The UK government has published the final ‘Digital Britain report’ in an attempt to describe the digital future economy. The 245-page report can be downloaded in full here.
The main key points of the report are as follows:
The UK is to have a Universal Service Commitment of 2Mbps (2 Mega bits per second) by 2012, this [...]
The latest April 2009 statistics from Nielsen Online reveal that Facebook is now the most popular website in the UK, which has increased its market share from 7.2% at the same time in 2008 to 12.7% now (+5.6%). The top ten most heavily used UK web brands (below) also accounted for 45% of all UK [...]
The latest survey of 4,000 adults by advertising firm Burst Media has revealed that 80.1% of web surfers are concerned about the online privacy of their personal information (i.e. age, gender, income and web surfing habits). Furthermore the concern increases with age, rising from 67.3% among respondents 18-24 years to 85.7% with respondents 55 years [...]
The latest web browser market share report from Net Applications:
65.55% – Internet Explorer
21.53% – Firefox
8.29% – Safari
1.12% – Chrome
0.70% – Opera
0.57% – Netscape
0.22% – Other
The report highlights further gains in Firefox (+0.19%) and Safari (+0.36%) users along with the continued drop in Internet Explorer users (-0.6%) since December 2008.
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Website monitoring service Pingdom has updated its blog to include a broad summary of global 2008 Internet statistics. The results make for an interesting read and highlight details such as how 53.8 trillion junk email (SPAM) messages were sent last year accounting for 70% of all mail.
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1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
210 [...]
