Press release: “One of the latest reports from Javelin Strategy & Research shows why financial institutions must engage in blogging now, and provides specific steps for assessing this powerful new brand-building and customer-connection capability into 2008-10 strategic plans. According to the study of over 3,500 consumers, one in five online consumers read blogs, yet blogs… Continue Reading
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Report Highlights Surge in Net Traffic Driven By Demand for Video Content
Press release: “New Millennium Research Council Analysis report finds growing Internet traffic, driven by online video, requires ongoing investment in new capacity and intelligent networks.” The Never Ending Rush Hour – Internet Traffic Growth Requires Continual Investment in Capacity and Innovation in Network Management, August 9, 2007 (21 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Growing Interest in People Finding Generates New Web Sites and Less Privacy
Online Snooping Gets Creepy, By Anita Hamilton: “…An estimated 30% of all Web searches are aimed at finding people, according to industry statistics, and upstarts like PeekYou, Pipl, Spock, and Wink are vying for a piece of this potentially huge market. These free sites work by scouring the Web for any virtual footprints you might… Continue Reading
Microsoft Announces Enhanced Privacy Protections for Customers
Press release: “Expanding on its ongoing work to help protect customer privacy, Microsoft Corp. today announced an enhanced set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles outline new, enhanced steps to help protect the privacy of Microsoft® Windows Live users, including making search query data anonymous… Continue Reading
Pew Research Report on China's Online Population Explosion
Press release: “The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a new report on China’s internet user population. There are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million. The growth rate… Continue Reading
Largest Single Personal Data Breach to Date Involves Info on 2.3 Million Customers
Press release: “Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, Certegy Check Services, Inc., a service provider to U.S. retail merchants, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., was victimized by a former employee who misappropriated and sold consumer information to a data broker who, in turn, sold a subset of that data to a… Continue Reading
Democratic Candidates' Site Traffic Market Share and Rankings
“In a custom report created for ClickZ News, Hitwise measured traffic market share of the candidate sites. The measurement firm found traffic to Democratic candidate sites was top heavy, favoring Clinton’s, Obama’s and Edwards’s sites. HillaryClinton.com garnered nearly a third of visits among Democratic candidate sites in May. BarackObama.com attracted almost 28 percent, and JohnEdwards.com… Continue Reading
FTC Issues Staff Report on Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commissions Internet Access Task Force today issued a report, Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy, which summarizes the Task Forces findings in the area of broadband Internet connectivity and, in particular, so-called network neutrality regulation. Based on these findings, and FTC staffs experience with the operation of myriad markets throughout the economy,… Continue Reading
Special Report Examines Role of Info Industry Big Three in Web Security
NEWS.COM Special Report: Wardens of the WebTalkBack: Global security challenge falls to an elite corps, June 25, 2007 “The job of policing the Web has been left to the corporate world by default. The burden weighs heavily on a trio of companies in particular: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft–the three firms with the most traffic on… Continue Reading
PWC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2007-2011
PricewaterhouseCoopers, PWC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2007-2011: “The leading entertainment and media industry forecast. Covering the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Canada. In-depth global analyses and 5-year growth projections for 14 industry segments.” fee, but free industry segments’ summaries are available. Continue Reading
Parents, Children and Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey
“Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, is a national survey of 1,008 parents of children ages 2-17, along with a series of six focus groups held with parents across the country. The survey explores such issues as media content, media ratings and the V-Chip, media monitoring, educational media, advertising, and the Internet.”… Continue Reading
Surveys Examine the Impact of the Growing Cell-Only Population
Follow up to May 14, 2007 posting, Nearly 16% of U.S. Homes Have No Landline Phone, see also these related studies: The Landline-less Are Different and Their Numbers Are Growing Fast, by Scott Keeter, Director, Survey Research, Pew Research Center, June 20, 2007 What’s Missing from National RDD Surveys? The Impact of the Growing Cell-Only… Continue Reading
