Category: Internet Use/New Technologies

Taiwan’s Internet penetration rate stood at 65.07 percent last month, with the number of Internet users increasing by 1,476 compared with the figure six months earlier, according to the results of a survey released recently by the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC).

Fewer young people are watching television, according to a report by the media watchdog Ofcom.

There’s been some recent chatter about whether we’re entering the twilight of the blogs, even though it feels like we’re only in the late morning. Noon, at the latest.

A new survey shows New Zealanders are the second-largest users of the internet in the world. … The biggest uptake was in Malta, where 78.1% access the web. New Zealand was followed by Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Hong Kong, then Australia, the United States, Canada and Norway.

Broadband accounts for 64% of all net connections in the UK, according to official figures.

The worldwide number of Internet users surpassed 1 billion in 2005 — up from only 45M in 1995 and 420M in 2000.

The Internet audience increased at a rate of less than one percent in December, with growth in eight of the 11 countries tracked by Nielsen//NetRatings. The rate of growth appears to be slowing.

It may never be quite that easy. But cellphone pornography is a fast-growing business that analysts expect will generate about $2 billion in global revenue by 2009.