Thursday, September 4, 2008

onmouseover="return window.status='http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=22660'" onmouseout="window.status=''" href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=22660">Internet traffic growth slows, research shows

Despite prognostications that the internet is about to collapse from the weight of traffic growth - especially video - international internet traffic grew 53 per cent between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61 per cent the preceding year, according to a market research firm. Robert Hernreich

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) lost nearly a full percentage point in market share during August, the browser's biggest drop in three months, NetApplications has confirmed. Robert Hernreich

Cablevision Systems Corp., one of the largest cable-TV providers in Monmouth and Ocean counties, finished the first phase of a $300 million wireless Internet network, a step that could give it an edge over telephone companies invading its territory. Robert Hernreich

Microsoft last week released a broadly available test version of its latest Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, including a tool to cover one's tracks across the Web. Robert Hernreich

Michael Dell believes that tiny subnotebooks could eventually be subsidized by cell companies looking to sell 3G service alongside the devices one day. If it sounds like the late 1990s all over again, you're rightand it didn't work too well then. Read More... Robert Hernreich

There are literally dozens of Internet phone services these days. These services use a technology known as Voice over Internet Protocol, or more commonly "VoIP." Robert Hernreich

Mobile ad agency, Crisp Wireless has published a quarterly overview of mobile internet traffic and reports that mobile web usage grew significantly with a 29.4% increase from 1Q08 to 2Q08. Robert Hernreich

Do not worry about conserving bandwidth: The internet's tubes aren't close to full, a new report finds. Internet capacity grew more than 60 percent in the last year and is growing faster than demand, even in the age of online video. Robert Hernreich

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