Open-source Web browser, Firefox, has over 125 million users according to John Lilly, claims Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer on his personal blog.
How do they come to this figure, beyond guessing? As part of its daily routine, Firefox checks back with the ‘Mother’ servers to ask if there’s been an update. It’s by counting these pings that they derive the numbers.
Firefox has gradually built up a following, in a world dominated by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Last time we covered it, in March this year, the research indicated that Firefox had around a 14% share. Lilly’s posting leads to the actual Firefox figure being more like 10.5%, based on their estimate of 1.2 billion Internet users worldwide.
It’s a good thing that we’re all becoming aware of the impact of our actions on the world as a whole. One of the problems is being able to know what the impact different types of actions make.
Big moves in the video game industry arose yesterday, as media giant Vivendi announced plans to take a controlling stake in Activision. They plan to call it Activision Blizzard.
UK Broadcaster, Channel 4, have announced that they’re starting a “TV Clips” broadband channel which will feature clips from current TV programmes, an archive of the best moments from Channel 4’s 25 years of broadcasting, and a preview of new programming coming to Channel 4.
MTV Networks Chairman and Chief Executive Judy McGrath said of Web distributed content and TV content, at the Reuters Media Summit, “One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick.” Wow what a change around that is in the TV world.
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Ofcom has been consistently moving to reduce the amount of time that it takes to change mobile numbers from one to another – or port them as it’s know in the telecoms trade.
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Barclays Bank have cut off some of their business customers from making payments to new suppliers, by forcing them to use PIN Sentry hardware that they don’t yet have.
Firstly You Tube. Well, I was sceptical. I’m not particularly interested in roller skating dogs, or Chinese students miming to East 17, and besides expected it to be a tediously slow affair over EDGE. But, surprisingly, it works – with very little delay at all. Some people will love this I think, but probably not me.