One quarter of worldwide households have Wi-Fi, says Strategy Analytics. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, 25 percent of all "households" worldwide now have Wi-Fi networks set up. In terms of adoption, South Korea tops the list of the 17 countries the firm researched, at 80.3 percent — followed by the UK, Germany, France, and Japan. The US comes in at 61 percent, while India is at the bottom with only 2.5 percent. In terms of raw numbers, however, no country has more Wi-Fi routers in homes than China and Strategy Analytics says the country will be the main driver for adoption for the foreseeable future. The firm predicts that by 2016 worldwide household adoption of Wi-Fi will reach 42 percent, so wireless networking has a long way to go before it's ubiquitous in homes — to say nothing of cities. How The World Spends Its Time Online [INFOGRAPHIC] The web is diverse and users obviously log on for different reasons.
From reading news, socializing on social networks, email and search, advertisers are always trying to understand where people usually spend their time on the web. Using data provided by a recent Nielsen study, the infographic below provides exactly that. So, which web services are used most actively? Email and search are the answers. More than 4 out of 10 users are using emails or/and search engines when connected. Getting news is also one of the main reasons why people log on to the web as users find it more convenient to consume news digitally. More interesting data below. More interesting infographics here. Trend Data.
Three major technology revolutions have occurred during the period the Pew Research Center has been studying digital technology – and yet more are on the horizon. Broadband First, the rise of the internet changed the way that people got information and shared it with each other, affecting everything from users’ basic social relationships to the way that they work, learn, and take care of themselves. The speed of internet connectivity picked up considerably with the rise of broadband connections. As people adopted those higher-speed, always-on connections, they became different internet users: They spent more time online, performed more activities, watched more video, and themselves become content creators.
Mobile Second, mobile connectivity through cell phones, and later smartphones and tablet computers, made any time-anywhere access to information a reality for the vast majority of Americans. Social. 2010 Online, by the Numbers. Illustration by The New York Times Think your e-mail in-box is overflowing because you get dozens of e-mails a day? That’s nothing: Internet users collectively sent 107 trillion (yes, that’s with a “t”) messages in 2010. Granted, a large percentage of those messages were spam, but that’s still a lot of e-mail. And that’s only a tiny slice of the bits that flew around the Internet last year. In an effort to figure out how many e-mails, videos, photos and other digital stuff we collectively uploaded and passed around the Web in 2010, Pingdom, an Internet monitoring service, corralled a number of research reports and company statistics to create a picture of the year in online stuff.
Of course, e-mail is just one piece of the digital pie. The number of people online naturally keeps growing. Internet 2010 in numbers | 2010.