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WorldWideWeb Statistics

Estimated online population in September 2009 is 1.73 Billion. The highest regional population is 738 million in Asia but that is only 19% of the total Asian population. Next largest is Europe with 418 million, that's 52% of the population. Then North America with 252 million, that's 74% of the population.
Source: Internet World Stats February 2010

Estimated worldwide projected online population 2011 - 2 Billion?
Estimated worldwide projected online population 2010 - 1.8 Billion?
Estimated worldwide online population 2008 - 1.59 Billion
Estimated worldwide online population 2007 - 1.35 Billion
Estimated worldwide online population 2006 - 1.21 Billion
Estimated worldwide online population 2005 - 1.07 Billion
Estimated worldwide online population 2004 - 934 Million
Source: Computer Industry Almanac

Estimated Number of Active Websites Worldwide:-
December 2009 - 233,848,493
December 2008 - 186,727,854
December 2007 - 155,230,051
December 2006 - 105,244,649
December 2005 - 74,353,258
December 2004 - 56,923,737
December 2003 - 45,980,112
December 2002 - 35,543,105
December 2001 - 36,276,252
December 2000 - 25,675,581
December 1999 - 9,560,866
December 1998 - 3,689,227
December 1997 - 1,681,868
December 1996 - 603,367
August 1995 - 18,957
Source: Netcraft

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until  2003, according to (Eric Schmidt - Google CEO). That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says. Let me repeat that: we create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003. “The real issue is user-generated content,” Schmidt said. He noted that pictures, instant messages, and tweets all add to this.
Source: TechCrunch August 2010

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a non-profit Washington DC-based research organisation, the number of US adults accessing the web from a phone or laptop has risen from 51 per cent in April last year, to 64 per cent in 2010. The report shows that 47 per cent of adults accessing the internet from mobile devices use laptops, while 40 per cent use their mobile phones.
Source: Washington Post July 2010

An IDC analyst has warned that upcoming estimates of the explosion in data traffic are hugely underestimated. IDC analyst Frank Gens warned at the Citrix Synergy 2010 event that the current increase in data loads is just the start, and that predictions of how heavy it will get are unreliable. The analyst firm's research suggests that the global data load will rise from 0.8 zettabytes in 2009 to 35 zettabytes in 2020, but that even this might understate the case. A zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes. "These figures are wrong in my opinion. They are too low," he said.
Source: CRN May 2010

25% of the World's populations are internet users.
58% of Americans have a mobile phone with Web connectivity.
There are more mobile phones than computers connected to the internet.
Six-times as many non-PC devices as PCs to be connected to networks by 2012.
Source: IBM January 2010

Defying the unfavourable economic conditions, the global take up of broadband and IPTV continued to showcase an impressive growth, according to a recent study by industry consortium Broadband Forum.The study revealed that as many as 16.5 million new broadband lines were added globally in the first quarter of the year, with the total count of lines reaching a whopping 429.2 million worldwide.... The figures notified that China is leading in terms of installed broadband lines, with the total line count for the country rose to 88 million from 71 million, and the US is at the second spot with 84 million installed broadband lines. However, UK managed to snare the sixth rank, with the country's broadband population stood at 17.7 million at the quarter's end, up from 16.3 million for the same time a year ago.
Source: ITProPortal June 2009

More than half the world's population now pay to use a mobile phone and nearly a quarter use the internet, as developing countries rapidly adopt new communications technologies. By the end of last year there were an estimated 4.1bn mobile subscriptions, up from 1bn in 2002, according to a report published today by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an agency of the UN. That represents six-in-ten of the world's population, with developing countries accounting for about two-thirds of the mobile phones in use, compared with less than half of subscriptions in 2002. Over the same period, fixed-line subscriptions rose more modestly, from 1bn to 1.27bn, indicating that many people in the developing world are bypassing the older technology altogether. "There has been a clear shift to mobile cellular telephony," the ITU said.
Source: Guardian Newspaper March 2009

Research Firm Point Topic has found that the worldwide number of broadband subscribers has now exceeded 400 million, growing nearly 7000 times over the last decade. Most of the users are on DSL broadband with 45 million broadband users on fiber optic and a roughly similar number on cable.
Source: ITProPortal November 2008

An 'exabyte' is 1.074 billion gigabytes. Two exabytes equal the total volume of information generated in 1999. The internet currently handles one exabyte of data every hour.
Source: Internet Innovation Alliance April 2008

It took two centuries to fill the shelves of the Library of Congress with more than 57 million manuscripts, 29 million books and periodicals, 12 million photographs, and more. Now, the world generates an equivalent amount of digital information nearly 100 times each day.
Source: Internet Innovation Alliance April 2008

In July 2008 Google claimed to have indexed over 1 trillion web pages.
In November 2005 Google claimed to have indexed over 8 billion web pages.
In May 2004 Google claimed to have indexed over 4 billion web pages.
In November 2002 Google claimed to have indexed over 3 billion web pages.
When it first began in 1998 Google indexed 28 million web pages, however by the end of 2000 it claimed to have indexed over 1 billion web pages.
Source: Research Buzz / Google

