A latest report from an analytics firm reveals that 5 percent of all internet browsing in the world are now coming through mobile devices.
According to analytics firm Net Market Share, mobile internet browsing is now 5 percent of all internet browsing.
The data released last July 1 was collected by the analytics firm from 40,000 websites with about 160 million unique visitors every month.
Furthermore, mobile internet browsing is said to account for 8.2 percent of all internet browsing coming …

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What do you know, social media has dethroned porn as the most popular activity on the internet today.
The news comes as “Socialnomics”, an internet research project founded by Erik Qualman, recently released data they have uncovered.
However, a report from Digital Trends says that the bit that social media has overtaken porn as the most popular activity on the internet is only a …

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The internet is quite helpful but a new study reveals that its usefulness can extend to those who want to lose their extra weight.
According to a study published in the International Journal of Obesity, weight loss programs which have a web component have been found to be more successful than programs which do not.
Weight loss programs are very popular, given that there has also been a …

Lord Judge, the chief justice for the United Kingdom, sentenced a forty year old mother of three to eight months of jail because she chatted repeatedly on Facebook with a defendant.

The judge said in his ruling that Joanne Fraill, who also has three step children, directly violated her oath as a juror by repeatedly visiting the internet, and “her contact with the acquitted defendant, as well as her repeated searches on the internet, constituted flagrant breaches of the orders made by the …

President Barack Obama’s administration last Friday discussed the annual State Department report on the state of human rights in the world.
The administration confirmed the fact that almost all countries in the world are increasingly trying to restrict the Internet access to their people. In particular, the tendency to completely ‘cut off’ their citizens from the World Wide Web manifested in the last couple of months against the backdrop of mass demonstrations in Arab countries, the …

For those scratching their heads over whether to be concerned about privacy and their personal information on the net amidst all their Facebook fun, security analyst Robert Vamosi, has an answer for you: yes.
 
But Vamosi, author of “When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Our Infatuation with New Technology” also provides some valuable insight, helpful strategies and tips, and even reassurance for those of us who enjoy spending time on the internet for work and play. Vamosi this week …

One of the most key individuals in the development of the technologies which have made the Internet possible has died.
Paul Baran, a man whose work served as one of the backbones of Arpanet, a precursor to the World Wide Web, died in his Palo Alto home in California on Saturday. He was 84.
According to his son, the man who basically invented “packet switching”, a crucial technology employed to this day by on the Internet, died of complications from lung cancer.
The visionary proposed …

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Microsoft will be launching its latest web browser the Internet Explorer 9 on March 14, at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas.
The software giant will be holding a Microsoft Interactive Lounge by 9:30 in the morning at the Austin Convention Center on Monday, the SXSW schedule says, and this will be when Microsoft will presumably launch IE9.
Ryan Gavin, Senior Director of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Business and …

Renren, the biggest social networking website in China, is set to go public this spring with a $500 million public listing on NASDAQ and a $2-$3 billion market capitalization.  Investment bankers Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse are implementing the IPO of the Chinese equivalent of Facebook, before the U.S. Facebook goes public, following the IPO of two other Chinese companies Youku (similar to YouTube) and Dangdang (similar to Amazon).

Renren is the primary brand of Oak …

Multiple news sources reported on Friday that Libya was beginning to shut down its internet after earlier blocking access to Facebook, Twitter, and the Al Jazeera news  website.  Internet authority Renesys confirmed Friday night that Lybia is now off the internet, writing in its blog  “we wondered whether anyone would repeat Egypt’s strategy. Tonight it appears that we have our answer.”   When Egypt took down its internet, Renesys called it an unprecedented action in the history of …