio, billboards and print are closely monitored, online ads and statements made by companies have escaped any form of censorship so far. More »
Online Advertising And Video Popular With SMBs
4th February 2011
A report from WebVisible shows that the average small business advertiser in the United States spent $2,126 in the 4th quarter of 2010 on online advertising. More »
Facebook Tests Groupon Killer
27th January 2011
Facebook will now be testing a new feature called ‘Buy With Friends’ that is likely to give serious competition to social buying site, Groupon. More »
53 Billion Visits To Piracy Sites In 2010
14th January 2011
Anti-fraud firm, MarkMonitor, recently carried out a study to estimate the extent of online piracy prevalent in society. The results were quite shocking, to say the least. More »
Glasgow Subway Gets Wi-Fi, Could Bump Mobile Internet Use
29th October 2010
Wi-fi services have just been made available, starting this week, on the Glasgow subway. This is the first sector of the British underground railway network to be equipped with mobile Internet connectivity. More »
Stanford Homes To Get Ultra-High Speed Broadband
25th October 2010
Google had announced a while ago, that they were planning to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks for some select American communities. They are now ready to launch a beta of this ambitious project. More »
Mobile Is The Best Route To Some Markets
25th August 2010
A recent report on the Nielsen Blog indicates that the growth of the information and communications sectors is showing a changing trend across the world. This is especially true in countries with a growing middle-class population such as India, China, Russia, Bangladesh, Turkey and Egypt. More »
Traffic Loss To The Times Due To Paywall
2nd August 2010
Following the trend started by some other publications, The Times of London has recently started the practice of using a paywall to prevent readers from accessing their online content for free. More »
Canadian White Pages Dying Due To Search
4th June 2010
The growth of the Internet in general, and online and mobile search, in particular, has just claimed another victim – the Canadian White Pages directory service. More »
59% of Americans Use TV And Internet Together
24th March 2010
A recent report from Nielsen Company has found that 35% more Americans now access the Internet while watching TV than a year ago. More »
Google Building Experimental Broadband Network
18th February 2010
Google has recently announced that they are planning to build a new experimental high speed broadband network across a few locations in the U.S.A. More »
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