Five years ago Google had 8,000 servers in their farm - its now estimated that they have 500,000 servers. Google are now building a new farm site which is the size of two football pitches.
Source: IBM August 2006

Social Software

Twitter has revealed that it has served its 10 billionth tweet last night at 1am GMT,.… Gigatweet, a service whose sole purpose is to count Twitter messages, calculated Twitter will produce its 20 billionth twitter by October 2010 and is currently growing at the rate of roughly 66 million per tweet per day. Twitter said last month that back in 2007, there were 5000 tweets a day, the year later, that reached 300,000 and in 2009, that number reached 2.5 million a day. Now this has reached more than 760 tweets a second.
Source: ITProPortal March 2010

“A lot has happened in a year within the social software and collaboration space. The growing use of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook by business users has resulted in serious enterprise dialogue about procuring social software platforms for the business,” said Mark R. Gilbert, research vice president at Gartner and co-chair of the Portals, Content and Collaboration (PCC) Summit. “Success in social software and collaboration will be characterized by a concerted and collaborative effort between IT and the business.”
Source: Gartner February 2010

By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users. Greater availability of social networking services both inside and outside the firewall, coupled with changing demographics and work styles will lead 20 percent of users to make a social network the hub of their business communications. During the next several years, most companies will be building out internal social networks and/or allowing business use of personal social network accounts. Social networking will prove to be more effective than e-mail for certain business activities such as status updates and expertise location.
Source: Gartner February 2010

Video mammoth Youtube has announced that it has managed to reach one billion videos streamed a day, a fantastic achievement for a company that's less than five years old.
Source: ITProPortal October 2009

24% of Tweets are created by automated bots, not humans, according to a recent study. Meanwhile, it was found that 5% of Twitter accounts generate 75% of Tweets.
Source: Mashable August 2009

Twitter’s website attracted a total of 44.5 million unique visitors worldwide in June, 2009, according to comScore. Twitter’s worldwide audience grew a healthy 19 percent from May 2009 (and an even healthier 1,460 percent from June, 2008, when its worldwide audience was just 2.9 million). With 20 million of its visitors coming from the U.S., Twitter’s audience is now 55 percent international. ComScore now counts it as the No. 52 largest site in the world (bigger than ESPN, just shy of the BBC and Craigslist).
Source: TechCrunch August 2009

Facebook grew from 100 million to 200 million users in just 8 months. Now, the company has announced that it has gone from 200 million to 250 million in just over 3 months. In other words, despite its already massive size, Facebook’s growth actually appears to still be accelerating. More important than the raw user count though is what users are actually doing on the site. And earlier this week, we reported that Facebook is also number one in terms of the amount of time users spend on the site, beating out the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft with each user spending an average of 4 hours, 39 minutes on the social network in June.
Source: Mashable July 2009

(UK) Figures from the metrics firm comScore - and echoed by Nielsen and Hitwise - show that Facebook secured its dominance over MySpace in the UK early last year, since when MySpace's user base has declined regularly. By comScore's estimates, unique users have fallen 18%, from 8.5 million in April 2008 to 7 million one year later, while Facebook has seen 63% growth to 23.5 million unique users. Twitter, while starting from a small user base, has seen traffic rise nearly 4,000% to 2.5 million unique users a month - and that excludes traffic through third-party applications, which are estimated to make up a substantial amount, between one-third and two-thirds, of the service's traffic, which means it has far more impact.Bebo, usually considered to have a younger user profile - principally, school-age children - has also lost out: unique users dropped 24% year on year to 9 million in April. Kate Burns, vice-president and managing director of Bebo Europe, acknowledged the economic climate, but said social networking is trend driven; 2006 was MySpace's year, 2007 Bebo, 2008 Facebook and 2009 Twitter.
Source: Guardian Newspaper June 2009

Social Networking and Blog Sites Ranked by Total Minutes: Site Apr-08 Total Apr-09 Total Year-over-Year -
April 2008 Minutes (000) / April 2009 Minutes (000) / Percent Growth:
Facebook 1,735,698 / 13,872,640 / +699%
Myspace 7,254,645 / 4,973,919 / -31%
Blogger 448,710 / 582,683 / +30%
Tagged.com 29,858 / 327,871 / +998%
Twitter.com 7,865 / 299,836 / +3712%
MyYearbook 131,105 / 268,565 / +105%
LiveJournal 54,671 / 204,121 / +273%
LinkedIn 119,636 / 202,407 / +69%
Source: Nielsen NetView - April 2009

Worldwide visitors to Twitter approached 10 million in February, up an impressive 700+% vs. year ago. The past two months alone have seen worldwide visitors climb more than 5 million visitors. U.S. traffic growth has been just as dramatic, with Twitter reaching 4 million visitors in February, up more than 1,000% from a year ago.
Source: comScore April 2009

