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The current technology downturn notwithstanding, the Yankee Group predicts robust growth in web-hosting revenues in the international markets of Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific (including Japan). Recently released forecasts project the three regions’ combined revenues for shared hosting, dedicated hosting and collocation to grow from $3.3 billion in 2001 to $14.5 billion in 2006, a… Continue reading Robust Growth Predicted For Web Hosting Revenues, Despite Technology Downturn

According to a new global forecast from the Yankee Group, by 2003, more than half of the broadband revenues in the European, Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions will be come from the Asia-Pacific, but the trend will veer toward Europe in 2006, with 51% of broadband access revenues originating on the continent by that time.… Continue reading Asia-Pacific To Lead Broadband Revenues With Europe Catching, Says Yankee Group

Internet penetration across Europe may have reached a plateau, according to a European Commission report – eEurope 2002 – released this month. Internet penetration in European households rose from 18% in March 2000 to 28% in October 2000, 36% in June 2001 and reached 38% by December last year. This suggest that the rapid take-up… Continue reading European Net Penetration May Plateau Below US, Finds EC

Parks Associates estimates that by the end of 2005, US households will have more than 80 million connection points for entertainment-specific applications. “We believe that digital content in the form of video and high-quality audio files will drive certain home networking applications, especially if that content can be aggregated on a platform and sent to… Continue reading US Homes Will Have 80m Entertainment Network Connection Points By 2005

The European online travel market will be valued at more than E20 billion by 2006, according to a new report from Jupiter MMXI, with the UK currently leading the way with almost six million unique visitors in January 2002. Germany and France follow the UK with 5.1 million and 2.5 million unique visitors in the… Continue reading European Online Travel Market To Be Worth E20bn By 2006, Says Jupiter

New research from Oftel reveals that 63% of small and medium sized businesses are now online, an increase from 55% in May 2001. Almost two thirds now also use a mobile phone. The research, carried out during November 2001, also revealed that 36% of all SMEs use more than one fixed telecoms supplier and a… Continue reading UK Small Business Internet Use Growing, Says Oftel

Emarketer has compiled an analysis of forecasts for the growth of public access wireless local area networks (WLAN) in the US. WLANs allow mobile users to connect ‘wirelessly’ to a local network – such as a school educational system for example. Forecasts from Analysys show that 21 million people in the US will be using… Continue reading Wireless Local Networks Will Be Used By 21m Americans By 2007

Despite evidence to the contrary, online advertising levels declined only slightly last year when compared to 2000 and the decline was less pronounced than that of other media. This is according to the Assessing Online And Offline Ad Measurement Systems report released by Ipro at the end of last month. Ipro conducted the survey across… Continue reading Online Advertising Measurement Standards Must Improve, Finds Ipro Survey

According to the latest data from the Federal Communications Commission, high speed access in the US has grown by 250% since August 2000. The latest figues, to June 2001, reveal that there are now 9.6 million high speed subscribers in the US which signifies a 36% increase during H1 2001. 7.8 million of these subscribers… Continue reading High Speed Access Gathers Pace In US

The number of internet users globally grew to a record 308.8 million in January 2002, according to ComScore. This represents an increase of 1.3% on December’s total. The increase was largely driven by growth in the number of users outside the US. An increase of almost 2% was recorded amongst the non-US audience where users… Continue reading Global Internet Users Hit 308.8 Million In January