Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is still the big dog at the top of the hill and a recent release from the company gave some insight about just how powerful the service still is among users. According to the release, S3 now stores over 905 billion objects. All told, those stored objects get accessed fairly [...]
April 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
What do you do when you are struggling tech and media company that can’t seem to make enough money in your core business? Why you create a veritable digital garage sale of course, and this is exactly what AOL has done with some of its patents—800 to be exact. The once giant of Silicon Valley [...]
April 24th, 2012 by Anthony West
The internet is growing at such an alarming rate that one wonders what the landscape or should I say ‘internet-scape’ is going to be like in the coming future. There’s lots of talk about the net being more of ‘who’ we are—scary stuff when you think about it, but that seems to be where things [...]
April 24th, 2012 by Anthony West
A recent research by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project suggests that Americans are starting to read eBooks more. 1 in 5 of those surveyed answered ‘yes’ to their readership of eBooks and although this figure doesn’t reveal much about the uptake in reading of regular books, it is promising numbers for the [...]
April 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
Before Dropbox became a household name, Amazon was ruling the cloud storage space with its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for many years; in fact, Amazon S3 is still one of the biggest players in the cloud storage space and has the numbers to prove it. The company’s latest data on the growth and performance [...]
April 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
WiFi networks have become ubiquitous in business and other organizational-type setups but that ubiquity has now started to spread to homes. A new look at the adoption of WiFi in American homes sought to put things into perspective. The study was conducted by Strategy Analytics, and puts the US pretty much in the pack of [...]
April 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
There has been lots of talk lately about the dominance of WordPress and the emergence of Tumblr, that few people have given Joomla a look-in. But Joomla is very much alive; so much so that it now counts over 30 million downloads. The platform as you may know is an open-source content management system (CMS) [...]
April 20th, 2012 by Anthony West
It looks like Apple Inc. gets to have its cake and eat it too—at least for now. The latest iPad as you know is out and so far the reception and satisfaction has been nothing less than extraordinary. A new survey from research company, ChangeWave, has revealed that 98% of the people who bought the [...]
April 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
There was a time when kids relied heavily on their parents for information. “What’s the tallest mountain in the world, dad?” Parents like me used to take pride in giving the answer. But now all that is changing; children are turning more and more to search engines (Google specifically) for information. Indeed the term ‘Google [...]
April 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
How safe is your credit card? Well let’s just say it’s only safe if it’s not one of the 1.5 million credit card numbers that may be in the hands of hackers. A recent hacking attack on payment processor Global Payments may have compromised over 1.5 million numbers. The breach is so severe that the [...]
April 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
Tablet sales are booming and so too are the retail sales that the millions of tablet owners are generating. A recent survey by Milo.com expounded on the numbers and the phenomenon behind the surge in tablet sales and subsequent use. According to the study there are over 54.8 million tablet users in the US alone. [...]
April 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
You probably don’t need a fancy infographic or an extensive study to prove the existence of spam—heaven knows all our inboxes are solid proof of that. But just in case you wanted to get into the scale of email spam these days, the fine folks over at Neolane.com has crunched a few numbers—just or our [...]
April 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Americans love to search, so much so that since 2008 the overall US search market has grown 68%. Capitalizing on that is of course Google, the world’s most popular search engine. A recent look into the numbers by online number-cruncher Statista offered some interesting facts about the growth of search and the players who would [...]
April 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
It looks like Email isn’t dead after all. A new survey conducted by Ipsos found that not only is email well and truly alive, it is still the reason most adults (at least) go onto the web. Ipsos questioned 19,216 adults in 24 countries for the study and found that 85% of all adults who [...]
April 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
Who doesn’t love the PDF document format; it is one of the most dynamic and flexible ways to share documents and provides a raft of features that make our digital lives that much easy to bundle and send to our friends and colleagues on the other side of the digital divide. A little study conducted [...]
April 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
If you are a SiteTrail reader, we are pretty confident that SEO is something you have at least a passing knowledge of—after all, most SiteTrail readers are up to speed like that. Not so for 80% of Americans though. A survey taken by Matt Cutts of Google recently, tried to gauge the amount of knowledge [...]
April 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple is now officially the world’s biggest company and this of course gives it certain luxuries—like a $10 billion share buyback and plans to spend another $45 billion in the next 3 years. The news came last week as Apple announced via an earnings call by new CEO, Tim Cook. Shareholders will also benefit because [...]
April 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
If there was any doubt about just how well the new iPad would do among Apple’s raving fans, then all doubt has been erased. In the first 72 hours of launch, Apple sold a record breaking 3 million iPads. That’s a lot—especially given the hefty price tags attached to the popular tablet. Proof positive then [...]
April 4th, 2012 by Anthony West