Social networking website Facebook has reached another important milestone this year, signing in its 200 millionth user, three months after hitting 150 million members landmark. All this of course is happening during the firm's fifth birthday and while questions are being asked about its very ability to raise revenue (ed: nobody questions its ability to burn capital though). Over the same roughly the period, Myspace grew to 130 million members worldwide and Linkedin to 38 million users.
Source: ITProPortal April 2009

Figures disclosed by internet research company comScore shows that social networking website Facebook is more popular than ever, eclipsing the likes of Myspace and Bebo globally. By some accounts, Facebook is growing at the breathtaking speed of one million users per day. In January 2009, Myspace attracted 124 million unique visitors while Facebook recorded 276 million uniques, a 123 percent difference. What makes those figures even more dizzying is the fact that Facebook traffic actually grew by nearly 17 percent while Myspace unique visitors number shrunk by 2 percent over that period.
Source: ITProPortal April 2009

As the number of people engaged in social media increases, people are more likely to be involved in communicating than seeking out entertaining activities online such as viewing Web sites for fun. That's according to "Media Shifts to Social," a Netpop Research report.
Source: ClickZ March 2009

Figures published by online research firm Nielsen Online show that social networking behemoth Facebook has more than doubled in size (in the UK market) during the last 12 months, further widening the gap with the likes of Myspace and Bebo. Facebook had 17.6 million unique users in January 2009, that's nearly twice the size of Bebo and Myspace combined (at 4.3 million and 5.4 million unique UK users respectively). At this rate, it is likely that Facebook exerts an even bigger domination in the UK social networking sector than Google in the search arena.
Source: ITProPortal February 2009

Handhelds & Smartphones

More than 70 per cent people in the world subscribe to a mobile connection, according to data recently released by telecommunications company Ericsson. The company said that the global mobile phone market totalled five billion users, and was growing at the rate of two million new users every day. The figure of 70 per cent is calculated from data released by the United Nations and US census bureau, which estimates that there are 6.8 billion people on earth. The company reports that the there were just 720 million mobile subscribers just ten years ago. If the market were to continue growing at the current rate and the global population remained unchanged, everyone in the world would become a mobile subscriber within two and a half years.
Source: ITProPortal July 2010

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a non-profit Washington DC-based research organisation, the number of US adults accessing the web from a phone or laptop has risen from 51 per cent in April last year, to 64 per cent in 2010. The report shows that 47 per cent of adults accessing the internet from mobile devices use laptops, while 40 per cent use their mobile phones.
Source: Washington Post July 2010

Facebook Dominates U.K. Mobile Internet Use. Facebook accounted for almost 40 percent of page impressions from U.K. mobile devices during December, according to data from the GSM Association and comScore.
Source: ClickZ February 2010

According to a recent report (Predicts 2010: 'Social Software Is an Enterprise Reality' December 3, 2009) Gartner expects to see steep growth rates for sales of premises- and cloud-based social networking services.  As the industry moves toward three billion phones worldwide with the purpose of providing communications and collaboration anytime and anywhere, Gartner expects more people to spend significant time using collaborative tools on these devices.
Source: IBM January 2010

The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.
Source: Morgan Stanley December 2009

Small business owners have been advised that more than 10m Britons are using their phone to surf the internet, according to figures released by Nielsen. The data means that around 20% of those with a mobile use it to access websites and that all small businesses must have a site that is compatible with mobile technology. There are now 6.2m smartphone users in the UK after 600,000 people bought one of the latest technology phones since last summer.
Source: NewBusinessUK November 2009

Universal access to collaboration technology on any device will redefine what it means to be "at work" in an increasingly mobile and globally distributed workforce. Improved applications for mobile devices will offer enterprise office levels of security, flexibility and ease-of-use
Source: Bob Picciano, General Manager IBM Lotus Software - CIO May 2009

In the next decade many Internet users will be supplementing PC Internet usage with Smartphone, mobile phone and mobile device Internet usage. In developing countries many new Internet users will come from cell phone and Smartphone Internet usage.
Source: Computer Industry Almanac May 2009

Speaking in Geneva about the creation of the WWW, (Tim) Berners-Lee said that the future of the web, as we know it, will lie in mobile phones. Not the current ones but the new breed of smartphones that is currently taking the world by storm. A recent report by Informa Telecoms and Media concluded that nearly 40 percent of mobile phones sold in 2013 will be smartphones, growing by a third each year on average. Unlike the current crop of mobile phones, smartphones will be built from ground up to access the internet. And as Tim Berners-lee rightly points out, smartphones are the only way that the overwhelming majority of the world will actually see the internet at all. The trend towards cheaper smartphones was highlighted at CeBIT and the Mobile World Congress with models starting from around £44.
Source: ITProPortal March 2009

More than half the world's population now pay to use a mobile phone and nearly a quarter use the internet, as developing countries rapidly adopt new communications technologies. By the end of last year there were an estimated 4.1bn mobile subscriptions, up from 1bn in 2002, according to a report published today by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an agency of the UN. That represents six-in-ten of the world's population, with developing countries accounting for about two-thirds of the mobile phones in use, compared with less than half of subscriptions in 2002. Over the same period, fixed-line subscriptions rose more modestly, from 1bn to 1.27bn, indicating that many people in the developing world are bypassing the older technology altogether. "There has been a clear shift to mobile cellular telephony," the ITU said.
Source: Guardian Newspaper March 2009

