Archive for December, 2007
iTunes vs. Zune
This comparison is solely for the Christmas day 2007. Market share of visits to Zune increased by 392% compared to the previous day Market share of visits to the Apple store(to download iTunes) increased by 169% compared to previous day Market Share of visits to Zune on Christmas day : 0.09% Market Share of visits [...]
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Apple, Microsoft.
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PC World Top 25 Most Innovative Products for 2007
The list of 25 products are 1. Google Gears 2. Apple iPhone 3. One Laptop per Child OLPC XO Notebook 4. Apple Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 5. Amazon Kindle 6. Netgear Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000 7. HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC 8. AT&T Tilt 9. Facebook API 10. DeviceVM Splashtop 11. Toshiba [...]
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Gadgets, Milestones, Miscellaneous.
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Japanese Online ad spend
Worth of online advertising market in Japan : $3.4 billion to $4.1 billion Projected growth by 2011 : $6.8 billion to $7 billion Contribution of Search based Online ad spending : 27% Contribution of mobile based online ad spending : 42.5%
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Demographics, Online Marketing.
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Video Gaming in India
India’s internet population is 42 million strong Percentage of them that are active gamers : 5% Revenues from Gaming in India : $30 million per year
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Demographics, Gaming.
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Netscape Navigator dead?
AOL that acquired Netscape in November 1998 shall stop development work on the Netscape Navigator browser from February 1, 2008. This shall mark the end of the first commercial Internet browser. The browser first came into being in October 1994 and it currently has a 0.6% market share in the browser market.
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under browsers, Milestones.
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Internet and Cellphone Usage of American Population
38% Americans watch Television shows online 36% use Cellphones for entertainment purposes 45% are involved in creating Social web content 62% of millennials(13-24 years) use cellphones as entertainment devices 20% of the people watch video content on the cellphones almost everyday 54% of the population socialize through the Social networking websites Source : Hollywood reporter
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Demographics, internet, Mobile Internet.
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How rampant is IP violation?
Legally filling up an iPod shall cost upto $40,000. This has been the reason of the rampant violation of IP. According to Digital Music News, over 36.4 percent of the world’s computers have Limewire installed on them. Usage of BitTorrent is lesser, but it consumes more bandwidth since most downloads using BT are movies.
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Ecommerce, Miscellaneous.
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Residual Impact of iPhones and iPods on Apple's Revenue
This post is not about the revenue from sales of iPods and iPhones. It is about the sale of songs, movies and TV Shows through iTunes. 5 Million iPhones are expected to be sold by the end of 2007 25 Million is the iPod sale for the current quarter This gives a total of 5-10 [...]
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Apple, Ecommerce, Mobile Internet.
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Mobile Internet Population in Japan
90 percent of Japanese own a mobile handset. 40 percent of this population use mobile phones to surf internet. Population of Japanese using the Internet : 89.1 million 90 percent of under-40 Japanese are online Does this give an idea of how much the Japanese are going to use cellphones to surf Internet?
Posted: December 28th, 2007 under Demographics, internet, Mobile Internet.
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Are Online Coupons popular over Newspaper Coupons
NO. The online coupon market is indeed growing, but at a very sluggish pace The number of visitors to online coupon websites in October 2006 : 19.1 million The number of visitors to online coupon websites in October 2007 : 20.3 million This is simply a growth of just 6 percent.
Posted: December 27th, 2007 under internet, Miscellaneous, Online Marketing.
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