
Moscow: The number of Internet users in Russia increased by 5.4 per cent in 2011 to reach 70 million people, Russian Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev said today. According to him, 55 million of the 70 million are active users. He further said the figure may reach 90 million users in 2013. "The pace has slowed down slightly since 2010 but the audience keeps expanding," Shchegolev said. In 2011, Russia...

04:26 PM, Jan 05, 2012

New Delhi: Internet users in India do not like advertisements mixed with search results and found paid links less useful in regard to the information they were looking for, a study said Wednesday. "Paid advertising getting interspersed with natural search results is not quite what users want," said the study conducted by the CUTS Institute for Regulation & Competition (CIRC). The study which was conducted in Delhi NCR, Mumbai and...

09:20 AM, Nov 17, 2011

Moscow: The number of Russian internet users more than doubled from 10 million to 25 million since August 2009. The growth was mainly due to users from Russian regions, while the share of users from Russia's two largest cities - Moscow and St. Petersburg - fell from 51 per cent to about 40 per cent. The popularity of Microsoft Internet Explorer browser dropped significantly in the reported period, losing 17...

02:42 PM, Sep 24, 2011

Hyderabad: Way2SMS, Hyderabad-based web portal, which offers free messaging from PC to mobile, has disclosed it has reached a milestone of 20 million users. Its platform is managing a massive 365 million mobile contacts and is reaching over 55 million mobiles every month. Way2SMS adds about seven lakh new users to its service every month, said a statement from the portal. "With twenty million registered users, one in every four...

11:12 AM, Sep 15, 2011

Online matrimonial search has become a 'mainline' online activity in India. ...

05:10 PM, Sep 21, 2007

Computer users waste up to two days a month surfing in cyberspace for things they don't need, says one survey. ...

11:37 PM, Apr 10, 2007