"The investment bank Jeffries estimates that global shipments of smartphones will increase 17% in 2009 to 191m units, making them one of the only growth segments in a mobile-device market that Nokia has warned will be at least 10% down this year."
Source: The Observer Newspaper February 2009

IBM's Institute for Business Value predicts one billion mobile Web users by 2011 and a significant shift in the way the majority of people will interact with the Web over the next decade.
Source: IBM Lotus January 2009

In the future, mobile will become the more dominant means to connect to information, and advertising will evolve to other models. That's according to "Future of the Internet III," a report released by Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University, with insight from Internet activists, builders, and commentators.
Source: ClickZStats December 2008

A study by research firm Nielsen Online shed light on the booming mobile internet market in Britain which grew eight times faster than wired internet across the country, although in absolute numbers, the latter still accounts for the overwhelming number of connections. In the last quarter alone, mobile internet was up by 25 percent with the younger generation of surfers more likely to use the internet on the move than stuck to their desktops. A quarter of all mobile internet users are aged between 15 and 24 while only one in six of desktop internet users. In comparison, fixed internet users only rose from 34.3 million to 35.3 million. Should UK mobile internet continue to grow at the current rate, the sector should overtake fixed internet by end of 2010, which is feasible since there are more mobile phones in Britain than computers. According to Nielsen Online, more than 7.5 million UK users access the web regularly through their mobile phones. The research did not cover mobile broadband internet using dongles (or tethered mobile phones) and laptops.
Source: ITProPortal November 2008

Mobile instant messaging remains the fastest growing segment of the instant messaging market. The spread of smartphones and unlimited data plans will help organizations project communications costs and only encourage the spread of mobile instant messaging.
Source: Osterman Research September 2008

Blogs On The Web

Technorati has now indexed a total of 75.2 million weblogs worldwide. There are 1.5 million posts per day, that's 17 per second.
Source: Technorati April 2007

Messaging & Spam

"While 2009 was certainly a tough year for companies, the integrated collaborative environments submarket remains one of the cornerstones of the collaborative applications market as well as one of its largest segments in terms of revenue," says Erin Traudt, research director of IDC's Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions program. "IDC believes that email will remain a core component of technology portfolios as it continues to evolve from a standalone application to an integrated communications environment that includes functionality such as email, IM, conferencing, voice, and presence as well as social content and community features."
Source: IDC June 2010

"It is worse than ever," says Richard Cox of Spamhaus, which tracks the world's worst spammers and runs blacklists to help block them. "The fact that it's growing, I don't think anyone can exactly miss out on" .....The totality of spam is hard to gauge, but Cisco produced an estimate late last year of around 200bn junk emails a day. That number is growing rapidly, with Symantec suggesting incidence of spam has almost trebled in the past year. This year will break records for spam sent, even though growth has slowed.
Source: Guardian November 2009

Spam and phishing attacks make up 97% of the email that is sent, according to an information security report from Microsoft. The figure is a three percent rise on the previous year. Microsoft said that 97% of the email sent around the world was blocked as being spam, phishing attacks or carriers of malicious software in the second half of 2008. In the same period of 2007 94% of email was blocked on that basis, its report from the previous year said. "More than 97 percent of e-mail messages sent over the internet are unwanted: they have malicious attachments or are phishing attacks or spam," said Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report for July to December 2008.
Source: Radicati Group April 2009

The average business user sent and received more than 130 business emails per day in 2007.
Source: Radicati Group January 2008

Email traffic will double in only a few months if an exceptional growth in spam continues. According to Email Systems spam mail growth accelerated from July 2006 leading to overall email traffic growth rates of 25-35% per month.
Source: Computing January 2007

Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year, according to Ironport, a spam filtering firm, and unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages sent over the Internet.
Source: New York Times December 2006

Spamhaus has published a revised list of the world's 10 worst spammers. According to the anti-spam organisation, 200 professional spam gangs are responsible for 80 per of the high volume of junk mail pumped onto the internet every day.Public enemy number one is a Ukrainian known variously as Alex or Alexey, a prolific user of botnets, networks of PCs compromised with malware, to send out junk mail in association with a Russian spam gang called Pavka/Artofit.
Source: The Register November 2006

Worldwide email traffic will grow from 171 billion messages per day in 2006, to 331 billion messages per day in 2009. The worldwide email installed base will increase from 1.4 billion mailboxes in 2006, to 2.2 billion mailboxes in 2009, growing at an average annual rate of 16%.
Source: Radicati January 2006

Worldwide spam traffic will increase from 116 billion messages in 2006, to 228 billion messages in 2009.
Source: Radicati January 2006

Some 12 trillion e-mail messages are estimated to be sent around the globe every year — and that figure alone grows by the day.
Source: ServerWatch January 2005

