Web-based Display Advertisement Market Shoots Up to 190 Billion, Brazilians Take On Digital Advertising. (Image: espensorvik, via Flickr / CC)

comScore recently released a data showing that 190.5 billion display advertisements were delivered to the Brazilian Internet audience within the Q1 2012 alone.
Mr. Alex Banks, comScore’s Managing Director for Brazil says, “As the digital ad sector in Brazil grows and becomes more sophisticated, we are seeing an influx of large brand advertisers …

Japanese Researchers Record 3Gbps Data Transfer in TeraHertz Frequency Band. (Image: Tomoir III, via Flickr / CC)

Japanese researchers have finally broken into the 3Gbps barrier of Wi-Fi data transmission at 542GHz as part of the TeraHertz frequency band.
Researchers from the land of the rising sun said the TeraHertz band, which covers frequencies from 300GHz to 3THz, will eventually allow wireless data transmission to reach 100Gbps speeds – a number substantially greater than …

The Galaxy S II is Samsung's most purchased smartphone to date. (Image: Alan_D, via Flickr / CC)

Researchers at analytics firm Gartner have discovered that South Korean smartphone maker now leads the mobile phone market in terms of sales, overtaking Finnish long-time leader Nokia.
The study found that Samsung now sits at the perch during a period when overall market conditions are in a decline. The full report is available at Gartner’s official website and costs $10,000.
According to …

Online Video Engagement Skyrockets in Germany. (Image: Maurits Knook, via Flickr / CC)

ComScore released data yesterday that implies that within March 2012 alone, 46.9 million German Internet users accessed video content online, which is 2.3 percent higher than last year. What’s more, the average time spent by viewers watching videos on the Internet has also increased by 33.7 percent over the year.
Unsurprisingly, Google Sites is still the number one video host in the German online video …

HTC One X. (Image: HTC)

HTC has followed its flagship Android handset, the One X, as the US Customs blocked it from entering American store shelves over “unresolved patent infringement issues” with Apple.
The Taiwanese smartphone maker currently faces an Apple patent skirmish that covers the Cupertino-based company’s procedure in allowing mobile devices to read phone numbers and addresses in text format and automatically move it to other applications. While HTC already talked …

Google Will Release Android 5.0 Jelly Bean on Five Mobile Devices. (Image: Samantha Murray, via Flickr / CC)

According to a certain report from reputable news site Wall Street Journal, Google will release its upcoming Android 5.0 Jelly Bean mobile operating system on several Nexus-branded smartphones to try and fix fragmentation.
The online search giant and software developer usually launches one Nexus handset at a time to promote and test the latest version of its Android OS prior to gradual …

BBC Unfolds Digital Olympics Plans. (Image: Duncan Hull, via Flickr / CC)

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced its plans for the upcoming London 2012 Olympics, which covers the release of dedicated mobile apps for iOS and Android devices.
BBC bills its reportage for the most prestigious sporting event as the “most comprehensive coverage of an Olympic Games ever”, with plans to broadcast it on multiple channels, including mobile and tablet devices, PC and …

Dell Apologizes To Women After Misogynous Comments. (Image: ethan lindsey, via Flickr / CC)

Dell has vented out its apology to all women on social networking site Google+ concerning comments delivered by a company representative at one of its events.
While it is uncommon for a tech firm to acknowledge faults and mistakes to a gender group, it is also uncommon to hire guest speakers that release misogyny, or hatred for women, at events previously known to be courteous.
Christiane Vejlø, a …

U.S. Spent $44.3 Billion for Retail E-Commerce in Q1 2012

Estimates for retail e-commerce sales released recently show that money spent for online retail in the United States has reached $44.3 billion for the first quarter of this year, an amount 17 percent higher than last year’s estimates for Q1. This has been the tenth consecutive annual growth for the first quarter alone, and also the sixth time when growth in the first quarter has two digits.
Gian Fulgoni, chairman of comScore, …

Google is the Most Used U.S. Search Engine in April 2012

Industry analyst comScore has released its monthly analysis of the search industry in the United States. Findings show that Google Sites has continued to be on the top of the most queried search engine in the U.S., handling 66.5 percent of the total search queries conducted by users.
Google Sites led the ranking with 66.5 percent of the total market shares – higher by 0.1 percent point than the previous month, followed by Microsoft …