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Cross border Internet traffic slows – Asia and Latin America fastest
Digital Media Asia relays a report that cross border internet traffic actually slowed in 2005. The fastest areas of growth were Asia and Latin America. As the world’s web activity continues apace – the only conclusion is that more web … Read More
Promising India as internet population exceeds 26 million
India’s population is exceeding 1 billion out of which Internet Users are nearly 26 million. More than 50% of the users are between age group 20-40.. With the recent reduction in cost and easier availability of Broadband (min 256 kbps) … Read More
Portugal's broadband penetration–low, but catching light
You don’t hear much news about the Portuguese internet arena. But of course they’re not just busy putting out fires. Here’s a brief news insight out of Portugal. During the first quarter this year, broadband connections reached 9.2% in comparison … Read More
Warning: Mass local language inbound links can damage your health
Google on their web site say there is almost nothing you can do to harm a website through the building of links from external sites. I unfortunately came across the reason they say almost recently. To a major extent they … Read More
All Hispanic ad network launches
The launching of Hispanico Click marks the first all Latin/Hispanic advertsing network. They allow demographics to separate the various Hispanic subgroups which will improve advertisers CPA and prove profitable for all. As their copy states “If you campaign goal is … Read More
New Version of Internet Explorer to be released in September
During the Recent Windows Developer Conference, Microsoft announced the release of Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Operating Systems Windows XP/2003 and the upcoming Vista, planned for release during 2006. The release will be accompanied by a slight change in the … Read More
Chile’s .cl Domains are About to Internationalize
This Tuesday Chile was home to some very exciting news for web globalisation. According to Christian Nicolai, Subsecretary of Consejo Nacional de Nombres y Números IP (The National Controlling Body for Names and IP Numbers) and the Director of NIC … Read More
AOL targeting Latino Market
Seems AOL is joining the popular push to attract more Latin traffic. They have announced a new TV and radio campaign whose goal is to draw more Latinos to AOL. The Spanish speaking market seems to very popular right now.
Internet Behavior from virtually every angle—Findings from Chile
Interesting news to take note of out of Chile: Looks like the penetration of internet usage in the country is somewhat stuck at 36%, only one point up from data collected in 2003. But it’s nothing to get sunken up … Read More
Slovak broadband connections mushroom
How does a 527-percent growth sound? Surreal. But true. Last year Slovakia had 8,275 broadband internet connections and now, they’re looking at 51,869. With that number, coming to a 1% penetration of the entire population, they are clearly far behind … Read More
Google buys Brazilian tech company
Google announced it purchased Akwan Information Technologies, a Brazilian search company. Google plans on establishing a Research and Development division there and to use it as a base to spearhead their Latin American efforts.
Canada May Outlaw Google
Interesting article about the impact of new laws in Canada. Search engines in Canada will have to be very aware of copyright laws, though the international nature of the web may make it hard to enforce. The only possibility is … Read More
Italian ICTLex wins Freedom blog awards 2005
The European section of Reporters sans frontièreshas chosen the Italian blog www.ictlex.net as one of the most active Blogs defending freedom of speech. Ictlex.net was identified as the best blog in Europe, and one of the top 60 blogs worldwide. … Read More
Seekport nominates Elena Bonini Head of Index
Seekport Tecnologie, the new pan European Search Engine has nominated Elena Bovini Head of Index for Italian activities launched this past Tuesday. Elena is responsible for the quality of results provided by seekport.it and is based in Milano. She will … Read More