According to research from Forrester Consulting, 44 per cent of large corporations in the US now pay someone to monitor and snoop on what's in the company's outgoing mail, with 48 per cent actually regularly auditing email content.
Source: Silicon.Com July 2004

Instant Messaging

Mobile instant messaging remains the fastest growing segment of the instant messaging market. The spread of smartphones and unlimited data plans will help organizations project communications costs and only encourage the spread of mobile instant messaging.
Source: Osterman Research September 2008

IM accounts will grow from 1.8 billion in 2008, to over 3.7 billion by 2012.
Source: Radicati January 2008

In the past year, Instant Messaging vendors have seen a significant shift from enterprises using Public IM to purchasing and deploying Enterprise IM networks with enhanced security and robust administrative control functions.
Source: Radicati January 2008

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2011, IM will be the de facto tool for voice, video and text chat with 95 percent of workers in leading global organisations using it as their primary interface for real-time communications by 2013.
Source: Gartner June 2007

According to Radicati Group the number of IM accounts worldwide will increase from 944 million in 2006 to more than 1.4 billion by 2010. IDC estimates that almost 12 billion instant messages are currently sent every day.
Source: Computing November 2006

IBM Sametime how has amost 16 million users, including 8 out of the top 10 banks and 8 out of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies. And in its next version Sametime is to be linked to public IM networks such as AIM, Yahoo and Google Talk - bridging the gap between secure corporate IM and public IM.
Source: IBM Lotusphere January 2006

General Internet, IT & Comms

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until  2003, according to (Eric Schmidt - Google CEO). That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says. Let me repeat that: we create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003. “The real issue is user-generated content,” Schmidt said. He noted that pictures, instant messages, and tweets all add to this.
Source: TechCrunch August 2010

More than 70 per cent people in the world subscribe to a mobile connection, according to data recently released by telecommunications company Ericsson. The company said that the global mobile phone market totalled five billion users, and was growing at the rate of two million new users every day. The figure of 70 per cent is calculated from data released by the United Nations and US census bureau, which estimates that there are 6.8 billion people on earth. The company reports that the there were just 720 million mobile subscribers just ten years ago. If the market were to continue growing at the current rate and the global population remained unchanged, everyone in the world would become a mobile subscriber within two and a half years.
Source: ITProPortal July 2010

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a non-profit Washington DC-based research organisation, the number of US adults accessing the web from a phone or laptop has risen from 51 per cent in April last year, to 64 per cent in 2010. The report shows that 47 per cent of adults accessing the internet from mobile devices use laptops, while 40 per cent use their mobile phones.
Source: Washington Post July 2010

The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.
Source: Morgan Stanley December 2009

IBM's Institute for Business Value predicts one billion mobile Web users by 2011 and a significant shift in the way the majority of people will interact with the Web over the next decade.
Source: IBM Lotus January 2009

A survey conducted by research firm Gartner found out that more than 85 percent of firms have adopted open source software with the rest to follow suit by next year. The report was conducted across end-user companies in Asia/Pacific, Europe and North American markets back in May and June, before the full force of the current economic turmoil was fully felt.
Source: ITProPortal November 2008

By the end of 2008 there will be 4 billion mobile phone users worldwide. Mobile subscriptions have grown an average 24 percent year-over-year between 2000 and 2008. In 2000 mobile penetration represented 12 percent globally. By early 2008 mobile penetration surpassed the 50 percent mark, and is estimated to reach 61 percent by year end.
Source: ClickZ October 2008

The percentage of Internet users who use search engines on a typical day has increased from about one-third of all users in 2002 to 49 percent. That's according to a search engine use report released by Pew Internet & American Life Project.Search is growing at a faster rate than other activities on the Web, quickly outpacing other information-gathering sources. In the past, news sites were more popular or on equal ground with search. "Search is now taking center stage...whereas e-mail is still primary for communications, search is now primary for information activity," said Susannah Fox, associate director at Pew Internet.
Source: ClickZ August 2008

PCs in use will hit 2 Billion by 2014.
Source: Gartner July 2008

PC's in use nearly hit 1 Billion in 2006. The US had the largest percentage of PCs with 24%.
Source: Computer Industry Almanac September 2007

The Internet reaches 747 million people worldwide. The data is based upon January numbers released by comScore Networks's World Metrix service.The greatest growth over the past year comes from India (33 percent); the Russian Federation (21 percent); and China (20 percent). Online engagement topped an average 27 hours spent each month in the top 10 countries in this grouping. Hours spent was strongest in Canada (39.6 hours); Israel (37.4 hours); and South Korea (34 hours).
Source: ClickZStats March 2007

The worldwide number of Internet users surpassed 1 billion in 2005—up from only 45M in 1995 and 420M in 2000. The 2 billion Internet users milestone is expected in 2011. Much of current and future Internet user growth is coming from populous countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia.
Source: Computer Industry Almanac January 2006

Internet Users By Primary Language:
English 31%
Chinese 13%
Japanese 8%
Spanish 6%
German 6%
French 4%
Korean 3%
Italian 3%
Portuguese 3%
Dutch 2%
Source: Internet World Stats July 2005

