Akamai has released its State of the Internet Report for Q1-2016 and the good news is the U.S. internet speeds are improving. The U.S., however, now ranks only 17th globally in average broadband speeds. kbps kbps 1 Korea 29,047 11 Iceland 17,458 2 Norway 21,315 12 Denmark 17,180 3 Sweden 20,646 13 Vatican…
IAB – Click Fraud Reaches Nearly $12B This year, click fraud is on track to cost marketers $11.6 billion in advertising — up 22% from 2013 — according to survey findings released earlier this week by Solve Media. To combat click fraud, the IAB has released its final version of best practices which is available…
Is Gangnam Style the Trophy for Korean Broadband Policy? With broadband speeds more than double that of the US and even a third-more than 2nd ranked Japan, South Korea has boasted the fastest internet for several years running. Now it appears that this year’s viral smash hit, Gangnam Style may be a product of Korean…
SEGMENT 1: David Strom on the Gig City David Strom is a Writer at ReadWriteWeb. He has held editorial management positions for numerous print and Web publications and was the founding editor-in-chief for Network Computing magazine and DigitalLanding.com. He has more than 30 years of IT and tech journalism experience and has written two books on computer…
Village Voice Media Under Increased Pressure to Drop Backpage Sex Ads Two years ago State Attorney Generals pressured Craigslist to drop adult oriented advertisements which reportedly generated approximately $36 million in revenue annually for the online classified giant. The advertisements and pressure have now migrated to Village Voice’s Backpage.com. H&M, Pfitzer Pharmaceutical, IKEA, Barnes and…
TED’S TUBES: P3P NOT AOK AND FASTER THAN A CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO Carnegie Mellon Study: Website Compact Policies Do Not Match Practices A study by Carnegie Mellon University found that websites using the P3P protocol to create compact policies to permit a browser to determine if it is consistent with the user’s privacy…
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