China, India & Japan constitutes the fastest growing countries of Internet population in Asia-Pacific region, with China being the home to largest Internet audience in the world. The study report released by Comscore Inc., measured internet population accessing web from a home or work location and excluding public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs. In September 2009, China with 220.8 million internet population showed a 31 percent increase, making it the fastest-growing Internet country in the region. Japan 68.3 million online population showed 18 percent increase, and India with 35.8 million users online showed 17 percent increase from last year, however when it comes to figure its just around 5k users increment in Indian online audience. Asia Pacific Region and Individual Country Growth by Unique Visitors September 2009 vs. September 2008 Total Asia Pacific Internet Audience*, Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix Total Unique Visitors (000) Sep-2008 Sep-2009 % Change Asia Pacific 396,000 484,245 22 China 168,258 220,834 31 Japan 57,933 68,319 18 India 30,719 35,810 17 South Korea 26,656 29,197 10 Australia 11,369 12,746 12 Taiwan 10,619 12,060 14 Malaysia 8,680 9,401 8 Hong Kong 3,762 3,939 5 Singapore 2,388 2,725 14 New Zealand 2,277 2,618 15 Source: Comscore, Inc. (Stats excludes public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs) Asia have largest Internet population in the world and fastest-growing as well. Noticeably, these three countries - China, Japan and India outrun all other prominent countries in ...

India has been identified as Top Global internet market by Google Sites’ in terms of share of time spent on Google owned sites in July 2009 by comScore Inc., a digital marketing intelligence company. In India 28.9 percent of total time spent online was spent on Google owned sites such as Gmail, Orkut, Blogger, Picassa, etc.. India stands just after Brazil which is at top with 29.8% share of time spent on Google sites. Google Sites ranked as the most visited Internet property worldwide with 854 million unique visitors age 15 and older in July, an increase of 18-percent during the past year. Nearly 75 percent of all Internet users worldwide visited the Google Sites property, which accounted for 9.4 percent of all time spent online. Nearly one out of every ten minutes a person spends online around the world is spent on a Google site. In India, Google Sites accounted for 88.4 percent of all searches conducted, and had commanding share of time spent in social networking with Orkut (68.2 percent), maps with Google Maps (63.9 percent), multimedia with YouTube (82.8 percent). It also commanded slightly less than half of all time spent in the blogs category with Blogger (47.6 percent) ...

With a new technology called 'Mobile Everywhere' companies can create cost effective security solutions for identification, authentication and signing on the Internet. With this solution organizations can simplify and secure login, authentication and signing using the users mobile phone, replacing security solutions like, one-time codes, hardware token authenticators, certificates on computers and of course the use of ID and password. The technology has been brought by Accumulate, a London and Stockholm based online security solutions company for the mobile. This innovative and patented mobile technology platform enables enterprises and organizations to increase the use of the Internet as the carrier of sensitive company information. The technology also enables companies to offer their employees, partners and suppliers new innovative and secure services. In addition administration, logistics and the cost of hardware tokens and the alike are reduced. "Many organisations would like employees to have secure access to the company system wherever they are. The problem has been to find simple and cost effective solutions. With Accumulate’s technology companies can now provide their employees with access to information without high investments in special code boxes, scratch cards or costs of one-time codes via SMS. This though we make use of the user’s mobile as ...

Sify, yesterday has become first commercial content portal in India to be IPv6 enabled making Sify first to leave 20 years old IPv4 technology and deploy IPv6 technologies and its associated services in India. Apparently in India before Sify there seems to be only one IPv6 enabled website which is - IPv6 test network at BITS, Pilani, though not being commercial, Sify now become one of the first such service for public. IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, such as the limited number of available IPv4 addresses along with other improvements such as routing, networking and auto configuration. From now onwards, Sify's entire suite of IP connectivity services, including Internet access to enterprise customers and MPLS-based IP-VPN services are IPv6 enabled. This ensures that Sify's customers can transition and migrate from a basic IPv4 based network service to IPv6 Next Generation Network with dual-stack i.e. IPv6 & IPv4 support.

Microsoft Corporation today launched Microsoft Mediaroom with virtualization, making Mediaroom the first Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform to offer virtualization support. Mediaroom with virtualization can deliver up to a sixfold reduction in the number of physical servers required to support a full-featured IPTV service, significantly reducing hardware and management costs and speeding time to market for Mediaroom customers by up to three weeks. Mediaroom with virtualization is designed to provide a cost-effective yet full-featured IPTV platform for smaller operators, for operators launching new services as they scale their subscriber base, and for operators who want to extend an existing service into new markets to serve lower-density communities. Microsoft Mediaroom amplifies TV experience and subscribed customers get Mediaroom-powered TV service, favorite shows, channels, movies, and sports – all in digital and High-Definition (HD) picture quality. Combine that with an easy on-screen guide and advanced features like a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), Video On Demand (VOD), lightning-fast channel change, the ability to watch up to six channels at one time, and you'll see why Microsoft Mediaroom is the best TV experience – letting you control not just what you watch, but when and where you watch it. Plus, cool media-sharing capabilities let you share photos, videos, ...

