Here are some interesting statistics on the internet usage in France: Internet Penetration : 52% Number of households with Internet connection : 13.5 million (15% increase from last year) Percent Internet Users with High speed connectivity : 93%

In absolute numbers, India ranks fourth in the world when it comes to the number of Internet users. But in penetration terms, Indians lag way behind others at 5.2%. Here is the internet penetration of countries ranked in terms of the number of internet users 1. USA : 71.9% 2. China : 15.8% 3. Japan [...]

As in the internet world, Google is the leader of search in the mobile world as well. Google’s share of mobile search : 61% Yahoo’s share of mobile search : 18% Number of searches per month on Google : 9 per user Number of searches per month on Yahoo : 7 per user

Brazil has 140 million subscribers which is expected to grow to 176 million by 2012. The most popular activities on mobile among Brazilians are: Send and Receive calls – 77% Send and Receive SMS – 51% Send and Receive photos – 15% Access music, videos, ringtones – 11% Access internet – 5% Others – 1%

More than half of the French Internet audience (54%) had visited a social network in the last two months. And the leader of the social network pack is neither MySpace nor Facebook! Here is the list of the top social networks in France: 1. Skyrock network 2. Facebook 3. MySpace 4. Tromibi.com 5. Hi5 6. [...]

There has been a spurt in the number of Phishing messages sent in the past few months. The second half of 2007 saw a 5 percent increase in the number of phishing messages sent across the internet. The total number of phishing messages traced in this time was 207,547. This is equal to 1134 messages [...]

Download Day 2008 is a marketing initiative by Mozilla to set a world record downloads of Firefox 3 when it is launched this year. People who pledge to help Mozilla set the record would be intimated through email before the launch date.