Posts Tagged ‘western europe

Hot on the heels of last week’s Read/Write World effort, Bing Maps has announced another ambitious project that will improve its imagery collection. It’s called the Global Ortho Project and the goal is to provide consistent, high resolution (30 cms) imagery across every square inch of the United States and Western Europe by June, 2012. Go [...]

Sometimes, when an individual’s trying to be creative, it helps to be surrounded by similar people and toss around interesting ideas.  Or, like some hermit of a writer locking himself in a cabin until a novel’s finished, you may prefer to be alone.  Either way, a new report from Assembla concerning the location of developers [...]

BBC News has a very cool interactive chart up, showing how the Internet grew from 1998 to 2008 in various parts of the world. In 1998, the only countries with significant Internet usage were the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden. Of course, I remember using the Internet in Croatia [...]

According to AdMob, which claims it is the world’s largest mobile advertising platform, mobile web and application use has doubled over the past two years. In September, the firm received over 100 million ad requests from 14 countries, and over 10 million ad requests from 64 countries. AdMob released its Mobile Metrics report for September, [...]

Online news sites are now second only to recommendations from friends as the most trusted source of information in the U.S., according to a survey from TNS. In the U.S. 38 percent of those surveyed cited online news as the most trusted source of information, while 34 percent trusted newspapers and 33 percent TV news. [...]


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