"News Corp's newspapers delivered a 29% increase in profits to $259m, aided by cost cuts at British titles and by a robust performance from the Wall Street Journal. Despite ongoing financial woes on much of Fleet Street, Murdoch singled out the Sun for praise, saying it had achieved record weeks of advertising revenue recently and that it had "left other papers far, far behind in the contest for readers"."
Source: Official News Corp figures, reported by The Guardian, 3rd February 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
American kids spend an average of 49 minutes per day listening to music, playing games, or watching TV on their phones
Click to enlargeSource: Page 19 of Generation M2 - Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Year Olds, The Kaiser Foundation, Janaury 1010
It's a free 85 page report - highly recommended!
Mobile phone ownership among American kids, by age
Click to enlargeSource: Page 18 of Generation M2 - Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Year Olds, The Kaiser Foundation, Janaury 1010
It's a free 85 page report - highly recommended!
Monday, February 1, 2010
A census of files available via BitTorrent
"File types
46% movies and shows (non-pornographic)
14% games and software
14% pornography
10% music
1% books and guides
1% images
14% could not classify"
99% of material infringed copyright:
"Overall, we classified ten of the 1021 files, or approximately 1%, as likely non-infringing, This result should be interpreted with caution, as we may have missed some non-infringing files, and our sample is of files available, not files actually downloaded. Still, the result suggests strongly that copyright infringement is widespread among BitTorrent users."
Source: Assessment of 1021 files avaiable on BitTorrent by Sauhard Sahi, a Princeton senior, reported by the Freedom to Tinker blog, 29th January 2010
46% movies and shows (non-pornographic)
14% games and software
14% pornography
10% music
1% books and guides
1% images
14% could not classify"
99% of material infringed copyright:
"Overall, we classified ten of the 1021 files, or approximately 1%, as likely non-infringing, This result should be interpreted with caution, as we may have missed some non-infringing files, and our sample is of files available, not files actually downloaded. Still, the result suggests strongly that copyright infringement is widespread among BitTorrent users."
Source: Assessment of 1021 files avaiable on BitTorrent by Sauhard Sahi, a Princeton senior, reported by the Freedom to Tinker blog, 29th January 2010
1/3 of the search queries submitted to Google in 2009 had never been asked before
"Proportion of Google users in the United States making more than one query per day: 7 out of 10
Proportion of Google users in the United States making more than 10 queries per day: 1 out of 7
Fraction of Google queries, duplicates excluded, never seen before: More than 1/3
Fraction of Google queries, duplicates included, never seen before: More than 1/5
Country with the greatest increase in Google web search traffic in 2009 vs. 2008: Indonesia*
Approximate percentage of Internet users in Indonesia: 11.1%*
Average amount of time it takes a user to finish entering a query: 9 seconds
Average amount of time it takes Google to answer a query: Less than 1/4 second
Number of search quality improvements made by Google in 2009: 540, ~1.5 each day
Proportion of Google result pages that show a map in search results: 1 in 13
Average increase in driving distance on weekends vs. weekdays on Google Maps: 11km
Median distance from a user's location to ice skating rinks found on Google Maps: 30km
Median distance from a user's location to ski resorts found on Google Maps: 300km"
Source: Google search blog, 8th January 2010, based on weekday US traffic unless stated
Proportion of Google users in the United States making more than 10 queries per day: 1 out of 7
Fraction of Google queries, duplicates excluded, never seen before: More than 1/3
Fraction of Google queries, duplicates included, never seen before: More than 1/5
Country with the greatest increase in Google web search traffic in 2009 vs. 2008: Indonesia*
Approximate percentage of Internet users in Indonesia: 11.1%*
Average amount of time it takes a user to finish entering a query: 9 seconds
Average amount of time it takes Google to answer a query: Less than 1/4 second
Number of search quality improvements made by Google in 2009: 540, ~1.5 each day
Proportion of Google result pages that show a map in search results: 1 in 13
Average increase in driving distance on weekends vs. weekdays on Google Maps: 11km
Median distance from a user's location to ice skating rinks found on Google Maps: 30km
Median distance from a user's location to ski resorts found on Google Maps: 300km"
Source: Google search blog, 8th January 2010, based on weekday US traffic unless stated
The global search market grew by 46% in 2009
"The total worldwide search market boasted more than 131 billion searches conducted by people age 15 or older from home and work locations in December 2009, representing a 46-percent increase in the past year. This number represents more than 4 billion searches per day, 175 million per hour, and 2.9 million per minute. The U.S. represented the largest individual search market in the world with 22.7 billion searches, or approximately 17 percent of searches conducted globally. China ranked second with 13.3 billion searches, followed by Japan with 9.2 billion and the U.K. with 6.2 billion. Among the top ten global search markets, Russia posted the highest gains in 2009, growing 92 percent to 3.3 billion, followed by France (up 61 percent to 5.4 billion) and Brazil (up 53 percent to 3.8 billion)."
Source: Press release from comScore, 22nd January 2010
Source: Press release from comScore, 22nd January 2010
6.5 million homes in the UK have Sky+
"The satellite broadcaster is within touching distance of reaching its long-held target of 10m households after adding 172,000 net new customers in the three months to the end of December, to hit 9.7m.
BSkyB managed to sign up 482,000 households to its Sky+ HD service in the same period, a 156% year-on-year increase, to take the total number of households to 2.08m.
The company's share price rose by 13.5p, or 2.44%, to 567.5p by 8.45am on the back of the strong results.
"It has been another good quarter in what remains a tough environment, with more customers joining Sky and strong demand across our entire product range," said the BSkyB chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, who today announced a further increase in the company's dividend on the back of a solid financial performance.
"The standout performance came in high definition TV with almost half a million [more] customers choosing Sky+HD."
The company admitted it had spent an extra £70m in the six months to the end of December on marketing its HD service.
BSkyB increased the number of customers using its Sky+ personal video recorder set-top boxes by 553,000 in the three months to the end of December. The total Sky+ customer base now stands at 6.5 million."
Source: Sky financial results, reported by The Guardian, 28th January 2010
BSkyB managed to sign up 482,000 households to its Sky+ HD service in the same period, a 156% year-on-year increase, to take the total number of households to 2.08m.
The company's share price rose by 13.5p, or 2.44%, to 567.5p by 8.45am on the back of the strong results.
"It has been another good quarter in what remains a tough environment, with more customers joining Sky and strong demand across our entire product range," said the BSkyB chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, who today announced a further increase in the company's dividend on the back of a solid financial performance.
"The standout performance came in high definition TV with almost half a million [more] customers choosing Sky+HD."
The company admitted it had spent an extra £70m in the six months to the end of December on marketing its HD service.
BSkyB increased the number of customers using its Sky+ personal video recorder set-top boxes by 553,000 in the three months to the end of December. The total Sky+ customer base now stands at 6.5 million."
Source: Sky financial results, reported by The Guardian, 28th January 2010
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