Even with a decrease in online shopper satisfaction on Cyber Monday year-over-year, customer satisfaction with retail Web sites has remained steady ever since, according to ForeSee Results’ weekly holiday benchmark.
U.S. Broadband Speeds Remain Sluggish
Internet connection speeds in the U.S. have only become slightly faster in the past year gaining just four-tenths of one megabit per second according to a new report from the Communication Workers of America (CWA).
Global PC Shipments Remain Solid
Global PC shipments grew by 14.6 percent to 69.5 million units in the first quarter of 2008, which beat previous estimates of 13.2 percent according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.The U.S. market showed signs of the economic slowdown, but growth remained positive at 3.5 percent for the quarter. The other international markets compensated for the U.S. coming in more than 2 points above estimates due to continued strength in developing countries.
Court: Blogspot Blogger May Remain Anonymous
Mayer Fertig at the Jewish Star on November 2nd reports (my link/ emphasis):
Display Ads Remain Important To Marketers
According to new data from TNS Media Intelligence, Internet phone company Vonage spent over $185 million on display ads in 2006, outspending competitors Verizon Communications and display ad giant Netflix.
The budget share for display and classified ads will remain unchanged through 2011, with paid search gaining ground and rich media along with video increasing according to eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman.
Why the U.S. Will Remain Dominant in Tech
I was just reading the Global Voices Online blog (excellent blog, rarely is about tech, but brings lots of news and opinions from around the world) and saw this post about an Iranian blogger who is tired of having her blog “filtered” by its government.
Online Career Sites Remain Popular
The Internet plays a key role in many peoples lives. It can entertain and educate. It has also changed the landscape for both job seekers and employers. In October of this year there were 2.5 million new postings for available positions on job search sites or in online newspapers according to the Conference Board. The number marks a 28 percent increase from a year ago.
For Now, NDAs Remain
ZDNet’s Ed Bott captures the pains of interpreting the do’s and dont’s of a corporate NDA in a media environment where bloggers are increasingly receiving the same levels of information and access as their big media counterparts, but are oddly being held to different standards of disclosure — which is the case, right now, with Microsoft’s Office 12 beta:
10 POWERFUL Reasons WHY ‘Articles’ Remain The Internets #1 Marketing Strategy
We’ve all heard it… “Content IS King” and for good reason because it IS as far as the Internet is concerned.
US Crawfishes On ICANN, Will Remain Internet Steward
The US Commerce Department announced yesterday its decision to indefinitely maintain supervision of the Internet’s “root servers” that control web traffic. The decision hasn’t been popular with international stakeholders who think oversight of Internet traffic should be a multi-national effort.