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View ArticleExactly how ginormous is Android?
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View ArticleSouth Korea retains Internet speed crown with 17.5 Mbps
In January, we reported that South Korea has the fastest average Internet connection speed in the world, a position it’s commanded for many years. Now, in the latest figures from Akamai, covering Q4...
View ArticleState of the US smartphone market
The United States may be overtaken by China as the world’s largest smartphone market this year, but it’s nevertheless a huge and highly influential market. According to Comscore, more than 100 million...
View ArticlePinterest has overtaken Tumblr in the United States
The Web has been abuzz about Pinterest for a while now. There is, shall we say, a great interest in Pinterest. So much interest, it turns out, that Pinterest in all likelihood is now getting more...
View ArticleReport: Social network demographics in 2012
Do you know how old the average Twitter or Facebook user is? Do you know what share of Reddit’s users are women? We could go on and on; when it comes to social network demographics, the questions are...
View ArticleWebsite performance and uptime in the US presidential election
The US presidential election is certainly heating up. With Election Day on November 6 approaching fast and the television debates on schedule, we thought we would take a look at how the candidates are...
View ArticleAsia is both top and bottom of the world Internet speed league
It should come as no surprise that the world’s fastest Internet connection speeds can be found in Asia, with Hong Kong offering an impressive 54.1 Mbps, the fastest in the world. But would you believe...
View ArticleExactly how ginormous is Android?
There is no denying that Android, Google’s operating system for mobile devices, is big. For example, Android is the OS on 42% of all consumer compute devices. We have scoured the web for data that will...
View ArticleBroadband prices vary extremely across the world
Have you ever felt that the price of your broadband is too high? We hear you. But instead of complaining, we thought we should find out where in the world we had to move to get the cheapest broadband...
View ArticleThe top 100 web hosting countries
Last week we showed that the top 1 million web sites in the world were hosted in almost 8,000 different cites. If these top sites were evenly distributed across the world, there would be about 5,900...
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