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Google flips switch on mobile YouTube banner ads
Phone vid traffic up ‘160%’ Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.…
Continue reading »Italians Circumvent Pirate Bay Blockade
BitTorrent tracker site BTjunkie sees 50% jump in Italian visitor traffic. It was back in early August of 2008 that it a judge from the Court of Bergamo had first ordered Italian ISPs to begin blocking customer access to BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay after complaints from FIMI, the Italian version of the RIAA, of copyright infringement. The blockade was later lifted on appeal a few months later, but the FIMI persevered and ultimately prevailed this past September.
Continue reading »Google and Yahoo! join Oz protests
Mass clog-up of Conroy’s web filter Google and Yahoo! have joined a pressure group which seeks to stop Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s doomed attempt to filter Aussie web traffic.…
Continue reading »etc: Traffic to Gmail from Iran has dropped sharply in the wake of the decision to block the e-mail site, according to Google.
Traffic to Gmail from Iran has dropped sharply in the wake of the decision to block the e-mail site, according to Google. Read More: BusinessWeek
Continue reading »YouTube Use Accountable for 10% of Mobile Data
Mobile traffic reports during the second semester of 2009 indicate that YouTube is responsible for utilizing a tenth of existing data transfer resources, similar to P2P file sharing. A comprehensive study conducted by experts from Allot Communications, providers of network optimization for operators, reveals that mobile users favor streaming over HTTP. However, P2P traffic is closing in fast, accounting for the congestion of the most crowded five per cent of cells, with figures of up to 34 per cent, compared to about 12 per cent overall.
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