More and more households are dumping their landlines for only mobile phones. This was observed to be the highest in the Midwest and South USA. Here are the top five American states with the greatest incidence of mobile only households (in percent terms) 1. Oklahoma : 26.2% 2. Utah : 25.5% 3. Nebraska : 23.2% [...]

URL shortening services are essentially websites that provide you with a smaller URL that you may substitute for long URLs that are difficult to be passed in any email or other documents. Here is the market share of the various URL shortening services: tinyurl.com : 75.49% bit.ly : 13.02% ff.im : 4.87% is.gd : 4.36% [...]

Facebook videos are not as popular as Youtube, but the numbers are staggering and growing real fast. Many of them are home videos and shot with webcams! Number of video uploads on Facebook : 260000 per day Number of video uploads via webcam : 155000 per day (40%) High quality videos on Facebook : 25% [...]

The fourth quarter of 2008 had 8 percent lesser ad spending on digital newspaper as compared to the ad spending in the fourth quarter of 2007. Online Newspaper ad spending in Q4 2007 : $846 million Online Newspaper ad spending in Q4 2008 : $778 million Total ad spending on online newspapers in 2008 was [...]

Singapore internet users spend more than 50 percent of their online time on social and entertainment websites. Here is a list of the most popular website categories among Singpore Internet users in terms of time spent: 1. Instant Messengers 2. Entertainment 3. Social Networks 4. Email 5. Online Gaming 6. Search/Navigation 7. Blogs 8. Business [...]

Admob reports that the smartphone market share has grown from 26 percent to 33 percent. Here are the top five smartphones globally: 1. iPhone 2. Nokia N70 3. Blackberry 8300 4. Nokia N80 5. Nokia N73 For the US market, the statistics are slightly different: 1. iPhone 2. Blackberry Curve 3. Blackberry Pearl 4. Palm [...]

Skype is now the largest long distance phone company. Cross-border telephone traffic grew 12% in 2008. Worldwide Cross border traffic in minutes : 384 billion Skype Cross border traffic in minutes : 33 billion (41% growth)

Mobile broadband which comprises of 3G technologies like W-CDMA, HSPA, CDMA 2000 and EVDO is on the rise to popularity and the number of connections is bound to rise multifolds over the next half a decade. Number of mobile broadband at the end of 2008 : 210.5 million Revenues from mobile broadband in 2008 : [...]

No surprise, but a recent research has just confirmed that the sale of music CDs is on the drop while the sale of digital music is on the rise in USA. Digital Downloads Number of digital downloads in 2008 : 36 million Increase of 8 million over 2007 (29%) Music CD Sales Drop in Number [...]

People are logging on to the mobile internet more frequently now than ever before. Here is the number of people logging on to the internet through their mobile phones in January 2009 and the percent change in this number since January 2008 in brackets. Daily : 22.36 million (107%) Weekly : 19.28 million (87%) Monthly [...]