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We say yes to free hotel Internet
Posted by Optimize Your Web in Technology, Uncategorized on February 26th, 2010
John Park is our man in the UK; he is a Scottish MSP and believes that hotel broadband should be free. As frequent travelers to the UK we agree, it should be a part of the cost. John has asked the Scottish tourist board and the British Hossbitality Association to include internet access in ratings. As business travelers to the UK we support this activity.
How does Internet traffic break down?
Posted by Optimize Your Web in Technology, Uncategorized on April 24th, 2009
I was reading one of my favourite magazines WIRED (this year’s September version) and saw the following data on how traffic on the Internet breaks down. 45% is web traffic, must be HTTP and FTP, P2P has some 25%, Streaming has surprisingly low 8%, email has some 6%, VOIP has 3%, IP VPN has 3% and the rest 8% is other.
Now you know what causes internet traffic.
Google reports one Trillion unique URLs on the Internet
Posted by Optimize Your Web in Technology, Uncategorized on July 28th, 2008
“Google says the Web has hit a new milestone: more than one trillion active, unique URLs.” That is something like 1.000.000 x 1.000.000 = 1.000.000.000.000. To compare that number to something:
1.000.000.000.000
305.000 people live in Iceland
65.000.000 people live in the UK (around)
235.000.000 people live in the US (around)
7.000.000.000 people live on the earth
5 people live, not on earth :-)
Con grat internet users, this is a milestone!
Finding your bank account emptied can be a nightmare!
Posted by Optimize Your Web in Technology, Uncategorized on July 28th, 2008
True? Hmmm yes…. Online identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America and the UK, with over over 50,000 people become victims of identity theft every day. Imagine that!
85% of victims don’t even find out about the theft, until they’re denied credit, the average victim spends over 600 hours fixing the problem, it takes the average victim a staggering one and a half year to return to normality! To top it up one in ten adults will be victims of identity theft in the next five years and the amount of cash spent during an average identity theft crime is 100,000 US dollars.
And to top it up Internet users like me and you are a staggering 50x more likely to fall victime to identity theft than those that do not use the Internet.
What is the world comming to!
Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh Internet usage survey
Posted by Optimize Your Web in Uncategorized on July 16th, 2008
Results show that the vast majority of Icelandic households have a computer and access to the Internet. In 2008, 92% of the households had a computer and 88% of the households had access to the Internet. The xDSL Internet connection is the most common type of Internet connections within Icelandic households whereas 94% of the Internet-connected households used an xDSL connection in 2008. That year only 5% of the Internet-connected households used a dial-up telephone connection or an ISDN connection.
Use of computers and the Internet is very widespread among individuals in Iceland. In 2008, 92% of the population aged 16–74 years used a computer and 91% had used the Internet in a period of three months prior to the survey. As in previous years the Internet is mainly used for information search and communication. In 2008, 36% of internet users aged 16–74 years had ordered goods or services over the Internet during a period of three months prior to the survey. As in previous years, the most popular goods and services purchased over the Internet are related to travel and accommodation.
It appears email is the preferred method
Posted by Optimize Your Web in Uncategorized on November 25th, 2007
Email is the preferred method of communications in the workplace. At least according to a study made by Diemension Data recently. In fact everybody, 100% of end users asked use email as their main communication channel, followed by fixed-line telephones, 80%. 76% use mobile phones and 66% use instant messaging. And where did I see this? Well I was sitting in the lounge at JFK and saw it in some computer magasine I picked up there. Trival data? No not when you look at the fixed line versus mobile. That reminds me 93% of college students own mobile phones compared to 69% five years ago. My “phone” is a 400 mhz, 128 mb ram and 2 gb HDD computer, it’s 4x more power full than my first Pentium PC.