According to Trend Micro analysis, 24% of the manually detected malicious URLs during Valentines season contained the string love, or references to it. Even mobile phone users are not spared this Valentine’s. Perhaps targeting on the romantic side of computer users, spammers have gone full steam on Valentine’s Day. Trend Micro, a global leader in Internet content security, has found a rise in spam campaigns using Valentine’s Day as a theme in creating malicious codes. Whether this is attributable to the romantic nature of humanity in general or to love’s overwhelming effect on everyone, the spammers are taking advantage of this and leave love messages, or traces of it in their codes. Storm Technique Love as a social engineering technique is most popular in the spamming operations of the botnet giant Storm. Known for taking advantage of every occasion and holiday known to man, Storm sends Christmas ecards on Christmas, New Year ecards on or before every first of January, and love ecards during the Valentine’s season. The intent is to convert more zombie PCs for the bot, which would then be used for future cybercriminal activities – spamming, scamming, information theft, DDOS attacks. The first Storm malware to send love greetings was WORM_NUWAR.CQ, ...

Trend Micro, Inc., a global leader in Internet content security, has set up three technology support labs (Tech Labs), known as the "Trend Micro Experience Labs" in New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai cities of India. The tech labs set-up is part of their Affinity Partner program, to help empower its channel partners in India. These Tech labs also give the partners and customers a real-time simulated environment where they can try and test various scenarios that they might otherwise not be able to do onsite. In terms of technical support, partners receive support ranging from on a 24/7 basis with shared Technical Account Managers access to a toll-free and email support, to having contact 24/7, depending on their accreditation level within the program. Trend Micro expects a 50% growth in its number of channel partners in India by introduction of this program. Says Mr. Amit Nath, Country Manager (India & SAARC), Trend Micro, "Over the last few years, we observed that our channel community partners do not have the requisite infrastructure either to demonstrate our products to prospective customers or train their own internal resources on Trend Micro products. While bigger partners might be able to setup a lab, majority of our partners ...

At the end of year 2008 when the number the number of broadband subscribers in India was 52.8 lakh and the ISPs providing broadband internet also growing Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a consultation paper on "Bandwidth required for ISPs for better connectivity and improved quality of service" and this way will identify easily monitorable and enforceable quality of service (QoS) of ISPs, to ensure that a bare minimum (floor) bandwidth is available with service providers for their subscribers in India. TRAI has realized that India is growing as emerging countries for application that require higher bandwidth with speed and quality at high priority such as IPTV, P2P sharing, online videos, virtual tours along with e-marts and e-commerce related applications. As a matter of fact TRAI has revealed that subscribers in India alleged that Broadband connections is much less than subscribed speed. Earlier in year 2006 TRAI had define various parameters like packet loss, latency in the network, peak bandwidth utilization etc. and ISPs are supposed to monitor their network and take corrective measures/ action to maintain quality of service. And despite of this it is seen that such corrective actions are not taken by ISPs in time. Via Press Bureau ...

Ghajini is one big thing these days among hindi movie freaks and the producers and a digital marketing company for the first time in India has come up with such kind of plan. With few user-involving online promoting tools and websites Ghajini makers are reaping the benefits of web and internet. The trick is its engaging official website - RememberGhajini.com to create maximum visibility for the movie. However in addition to the extraordinary website are the two viral application cum websites (below) that grip the user and give him an experience like the movie, over the Internet. The creators of Ghajini and Hungama took this initiative to attract the online audience to the theatres. Exclusive videos of Aamir Khan have been shot and used for the so called viral application www.findghajini.com. In this application, the user plays the lead role of movie which is played by actor Aamir Khan and tries to find Ghajini through the clues provided. After the user finds a clue, he/ she is given a hint about where one might find the next one. After one finds all the clues, the user needs to dial a phone number on which one can hear Aamir Khan talking to them. In ...

Internet and phone communications in various countries like India, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Taiwan and Pakistan and been disrupted and it is believed that 65% of traffic to India was down. The reason was severed submarine cable near the Alexandria cable station in Egypt which all been cut. Even I could see the slowdown effects of same on my broadband internet connection till today morning (21st December, 08). The full proof work is still going on and second subsea cable is being laid near Malta and it will take 31 December to fully repair the line. Serious effects has been predicted to economies of most effected countries. According to report published by Bloomberg - Internet traffic "from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route," Reliance said in an e-mailed "traffic disruption update," adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services. The main damage is to the four submarine cables running across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal and the cause of this is believed to be seismic activity or could even be the anchors of big ships.