China becomes world's largest Internet population

Reuters reports

China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest Internet-using population, reaching 221 million by the end of February, state media said on Thursday.

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JupiterResearch Reports Over One Fifth of the World’s Population Will Be Online By 2011

JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business, has found the worldwide online population will increase from 1.1 billion users in 2006 to 1.5 billion in 2011, representing 22 percent of the overall worldwide population in that year. Outlined in a new report “Worldwide Online Population Forecast, 2006 to 2011: Emerging Economies Catalyze Future Growth,” Brazil, Russia, India, and China will provide impetus for future growth of the online population.

via BW

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Internet ad revenue up 35% to $17 billion

SFgate reports

Internet advertising revenue, fueled by increases in classified ads, lead generation and display advertising, grew by 35 percent last year to $16.9 billion.

In the fourth quarter alone, $4.8 billion was spent on online advertising, a 33 percent increase over the same quarter a year earlier and the most for any quarter, according to a report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

More advertisers are flocking to Internet and this trend proves that big advertisers are recognizing Internet as another mainstream media to reach their target customers. Internet offers some unique advantages like specific marketing, intent marketing which is not available with the traditional media. More advertisers means a bigger pie to share among the internet publishers.

Internet Usage Statistics

Asia is leading with 35.8% of World's Internet usage.

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Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

Myway reports

A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records - twice in two days.

Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps.

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