Tag: Internet
Google Project Loon brings Internet access to remote areas via balloon
Google has just announced Project Loon, an initiative from Google X Labs to bring affordable Internet access to remote places by means of giant balloons. Project Loon involves flying large helium balloons made of polyethelene film, measuring around 15 meters in diameter. These balloons are sent to high altitudes of around 20 kilometers above the [...]
US will continue to dominate internet traffic in 2017
Every year Cisco publishes their report on online traffic and data usage and this year’s report show some interesting information. Cisco estimates that over 1.4 zetabytes of data will be transferred globally by 2017. To give you a perspective on how big the figure is, 1.4 zetabyte is equivalent to over 1 billion DVDs played [...]
Fourteen Online Companies Join The Internet Association
What do Facebook, Google, IAC, eBay, AOL, LinkedIn, Rackspace, Yahoo, Zynga, TripAdvisor, and Salesforce have in common? Apart from the fact that they are all big online companies, these fourteen firms have joined a newly-formed group called The Internet Association. According to its official website, the simple but succinctly-named organization is “dedicated to advancing public [...]
Smartphones Cutting Into Laptops Internet Market Share
A new study has been released with some astonishing, well maybe not so surprising results. According to a new study actually put on by Google, more consumers are accessing the internet from a smartphone as their primary device. Although we knew it was coming, we weren’t expecting smartphones to surpass internet access via desktop and [...]
24 Billion Connected Devices By 2020
As time goes on we see more and more of the future coming into the present. Yesterday we had a call with the CEO of Soasta on cloud based testing. During the call and their presentation for their new cloud based testing offerings Soasta CEO Tom Lounibos brought up the fact that the interactive displays [...]
Google’s Digital Archaelogy Exhibit At IWNY Headquarters
This week the internet converged on New York City as Internet Week New York took over. Internet Week New York is a great city wide event that focuses on technology and the internet. Their PR firm though, PKPR have no grip on social media in fact their twitter account has less than 100 followers while [...]
8% Of Americans Using Twitter
A study by Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project showed that 8% of Americans are using the microblogging service Twitter. Twitter is no secret to TheDroidGuy actually started out souly as a Twitter user. The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project is a research project that is analyzing the way American’s [...]
There will be NO Facebook phone…Zuckerberg’s final answer
If the motion picture “The Social Network” were 100% true than Mark Zuckerberg has grown up a lot since college in that he gives great answers like the one in the headline and then qualifies them with a complete explanation. From last week when Facebook sent the invites out for their “mobile” event yesterday, until [...]
