YouTube Attracts 100 Million U.S. Online Video Viewers in October 2008

comScore , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released October 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, reporting that U.S. Internet users viewed 13.5 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 45 percent versus year ago.

Hulu Moves Up to #6 in Rankings

In October, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 5.4 billion videos viewed (representing a 40 percent share of all videos viewed), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 520 million videos (3.8 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 363 million (2.7 percent), and Viacom Digital with 305 million (2.3 percent). Hulu, a joint venture of NBC and Fox featuring full-length broadcast TV programs, ranked sixth with 235 million videos viewed (1.7 percent).

Google Sites Draws 100 Million Video Viewers in October

More than 147 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 92 videos per viewer in October. Google Sites attracted a record 100 million online video viewers, or more than two out of every three Internet users who watched video during the month. Fox Interactive ranked second with 60.8 million viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites (45.2 million) and Microsoft Sites (30.7 million).

Other notable findings from October 2008 include:

• 77 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
• The average online video viewer watched 274 minutes of video.
• More than 80 percent of the 18-34 year olds watched online video,
  higher than any other age segment. The average 18-34 year old online
  video viewer watched 4.8 hours of video during the month, also ranking
  above all other age segments.
• 99.5 million viewers watched 5.3 billion videos on YouTube.com (53.2
  videos per viewer).
• 51.2 million viewers watched 520 million videos on MySpace.com (8.0
  videos per viewer).
• The duration of the average online video was 3.0 minutes.
• The duration of the average online video viewed at Hulu was 11.6
  minutes, higher than any other video property in the top ten.
  

Nokia N97 not compete iPhone 3G

The new flagship of the Finnish media company has made some furore in the mobile environment. Should I fear the brainchild of Steve Dzhobsa competition from the new machine? Popular edition of PC World is your opinion on this matter. To learn how persuasive arguments to judge you, dear reader.

1. The new device is not vnyatnogo name. The absence of a name is not a problem for tehnarey, but ordinary people simply can not feel a really warm feelings to the device with the name «N97» or «N810», if his name is not C3PO and R2D2. The close and familiar type "iPhone", "Chocolate" or "RAZR" has always taken more than a set of numbers and letters.
2. Features Nokia better, but not so much to choose his unit from Apple. Judge for yourself:

• 5MP camera with flash
• 3.5 "resistance touch screen with a resolution of 640x360 pixels
• Slider with the QWERTY-keyboard
• 32GB internal memory, with the possibility of expanding up to 48GB

3. The existence of Apple Apps Store. Undoubtedly, there are good applications for Symbian, but the possibility Apps Store with a system of rewards, advertising, a large community of developers and database of 10,000 available applications (minimum 1 / 10 are really good), spoken in favor of buying iPhone.

4. Brand Nokia, formerly clearly associated with smartphones, somewhat lost its popularity among consumers smart devices, while the Apple iPhone and devices from RIM Blackberry naraschivat its market share.

5. Symbian platform is not as fresh as the MAC OS X from Apple and not be compared to an estimated open platform from Google.

6. The interface is somewhat confusing and not as fast as hoped.

7. N97 slightly thicker and not as comfortable with the conversation as the iPhone.

8. iPhone devoted entire site, while the N97 - one of many in line phones Nokia.

9. By that time, as the unit of Nokia available in a broad sell (the middle of next year) and get off the new smartphone from Apple was not long in coming.

First commercial chip for mobile networks LTE from LG

The company LG Electronics today introduced the first chip for cellular phone, which works with networks of standard LTE (4G). According to the manufacturer, this formulation is a significant step towards the creation of the first commercial mobile phones fourth generation (4G). Dimensions of the new chip constitute 13h13 mm.

During the demonstration, provided the chip speed downloading up to 60 Mbps, a speed of sending data from the device up to 20 Mbps. It should be noted that most "fast" commercial mobile phone is currently using HSDPA technology has a speed of 7.2 Mbps. Representatives of LG argue that future mobile phones equipped with such chips will enable download 700 MB of video per minute.

The demonstration used LG mobile phones based on operating system Windows Mobile, reproduce high-quality video using the service VoD (Video on Demand - video on demand). Projections LG, the first LTE network will have to appear in the world by 2010. LTE technology is now experiencing the company Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group PLC, Verizon Wireless and KDDI Corp.

Ultra Slim Digit MP3 Player

The new MP3 concept by the Lisbon based Portuguese designer Nuno Teixeira is simply mind blowing in the true sense. This user friendly music device signifies complete freedom from wires. Yup it’s just you and the device. This user friendly gadget concept comes with a wireless stereo headset and 20GB of built-in memory. The overall design is simply amazing with soft surfaces and the sleek and extra slim look complete with a pair of wireless headsets.