What’s the most preferred method for internet users to pay their bills online? No surprises for guessing credit cards. Here is the ranking of the most preferred means 1. Credit cards 2. Debit cards 3. Email payments 4. Prepaid cards 5. Private label cards 6. Bill me later

Here is the worldwide mobile phone penetration (as a percent of population) projected up to 2014: 2006 : 30% 2007 : 34% 2008 : 39% 2009 : 42% 2010 : 45% 2011 : 47% 2012 : 49% 2013 : 51% 2014 : 53%

Mobile social networking revenue in 2008 : $1.1 billion Projected revenues from mobile social networking in 2013 : $7.3 billion Active users of mobile social networks in 2008 : 54 million Projected active users of mobile social networking in 2013 : 730 million Indian subcontinent to grow as the largest consumer of mobile dating

Over 300 million iPhone apps have been downloaded in the last three months. Here is the number of apps been downloaded by the iPhone users in the past three months: Oct 21 : 200 million Dec 5 : 300 million Jan 20 : 500 million There are over 15,000 iPhone apps available on the Apple [...]

Google launched Gmail four years back, and they continue to be the fourth largest email provider. However, they have had the fastest growth rate in 2008 compared to its larger counterparts. Here is the list of top four email service providers along with the growth rate in the past year: 1. Yahoo (11%) 2. AOL [...]

At what rate is the Internet growing? According to a Chinese research, the internet doubles in size every 5.32 years.The study was conducted retrospectively from December 2001 to December 2006, with the sample taken every six months. A study by Netcraft suggests a figure that too is close to the number provided by this research.

Over the past one year, Microsoft has brought to market over 30 different mobile phones with the Windows Mobile platform. Overall there are more than 11 mobile phone models that have sold a million units each. The total number of mobile phones sold with the Windows Mobile platform is around 20 million units.

Annual growth rates for advertisement spending on search engines will decline over the next few years. Here is a projection of the annual growth rates: 2007 : 29.5% 2008 : 21.4% 2009 : 14.9% 2010 : 13% 2011 : 12.1% 2012 : 13.7% 2013 : 10.4%

I do not have the numbers for all the top networks worldwide, but here are some numbers to chew: Telefónica O2 (UK) : 166 million Telia (Sweden) : 24 million Tele2 (Sweden) : 28.4 million Vodafone (Netherlands) : 22 million T-Mobile (Netherlands) : 19 million Orange (France) : 66 million SFR (France) : 18.1 million [...]

Multimedia messaging is getting popular, slowly but steadily all over the world. Here is the percent increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers in EU-5 who have adopted to the MMS culture: France : 15.2% UK : 10.8% Germany : 8.1% Spain : 7.8% Italy : 5% Cumulative : 9.2%