In January 2007, Japan recorded a milestone 100 million mobile phones. In another one year, by January 2008, this number had increased to 100.9 million mobile phones. The number of mobile phones is closely inching towards the country’s population. Japan has 127 million people and 80 percent of its people now own a mobile phone.

3G technology was hyped up as the next big thing in mobile phones. However, it has failed to take off at least in UK. Less than 11 percent of the population in UK had 3G on their mobile phones till 2006. This number had reached to 18% by the end of 2007, yet there has [...]

A study on the North American mobile phone market reveals that over 60 percent usage of mobile phone internet is on downloads. The break down of the different utilities are Downloads – 62% Adult – 9% Web/WAP – 9% Portal Navigation – 8% Information (lottery, news, horoscope) – 3% Others – 7% Unknown – 2%

Firefox has now been downloaded 500,000,000 times. This is a milestone for the browser that now has a regular users base of over 150 million users. The site claims a 17% share in the browser market where Internet Explorer is the market leader.

16.6 percent of all clicks on ads in the last quarter of 2007 were click frauds. For the same period in 2006, the fraud percent was just 14.2. The top contributor nations to click fraud are 1. India – 4.3% 2. Germany – 3.9% 3. South Korea – 3.7% 4. Mexico

The projections for the US Online retail market has widely differed among the different research agencies. eMarketer projects a $100 billion more in 2012 than in 2007 at $240 billion. Forrester projections stand at $334.7 billion. Jupiter research has however made a conservative estimate of $215 billion.

Health expenses in US are increasing exponentially to reach 20 percent of all expenses made by 2018. That is, health expenses would constitute $1 out of every $5 spent in US by 2018. To reduce costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to cut down costs and save money by providing online prescriptions. If this [...]

Advertisers have observed that television has become less effective than it was two years ago as a medium for advertisements. The focus is hence shifting towards new media including online ads. Here are a few snippets: 62% advertisers feel TV is no more effective as before 65% are eager to advertise in Online TV shows [...]

The top 3 social networks in UK as per the latest count by Nielson are 1. Facebook 2. MySpace 3. Bebo All three social networks experienced falling numbers in January 2008 compared to December 2007. While Bebo fell 2% to garner 4.1 million unique users, MySpace fell 5% and had 5 million unique users visit [...]

The top European countries with high online buyer penetration are Denmark – 55% Holland – 55% Sweden – 53% UK – 53% Germany – 52% Finland – 48% France – 35%