Security

It seems that the number of zombie systems on the internet is growing with each passing day as the security firm McAfee alone, since January has been able to detect nearly twelve million computers systems which were hijacked by cyber-criminals.McAfee also mentions that a staggering 50 percent increase in the number of detected zombie computers has been noticed since 2008 and such a large increase in botnets can pose a serious security hazard in future.
Source: ITProPortal May 2009

According to the latest security report published by Symantec, a leading provider of computer security solutions, the frequency of malware attacks in 2008 increased by a striking 200 percent.In its report titled “Symantec Internet Security Report for 2008”, the security firm claims to have logged over 1.6 million new threats signatures which nearly account for 60 percent of all signatures that it has created till date.
Source: ITProPortal April 2009

Research found that 35 per cent of companies do not monitor employees' use of the internet, so would have no idea whether or not they were using social media sites and would not be able to trace the source of any leak on those sites. "It is clear that organisations don't equate employee use of social media sites with potential security breaches, which is a worrying sign," said Clearswift chief executive Jon Lee. "Research has shown that employees, particularly younger employees, are using these Web 2.0 technologies heavily at work, and the risk for potential loss of confidential information via these sites is very real. Organisations need to reassess their security policies and precautions in light of the growing popularity and business use of Web 2.0 technologies," he said. Earlier research by the company unveiled the scale of the use of collaborative websites by workers. A quarter of young office workers in the UK spent more than three hours a week on sites such as YouTube, MySpace or Bebo. It found that 42 per cent of those people discussed work on those sites.
Source: The Register April 2007

The number of malware detections in 2006 increased 172 per cent from 2005, according to research by vendor PandaLabs. Massive infections caused by a single virus have practically disappeared to be replaced by multiple variants now silently infect computers, says the firm's report. 'Users have a false sense of security, believing there are no dangerous threats. The truth is, however, that there is now more malware than ever. PandaLabs detected the same amount of malware last year as in the previous fifteen years combined,' said Luis Corrons, technical director at PandaLabs.
Source: Computing March 2007

Your security is as good as your weakest link,” says Vimal Solanki, a McAfee executive. And unfortunately, a company’s weakest leak is all too often its own employees. He points out that black hat malware writers get a lot of headlines. Companies work constantly to secure the perimeter, knowing that attempts to compromise the firewall are ceaseless. But the enemy is within, too. Employees – however innocently – often create the greatest security problems. Laptops are lost. Emails with sensitive data are accidentally sent. Confidential records walk out the door stored on that fortress-like security device, the iPod. The dangers of unintentional data loss have been understated, Solanki tells eSecurityPlanet. In fact, as much as half of all security issues may be the result of employees’ unintended data loss, he says.
Source: eSecurity Planet February 2007

McAfee took 18 years to reach the point in 2004 where it had 100,000 threats in its protection database. And just two years to reach 200,000 threats.
Source:Clickz Stats July 2006

Interesting Quotes

"While 2009 was certainly a tough year for companies, the integrated collaborative environments submarket remains one of the cornerstones of the collaborative applications market as well as one of its largest segments in terms of revenue," says Erin Traudt, research director of IDC's Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions program. "IDC believes that email will remain a core component of technology portfolios as it continues to evolve from a standalone application to an integrated communications environment that includes functionality such as email, IM, conferencing, voice, and presence as well as social content and community features."
Source: IDC June 2010

In case you haven’t noticed, IBM Lotus not only didn’t go away, it’s here with a vengeance. LotusLive.com claims 18 million users, the 8.5 release of Notes/Domino is a winner in storage savings, Lotus Connections beats other social software platforms on many dimensions, and Sametime’s pushing the envelope on real-time collaboration at a global scale.
Source: Forrester Research December 2009

E-Mail Becomes The Collaboration Console: The Future Of Email Is…Gasp….Lotus Notes?
Source: Gartner 2009 Portal & Collaboration Conference

IT analyst firm Gartner has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the Portal Products and User Interaction Tools enterprise software segment. The ranking was based on total worldwide software revenue for 2008.
Source: IBM June 2009

"Speaking in Geneva about the creation of the WWW, (Tim) Berners-Lee said that the future of the web, as we know it, will lie in mobile phones. Not the current ones but the new breed of smartphones that is currently taking the world by storm. A recent report by Informa Telecoms and Media concluded that nearly 40 percent of mobile phones sold in 2013 will be smartphones, growing by a third each year on average."
Source: ITProPortal March 2009

IBM announced yesterday that its Lotus Software division continued its momentum with an impressive 21 percent growth in the second quarter. This marks the 15th straight quarter where Lotus Software revenues have grown. IBM attributed the growth to the success of Lotus Notes 8, Lotus Symphony, and key wins in the U.S. and emerging markets. Emerging markets played an especially strong role with 18 percent of IBM's overall geographic revenue in the second quarter. This was fueled by huge growth in countries such as India, Brazil, Russia and China. Some strategic wins included Russian Railways in Russia, Affin Bank and Trakando in Singapore, DL Cosco Shipyard in China and Aviva in India. Lotus also snagged its largest Asian customer ever with a 300,000 seat sale of Lotus Notes. This major bank invested in Lotus Notes as well as the free office suite of Lotus Symphony.
Source: Intranet Journal August 2008

