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Report: mobile data traffic to increase 18-fold by 2016
Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016, according to a new forecast from Cisco Systems.
Study: Internet movie rentals are chipping away at Pay TV's dominance
Pay TV operators are starting to lose their long-standing dominance over movie rentals to services that give consumers more control, with 16 percent of all paid on-demand movie rental transactions going to their Internet-based competitors in 2011.
Study: 4% of households bought OTT box for holidays [with chart]
Nearly a third (31 percent) of U.S. broadband households regularly watch over-the-top content - TV programs or movies accessed from the Internet - on their TVs, according to a new report from Parks Associates.
Harris Poll: Apple has best corporate reputation [with charts]
It’s a very good week for Apple. Not only did its share price rally above $500 for the first time, it also pushed Google into second place in the 2012 Harris Poll RQ Study of corporate reputation.
Survey: a third of IT leaders expect to hire in Q1
More than a third of IT decision-makers expect their companies to increase their headcounts during the first quarter, according to a new survey by Hanover, Md.-based TEKsystems and the Inavero Institute.
Bing inches up to second place search engine
When it comes to searching on the Internet, Microsoft sites inched ahead of Yahoo sites for market share, according to the comScore qSearch analysis for January 2012.
Survey: Google's personalized search raises concerns[with chart]
Google has been making significant changes to how it handles search, but according to a recent survey, it’s not receiving much support for the outcome.
Study: Tech helps bridge the generation gap
New research from AARP and Microsoft Corp. found that online communication helps bridge the generation gap, but that many people remain concerned about privacy and security.
Apps lose to Web during Super Bowl [with charts]
The NPD Group determined that cheerleaders for smartphone apps may be disappointed at how well they scored during Super Bowl XLVI.
TiVo's Super Bowl report says football rules over ads [with charts]
TiVo, which has been tracking must-see Super Bowl moments and advertisements for a decade, has released its report on what viewers actually watched on Sunday – and it wasn't the ads.
