Sony has installed the world’s fastest home internet connection in Japan.So-net Entertainment began offering its “Nuro” fiber-based service to homes, apartments, and small businesses in Tokyo and six surrounding prefectures. It is a fibre-based internet service that reaches download speeds of 2 gigabit per second (Gbps), making it more than 20 times faster than the [...]
Let’s have a better understanding of Internet in 2012. Some interesting findings: 1.2 trillion – Number of searches on Google in 2012. 85,962 – Number of monthly posts per Facebook Page in Brazil, the most active country on Facebook. 47% – Percentage of Facebook users that are female. 200 million – Monthly active users on Twitter, passed in December. 819,000+ – Number of [...]
Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today’s average broadband. No more buffering. No more loading. No more waiting. Gigabit speeds will get rid of these pesky, archaic problems and open up new opportunities for the Web….
Coca-Cola, Bonobos and General Electric acknowledge the power of a good story. It’s called content marketing, and it’s a mixture of equal parts inspiration, intelligence, technology, and good old-fashioned barnstorming. “Coca-Cola has more than 41 million fans on Facebook from all over the world who ask questions, jump into discussions and most importantly create and [...]
The “open” Internet is in danger from very powerful forces, including Facebook and Apple,” apprehends Sergey Brin , Google co-founder, in an interview with the Guardian. The threat to the freedom of the internet comes, he claims, from a combination of governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, the entertainment [...]
First, have a look at the queries that somewhere challenge the very fundamentals of the traditional education system: What is school for? How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold for overall structure of education system? Now, let’s go through some of the [...]
YouTube’s new premium content push is seemingly a direct challenge to the television industry. Market is also abuzz with reports that Google is considering offering paid cable-TV services to consumers. Such initiative from YouTube shows that walls between traditional television and digital video are collapsing. So, as predicted by some industry veterans, Internet TV is [...]
“In performance marketing, advertisers and marketers only pay for successful transactions. Each transaction is based on a consumer taking a defined action, such as making a purchase from the advertiser or signing up for a subscription. The trackability of performance marketing isn’t based on estimates. It’s based on actual results — meaning that a marketing [...]
Scared of having your account passwords phished and hacked? Terrified of losing your most closely-held information, photos, documents, etc? And, that’s why it’s important to take steps to help secure your activities online. Now, you need not worry much, if you are having Google Account. Google has developed an advanced opt-in security feature called 2-step [...]
Facebook has rolled out its location-based promotions service Deals to the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Users of the Facebook for iPhone and Androids apps and the mobile site can access special discounts and charity donations in exchange for a check-in in via Facebook Places that spreads a brand’s name in their stream. For [...]