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Facebook Nation Now Counts 150M, and Going Strong

Jan 7, 2009 1:43 PM CST

Facebook Nation Now Counts 150M, and Going Strong

Growth outside US could put networking site at 200M by spring

(Newser) - John McCain and the iPhone may be so 2008, but Facebook is going strong. The networking site now claims 150 million users, just four months after surpassing 100 million. At this rate, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will have a delightful 25th-birthday gift this spring: 200 million users. Most new members live...

Comcast to Put Brakes on Bandwidth Hogs

Aug 21, 2008 9:41 AM CDT

Comcast to Put Brakes on Bandwidth Hogs

ISP decides to slow down users rather than P2P programs after FCC scolding

(Newser) - Comcast plans to reduce Internet connection speeds for heavy users, Bloomberg reports. The company's "FairShare" system will slow users down for 10 to 20 minutes during peak periods. Comcast was recently scolded by the FCC for improperly blocking file-sharing programs like BitTorrent in an effort to manage Web traffic.

Even in Tight Election, Media Struggle to Retain Audience

Aug 4, 2008 9:30 AM CDT

Even in Tight Election, Media Struggle to Retain Audience

Choosier consumers, Internet video hurt

(Newser) - Even as the 2008 election attracts more voter interest than it has in decades, media efforts to translate that into financial success have had mixed results, reports the New York Times. While cable news has enjoyed an uptick—and websites are setting record for online video—viewership for mainstream news...

Web Demands Could Cause Gridlock by 2011

Mar 13, 2008 1:54 PM CDT

Web Demands Could Cause Gridlock by 2011

High-grade apps could slow Internet to crawl, watchers say

(Newser) - The Internet's growing data richness could lead to major web traffic jams within a few years. Some research predicts that user demands—with the high-bandwidth needs of video clips, social networks, and online games—could top network capacity in short order. YouTube alone used more bandwidth in 2007 than the...

EU May Name Censorship a Trade Barrier

Feb 28, 2008 2:33 PM CST

EU May Name Censorship a Trade Barrier

Measure takes aim at the 'Great Firewall of China'; would inject web into trade talks

(Newser) - The EU is out to hack down the Great Firewall of China, Ars Technica reports. A new proposal would classify the web censorship China and other oppressive regimes employ as a trade barrier, an approach its creator calls “unusual, but effective.” The measure already sailed through the European...

Species Site Overwhelmed by Traffic on Opening Day

Feb 27, 2008 3:15 PM CST

Species Site Overwhelmed by Traffic on Opening Day

Encyclopedia of Life will eventually describe all 1.8M species on Earth

(Newser) - A much-anticipated web encyclopedia of all Earth’s life forms crashed hours after its launch yesterday, inundated by traffic. The Encyclopedia of Life had 11.5 million hits in its first 5½ hours—including 2 hours down—leading the site’s founders to ask their opposites at Wikipedia for bandwidth...

Google Not Clicking with Investors

Feb 27, 2008 7:12 AM CST

Google Not Clicking with Investors

Share price continues slide as advertising views flatline in January

(Newser) - Google, flying high in November when its stock hit a record $747.24, is falling back to Earth as investors worry that the slowing economy is discouraging web surfers from clicking on the search giant’s ads, reports the Wall Street Journal. A comScore report yesterday said Google’s January...

Mideast Web Woes Persist as 3rd Cable Is Cut

Feb 1, 2008 1:18 PM CST

Mideast Web Woes Persist as 3rd Cable Is Cut

Repairs could take days or even weeks

(Newser) - A third cable carrying Internet traffic to the Mideast was cut today off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, and web and phone service remained disrupted in large areas of the Mideast and India because of breaks in two cables in the Mediterranean Wednesday. The cables severed earlier carried as...

eBay Slashes Listing Fee in Half

Jan 29, 2008 1:33 PM CST

eBay Slashes Listing Fee in Half

Company hopes to drive growth with new policies

(Newser) - eBay is chopping its listing fee in half and will take a bigger chunk out of the price of sold items, a change that should lower risk for sellers and encourage more listing, the AP reports. The online auction giant is also changing the way its search results work, the...

Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

Jan 14, 2008 2:52 PM CST

Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

Portal eyes overhaul to preserve slipping top-dog status

(Newser) - With Google, Facebook, and MySpace gnawing at its top-dog status, Yahoo is reinventing some foundation applications to make them appeal to a new generation of users, reports the New York Times. First step? Turbocharging Yahoo Mail to make it more a communications hub and less a post office, a prototype...

Top 10 Startups to Watch In 2008

Dec 25, 2007 6:46 AM CST

Top 10 Startups to Watch In 2008

From a DNA decoder to mini-Googles

(Newser) - A web startup that checks your DNA for predisposition to a spectrum of disease - and finds you a date (23andMe); a GPS system that can thread its way around traffic (Dash); A P2P download service that may revolutionize online video (BitTorrent); social networking designed for the workplace (LinkedIn);...

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

Dec 24, 2007 9:47 AM CST

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

NBC hopes made-for-web show can defy so-so traffic numbers

(Newser) - YouTube buzz is tough to manufacture, and so far NBC’s “Quarterlife,” the network's experiment in TV-quality production for the web, hasn’t managed. The last dozen episodes have each drawn around 100,000 views between MySpace and YouTube combined, which isn’t many eyeballs in the TV...

Canadian ISP Messes With Web Pages

Dec 11, 2007 12:27 PM CST

Canadian ISP Messes With Web Pages

Net neutrality's biggest boogeyman gets a test drive

(Newser) - Imagine for a second that your Internet provider could alter any webpage you viewed – injecting advertisements, or even censoring information. That scary scenario is possible, Ars Technica says, and the technology is already being test-driven by Rogers, a Canadian cable giant. Right now, the messages are just service notifications,...

Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

Nov 25, 2007 3:39 PM CST

Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

Lambaste industry group behind study predicting failures

(Newser) - Ominous warnings earlier this week of a looming Internet disaster are highly misleading, suggest critics. "As we've stated previously, most warnings of capacity armageddon come from traffic shaping companies looking to sell hardware," the industry web site Broadband Reports writes about a recent Nemertes Research study, which was...

Doubts Arise About Web Traffic Tracking

Oct 22, 2007 12:42 PM CDT

Doubts Arise About Web Traffic Tracking

Huge gaps in audience estimates are stunting advertising growth

(Newser) - If you think the internet makes tracking audience numbers any easier, think again. Media companies sometimes report millions more online visitors to their sites than tracking companies like Nielsen—because they use different measurements—and the gap makes online advertisers queasy. It's preventing the industry from growing as quickly as...

Is It a Top?

Jun 26, 2007 7:01 AM CDT

Is It a Top?

Domain name SEO.com sells for $5 million, raising the specter of a virtual real estate bubble

(Newser) - WashingtonVC has purchased the domain name SEO.com (as in "search engine marketing") for $5 million for its portfolio company Web Targeted. With a large percentage of Web traffic now coming from search engines, optimizing Web sites for visibility to them has become one of the hottest...