WebLaunches New Media Launch Strategy

21 million Canadians viewed more than 3.1 billion videos online during the month. The average Canadian online video viewer spent 10 hours viewing videos in February, up 53 percent from their average viewing time last year.

A new national study released today at International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada by CTIA The Wireless Association in conjunction with Harris Interactive, finds that almost half, 45 percent, of business decision makers state that wireless applications are important or absolutely essential to remaining competitive in today’s highly competitive marketplace.
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‘Time Spent’ on These Sites Growing Three Times Faster than Overall Internet Rate, Now Accounting for Almost 10 Percent of all Internet Time

Now visited by over two-thirds (67 percent) of the global* online population, “Member Communities,” which includes both social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular online category – ahead of [...]

Table 1: Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions for February 2009 (U.S., Home and Work)

Parent

Unique Audience (000)

Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)

1. Google

133,983

2:00:55

2. Microsoft

125,692

2:28:15

3. Yahoo!

114,130

3:27:19

4. AOL LLC

83,083

3:45:59

5. News Corp. Online

77,569

1:21:13

6. Facebook

65,704

2:59:54

7. InterActiveCorp

65,693

0:16:17

8. eBay

63,066

1:51:13

9. Amazon

59,389

0:24:33

10. Wikimedia Foundation

57,910

0:17:10

Source: Nielsen Online
Example: The data indicates that 57.9 million home and work Internet users visited at least one of the Wikimedia Foundation-owned sites or [...]

Today at Microsoft Research TechFest 2009, visitors immersed themselves in technologies that promise to change the way people interact with computers, take advantage of new computing power from manycore processors and make datacenters far more energy-efficient. The technologies were being shown as part of TechFest, the research lab’s ninth annual innovation fair that draws [...]

The Nielsen Company reported that viewing of video on television, Internet and mobile devices – the Three Screens – continues to increase and has reached new heights. In its fourth quarter “A2/M2 Three Screen Report”, Nielsen reported that the average American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high. Meanwhile, [...]

PhotoShelter, the leader in portfolio display, e-commerce and archiving tools for photographers, today released Photographer Websites: What Buyers Want Now, a free research report detailing the results of a recent survey of 550+ [...]

Giving voice to an extraordinary effort to inspire peace through music and to connect diverse musicians worldwide, including those in conflict regions, Hear Music today announced the April 28 release of Playing For [...]

comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In January 2009, Americans conducted 13.5 billion core searches, a 7-percent gain versus December 2008.
January 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings
Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in December with 63.0 [...]

QuickPlay Media, the premier provider of mobile TV and video solutions, today revealed the results of an independent Market Tools survey focused on mobile TV and video consumption in the UK. On a [...]

Industry leaders call for governments to focus on mobile broadband stimulus
At the GSMA’s Leadership Summit, bringing together 400 CEOs, government ministers and officials, industry leaders today stressed the unique role that broadband, specifically mobile broadband, can play as an economic stimulus. Those leaders called for governments to support the rollout of mobile broadband [...]

Nielsen survey of over 50,000 consumers reveals mobile operators’ issues and opportunities
Mobile World Congress (MWC) — The first major survey of European and U.S. mobile users conducted during the economic slump gives the telecom industry reasons to be optimistic. Consumers intend to dramatically increase use of mobile data services over the next two [...]