"If Lotus can tap into the web 2.0 zeitgeist and harness the present wave of collaboration tools visible on the internet in a way that can be rolled out to corporate customers then it will be the undisputed leader of the next wave of corporate technology. There is no question that companies will be building immense internal knowledge networks in the near future. The only question is how quickly attitudes will change so a corporate social network becomes as essential as email. It won't be long."
Source: Silicon.com January 2008

"Overall, we'd rate the administrative capability of Domino/Notes the most comprehensive, in scale and depth, of the messaging/collaboration products."
IBM Lotus Domino Server is a premier product in a market where only a premiere products can survive as long as it has. We recommend Domino because of certain features — wide platform support, deployment flexibility, strong administrative tools, and software development capability.
Source: ServerWatch January 2007

Design & Change
"…the design of the system is the design of the enterprise; and if the system can't change, the enterprise can't change!"
Source: John Zachman, Founder, Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement

Paranoia
The thing is about paranoids is that sometimes they are right....
Source: The founder of the CIA

Grid Computing
"The internet is moving beyond email, content and e-commerce. It is becoming a true platform, combining the qualities of service of enterprise computing with the ability to share distributed resources across the internet - applications, data, storage, servers and everything in-between."
Source: Irving Wladawsky- Berger IBM Server Group VP of Strategy and Technology

PC Milestone
"The one billionth PC was shipped in April according to Gartner Dataquest. It took 25 years for the milestone to be achieved. The analysts believe the two billionth machine will be shipped in 2008".
Source: Computing July 2002

IBM Lotus Domino

In case you haven’t noticed, IBM Lotus not only didn’t go away, it’s here with a vengeance. LotusLive.com claims 18 million users, the 8.5 release of Notes/Domino is a winner in storage savings, Lotus Connections beats other social software platforms on many dimensions, and Sametime’s pushing the envelope on real-time collaboration at a global scale.
Forrester Research December 2009

E-Mail Becomes The Collaboration Console: The Future Of Email Is…Gasp….Lotus Notes?
Source: Gartner 2009 Portal & Collaboration Conference

More than half of the Fortune Global 100 now use Lotus Notes & Domino
Source IBM Lotus January 2009

"This marks the 15th straight quarter where Lotus Software revenues have grown."
"IBM announced yesterday that its Lotus Software division continued its momentum with an impressive 21 percent growth in the second quarter. This marks the 15th straight quarter where Lotus Software revenues have grown. IBM attributed the growth to the success of Lotus Notes 8, Lotus Symphony, and key wins in the U.S. and emerging markets. Emerging markets played an especially strong role with 18 percent of IBM's overall geographic revenue in the second quarter. This was fueled by huge growth in countries such as India, Brazil, Russia and China. Some strategic wins included Russian Railways in Russia, Affin Bank and Trakando in Singapore, DL Cosco Shipyard in China and Aviva in India. Lotus also snagged its largest Asian customer ever with a 300,000 seat sale of Lotus Notes. This major bank invested in Lotus Notes as well as the free office suite of Lotus Symphony."
Source: Intranet Journal August 2008

IBM Lotus Notes & Domino has won 12,236 customers since the launch of version 8.
Source: IBM Lotus January 2008

"How quickly attitudes will change so a corporate social network becomes as essential as email. It won't be long."
"If Lotus can tap into the web 2.0 zeitgeist and harness the present wave of collaboration tools visible on the internet in a way that can be rolled out to corporate customers then it will be the undisputed leader of the next wave of corporate technology. There is no question that companies will be building immense internal knowledge networks in the near future. The only question is how quickly attitudes will change so a corporate social network becomes as essential as email. It won't be long."
Source: Silicon.com January 2008

"Providing a number of very innovative offerings focused heavily on greater collaborative capabilities"
"One of the more important overall impressions I came away with, however, is that IBM Lotus really seems to be getting traction in terms of how people think about the company. A couple of years ago, one could have made a somewhat arguable case that the company was in defensive mode, attempting to convince people why they should not migrate to another platform. Today, the impression is clearly one of being on the offense and providing a number of very innovative offerings focused heavily on greater collaborative capabilities and a significant move downmarket into the SMB space."
Source: NetworkWorld January 2008

"Overall, we'd rate the administrative capability of Domino/Notes the most comprehensive, in scale and depth, of the messaging/collaboration products."
IBM Lotus Domino Server is a premier product in a market where only a premiere products can survive as long as it has. We recommend Domino because of certain features — wide platform support, deployment flexibility, strong administrative tools, and software development capability.
Source: ServerWatch January 2007

