Facebook more popular than porn?

London: According to Experian Hitwise, an Internet research company, social networking sites has become more popular than pornographic or adult websites. The company which provided the latest statistics for the year showed that social networking sites like facebook was now the most popular and preferred destination for the Brits.This is the first time that social networking sites have overtaken entertainment in terms of popularity.
Facebook more popular than porn?


Facebook accounted to about 12.46 percent of the online traffic and was in a neck to neck competition with entertainment sites including pornographic sites which accounted about 12.18 percent of the traffic. The amount of viewers was about one eighth of all web visits.

With Internet getting better and better each day, social networking sites are jotting strategies to get more and more users. There is a sheer competition among themselves which actually ends up with users having multiple accounts in different social networks. It is estimated that every one in eight people leave a social network to join another one immediately.

India has been a major contributor for social networks. Dazeinfo, a social media news portal has tried to draw a brief demography on socialization of Facebook in India. Indian population on Facebook is approximately 22.24 Million. In 2010, there were 16 new users from India who joined Facebook every minute. Every forth Internet user in India has got an account on Facebook. The Searches for porn in India over the internet have dropped to a mere 10 percent of all queries, compared to 20 percent ten years ago.

Social Networking sites play a vital role for users as it is not only a medium to get connected and stay connected with your friends. It has become a medium to know what is happening around you. Twitter is known to give breaking news and the latest update on any current crisis. Users keep social networking sites as an open tab on their browsers even at work to know the latest news and to network the news to their friends.

ITU: Two billion people online by 2010, publishes stats on digital divide

According to stats published today by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union), 400 million new internet users were added in 2009, taking total tally of internet users worldwide to a special milestone - two billion. If that sounds cheerful, wait till you read the rest of the report, which outlines the digital divide.


Asia, Africa, and the Arab states have less than 25% of their citizens online. That’s because it costs nearly 6-7 times more to afford fixed broadband in terms of purchasing power parity in USD. Mobile services however, are cheaper in developing countries, with an average monthly cost of 15 PPP$ in developing countries compared to around 18 PPP$ in developed countries.

Highlights from the report:
162 million of the 226 million new Internet users in 2010 will be from developing countries.
65% of Europeans are on the Internet, compared to only 9.6% of Africans.
71% of the population in developed countries will be online compared to 21% of the population in developing countries.
In developed countries 65% of people have access to the Internet at home, compared to 13.5% of people in developing countries.
Fixed broadband penetration levels in developing countries remain low: 4.4 subscriptions per 100 people compared to 24.6 in developed countries.
Subscriptions to IMT2000/3G services have increased from 72 million in 2005 to 940 million in 2010.As many as 143 countries are offering IMT2000/3G services commercially, up from 95 countries in 2007.The number of SMSes sent in 2010: 6.1 trillion. In other words, close to 200 000 text messages are sent every

New Nokia C3

Nokia C3 is designed to serve the social networking needs of the present day’s customers. It features the complete QWERTY keyboard that allows the users to send messages and email at rapid pace. You can
customize the home screen by using personalized themes, widgets and shortcuts. It offers useful applications for enhanced communication like Nokia Messaging Service 3.0 for Email, Chat and Communities. It features a 2 Megapixel camera that comes with Full screen viewfinder,
Self timer and also various effects like grayscale, sepia and negative.

Nokia C3 offers support for video downloading and streaming. With Nokia Ovi Player, user can get access to thousands of refreshing songs to upbeat your mood. The presence of Nokia BL-5J 1320 mAh Li-Ion battery provides 8 hours of talk time and up to 500 hours of Standby Time. User can enjoy smooth connectivity features by using wide range of tools such as GPRS, EDGE, USB, Bluetooth and WLAN. Users can also get entertained by playing in built games like Sudoku, Block’d, Bounce, and Diamond Rush.

It's all about latest technology.: Dell Inspiron Duo – Netbook and Tablet PC in One

It's all about latest technology.: Dell Inspiron Duo – Netbook and Tablet PC in One: "Dell is really unstoppable in creating such powerful and high tech gadgets. I’ve just posted one of their latest released laptop which is ..."

Dell Inspiron Duo – Netbook and Tablet PC in One

Dell is really unstoppable in creating such powerful and high tech gadgets. I’ve just posted one of their latest released laptop which is Inspiron M501R and today they have announced once again a new technology called Dell Inspiron Duo, which can be use as a Netbook at the same time a tablet PC. It has a 10 inches swivel touchscreen display that can be rotated 180 degrees backwards to form a Tablet PC. It is equipped with a Dual Core Intel Atom N550 processor, 2GB of DDR3 memory, and comes pre-installed with Windows 7. This convertible netbook will be available this year, but its price is still unknown.

Colorware iPad Grip

The iPad could come in useful for a whole lot of different people, but if you have clumsy tendencies it could be disastrous to own one. With those sleek designs it could easily slip through your fingers and come crashing to the ground. In order to keep the iPad in one piece you could always pick up a Colorware iPad Grip. It’ll give you something that’s much easier to hold.

The handle comes for iPads that have been put through the Colorware process or ones that are just fresh off of the Apple assembly line. It will require a minor amount of assembly on your part, but it all only requires pretty minimal tools. Much like all Colorware items, this comes as plain or as bright as you want it. To get yourself one it’ll just cost you $300, but you already spent quite a bit of cash on that shiny new iPad. What’s a few hundred more?! You don’t need to pay rent, just tell that landlord to wait until next month.

BitTorrent app for iPhone actually approved by Apple

When you hear of BitTorrent, we all know the first thing that comes to your mind -- Downloads. We also know the first thing that comes to company's minds -- Piracy, and the inevitable loss of profit.

So when news came that a bittorrent app called IS Drive has appeared in the Apple App Store (where you basically buy all those applications for your iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad), it caught us by surprise. We all know that not too long ago, Apple clearly has this principle of refusing the approval bittorrent applications and the like as they clearly promote piracy and other illegal internet activity.BitTorrent is a file-sharing protocol that allows users to use their dedicated bandwidth to seed file to many, and we mean many, users. Initially, it is mostly connected to illegal activity for sharing licensed content but now, it's also being used for legit services like those of ImageShack and in the recent months, Mininova (now only posting legal content).

It is quite obvious as to why Apple chooses to block these kinds of applications as it will undermine it's iTunes business, so what are the possible reasons for this recent act? First, Apple has faced a lot of criticism in terms of their store approval guidelines and security and thus, loosened up their guidelines a little bit.
Another reason is that the IS Drive approval may have been a possible slip-up on Apple's part as they may not have realized that it's a BitTorrent client. An IS Drive developer told in a statement with TorrentFreak: I always had the thought that if I didn’t call the app a ‘torrent client,’ Apple would probably let it through the review process.”The IS Drive sells at $4.99 in the Apple App store and the ImageShack service bundle comes with a monthly or daily fee.