For 17 years, Digital Tsunami has hosted the websites (and email) of clients on five continents, in data centres across the globe. With the duplication of international backbones, the geographic location of a data centre is not as critical as it once was. For instance, in 1999, to maximise performance for the domestic and international markets of Heineken China, we had to …Read More…
Sydney Energy Electrical Services supplies environmentally sensitive products and energy-saving services to the greater Sydney region. In advance of the launch of a new responsive website at SydneyEnergy.com.au, the company has launched a ‘placeholder page’ with a countdown to launch date. For over seven years, the professional expertise of Sydney Energy personnel has enabled businesses and home-owners to …Read More…
You don’t make a billion dollar investment, without taking measures to protect it! Just days after Twitter‘s video platform Vine, attained more linked tweets in a day than Instagram, Facebook has moved to recapture video market share with the launch of 15 second videos on Instagram. This was clearly a well-planned initiative. That Video on Instagram was …Read More…
Over the 12 months to 2013, time spent watching video on mobile devices has doubled. In the first 3 months of 2013, the market share of video viewed on handheld devices grew by 19 percent. In a 24 hour period on 7 June, tweets with links to Vine, exceeded those to Instagram. Within 2 weeks, …Read More…
More people on the Internet are communicating via social media than ever before, and Facebook is the most popular platform. In the first quarter of 2013, over half the world’s Internet connected population is using Facebook! Using data collated by Global Web Index, Statista has just released a chart of the world’s ten largest social media sites by …Read More…
A report on the average national consumer download speeds has been released by netindex.com. Ranking 182 countries around the globe reveals results which some may find surprising. At the same time, a recognised global brand has announced a new Japanese service with the world’s fastest download speed – 2 gigabytes per second (Gbps)! Based on …Read More…
It is 40 years since the advent of the mobile phone, an invention which has changed business and human society. I was fortunate to have met the first person in the world to make a call from a cellular phone. In an act as historic as Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call, made on March …Read More…
The growth rate of mobile Internet access has exceeded that of initial Internet growth. Statista has just released a chart to demonstrate this comparison. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) figures for global internet traffic between 1997 and 2003, show a 127% annual increase. Mobile IP traffic however, has now reached an annual growth rate of 146%. Mobile traffic in …Read More…
An infographic on the rapidly increasing use of a ‘second screen’ while watching television. For more graphical information, search our recent infographic blogs or visit our Pinterest board. Source: confused.com
Nielsen has just released a report “The Mobile Consumer. A Global Snapshot, February 2013” The research covers 9 countries across 5 continents: Australia, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States. Interesting data reveals world leadership by the rapidly developing BRIC countries: In Brazil, 75% of the respondents use their mobiles for social networking, …Read More…