"IBM Lotus a leader in emerging....collaboration contexts"
The first chapter of collaboration competition between IBM and Microsoft was dominated by Lotus Notes/Domino........With the success of Lotusphere 2007, however, IBM Lotus has started the second chapter, with a product strategy and family that successfully exploit historical strengths such as Notes/Domino and WebSphere Portal while also introducing new offerings that are likely to make IBM Lotus a leader in emerging as well as traditional enterprise collaboration contexts.
Source: Collaboration Loop January 2007

IBM Lotus Sametime

In case you haven’t noticed, IBM Lotus not only didn’t go away, it’s here with a vengeance. LotusLive.com claims 18 million users, the 8.5 release of Notes/Domino is a winner in storage savings, Lotus Connections beats other social software platforms on many dimensions, and Sametime’s pushing the envelope on real-time collaboration at a global scale.
Source: Forrester Research December 2009

Frost & Sullivan 2008 North American Enterprise Product Of the Year
Source: Frost & Sullivan

2008 marks the 10th anniversary of Lotus Sametime, and the product's maturity showed in its score -- the highest awarded for the year. Sametime has superior messaging capabilities, a high level of integration with other applications, ease of use, scalability and excellent security. Tester Nance called Sametime "a feature-rich environment for network-based collaboration and conferencing [that is] child's play to use because of its user-oriented conveniences."
Source: NetworkWorld 2008 Best Of The Tests Winners

Lotus Sametime is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a raft of new partnerships and OEM agreements that could significantly increase its installed base. IBM's platform for what it calls UC2, Sametime offers secure integrated, enterprise instant messaging, VoIP, video chats, and Web conferencing capabilities.
Source: eChannel January 2008

IBM Lotus Sametime earned our Clear Choice Award for its superior messaging, high level of integration with other applications, ease of use, scalability and excellent security.
Source: NetworkWorld Review - September 2007

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A List Of Domino Buzzwords & Acronyms

BB
Blackberry

CAL
Client Access License - Lotus' term for the fee charged for an authenticated client to access a Domino server

DECS
Domino Enterprise Connection Services - Domino feature that allows real-time access to relational databases

DES
Domino Extended Search - Detailed searches across both Domino and other data stores across the network

DGW
Domino Global Workbench - Works with Domino Designer to support multiple languages

DIS
Domino Import Services - means to import objects created by web authoring tools into a Domino database

Discovery Server
KM Product that identifies relationships between people, documents and topics, with expertise profiles, search tools, etc.

DL
Distance Learning - term Lotus uses for various products that support education of end-users and personnel

DOLS
Domino Offline Services - enables browsers and MS Outlook clients to work disconnected from the Domino server

Domino.Doc
Lotus' product for document management - creating, revising, publishing, versioning, archiving of any file

DNFS
Domino Network File System - ability to use Domino as a file server from a Windows Workstation

DTO
Domino Translation Object - Original language translator application replace by Lotus Translation Components

DUS
Domino Upgrade Services - Tools included with the Admin Client to migrate users to Domino from other mail systems

EDM
Enterprise Document Management - term to describe corporate policies to manage a document's life cycle

EI
Enterprise Integration - umbrella term for the many methods that can be used to integrate Domino to back end systems

E-workplace
An online collaborative environment that enables greater productivity

iNotes
Lotus' branding for MAPI and HTTP clients (Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator)

J2EE
Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition

KM
Knowledge Management - Industry term that embraces collaboration between people, places and things.

K-Station
Lotus' product for end user portal with knowledge management features

LEI
Lotus Enterprise Integrator - Lotus' product to synchronous Domino with relational databases.

LHMS
Lotus Hosting Management Services - Application for ASPs to host Domino applications.

LMS
Lotus Messaging Switch - product to provide connectivity between multiple vendor mail systems - discontinued

LotusScript
Lotus scripting language that is part of the Domino server, allowing increased function for Domino applications

LRM
Lotus Records Manager - Desktop client that interacts with Domino.Doc

LTC
Lotus Translation Components - latest set of tools to translate from one language to another

LS
LearningSpace - Lotus' product for distance learning including Forum (asynchronous) and Live (synchronous) modules

LSX
LotusScript Extensions - Visual Basic-like APIs to allow communication between Domino and non-Domino objects

MSD
Mobile Services for Domino - umbrella term for wireless access to Domino and Domino applications aka "Mobile Notes"

MTA
Message Transfer Agent - Agent code used to transfer mail between Domino and Internet Mail (replaced by SMTP)

Passport
Lotus' volume purchase agreement for pricing discounts and additional services for customers

QP
QuickPlace - IBM Lotus' product for creating an instant webspace for collaboration on a project. Was called Team Workplace for a while and is now back to being Quickplace again.

SIMPLE
SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions

SIP
Session Initiation Protocol

SMTP
Simple Mail Transport Protocol - protocol used to transfer Domino mail with Internet based mail

ST
SameTime - Lotus' product for instant messaging (chat), application sharing, whiteboard and video conferencing. Was called IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing for a while and is now back to being Sametime again.

WAP
Wireless Access Protocol

Web Services
A collection of emerging standards that simplifies application integration by providing a standard access protocol called SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

WF
WorkFlow - Lotus Domino's ability to add task routing features to an application.