iOS continues to outpace Android in generating Web traffic in the U.S., says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. [Read more]
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iOS ups lead over Android in Web traffic, says analyst
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on May 7, 2013
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Apple iPad maintains strong Web traffic lead lead over Samsung Galaxy Tabs
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on April 27, 2013
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Samsung is second to Apple in tablet sales and coming on strong, though Samsung Galaxy Tab users remain well behind iPad users in how much they use the Web.
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Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic
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on April 16, 2013
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Google's placement of its own flight-finding service in search results is resulting in lower click-through rates for companies that have not bought advertising, according to a study by Harvard University academics.
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Verizon’s CEO says video accounts for half of its traffic
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on April 11, 2013
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Verizon‘s CEO attended the National Association of Broadcasters conference, stating yesterday that half of Verizon Wireless’s traffic is from videos, a number that is expected to continually increase over the next several years, eventually accounting for about 2/3rds of it. He then went on to discuss a conversation he had with the late Steve Jobs
Judge rules traffic cameras violate motorists’ rights
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on March 10, 2013
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A judge in Ohio ruled that the traffic cameras located in Elmwood Place, Ohio are a violation of the motorists’ rights. Judge Robert Ruehlman stated that the entire system is a scam. Many drivers and business owners believed that the cameras were too harsh and that they were becoming detrimental to the village’s image. The
Community Site Topix Sees 40 Percent Year-Over-Year Traffic Growth As Political Focus Pays Off
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on March 8, 2013
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Topix, a site for locally-focused online discussion that first launched in 2004, has seen significant traffic growth in the past year. According to CEO Chris Tolles, that’s because of the big bet that the site made on political coverage and discussion.
Traffic grew 40 percent between December 2011 and December 2012, the company says, and there were 12.4 million unique visitors in January. Those visitors are spending an average of 11.5 minutes on the site each month, and a lot of that activity is coming from smartphones — in fact, the comapny says that more than half its traffic is mobile.
Tablets surpass smartphones in driving global Web traffic
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on March 8, 2013
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For devices that hit the market just three years ago, they’re doing pretty good, generating 8 percent of all Internet traffic. [Read more]
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TomTom partners with Fiat and Toyota to deliver in-dash navigation and traffic reports
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If you’re a GPS company, one way to keep the smartphone feature creep at bay is to strike deals with car manufacturers, and bake your wares into their vehicles. TomTom has done particularly good securing these partnerships and Fiat is just the latest company to sign on the dotted line. Its navigation software will be built into the Uconnect Radio Nav systems found in the 500L series from the Italian car marker. It will eventually roll out to other vehicles and Fiat brands, but there was no timeline given. TomTom also inked a deal with Toyota’s European arm to put TomTom HD Traffic in any vehicle packing a Touch&GO in-dash device. For more, check out the PR after the break.
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Mobile Traffic, Connections, and Network Speeds—Oh My!
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on February 28, 2013
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The latest Mobile Operator Industry report contains some interesting stats highlighting the explosive growth of the mobile Web.
The GSMA, which is a mobile operator industry group, released a beefy report this week on the state of the mobile economy that is nicely designed and, more importantly, chock-full of interesting tidbits.
Technology that can beat the traffic
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on February 6, 2013
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Why Australian Telco’s Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won’t Work
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on February 5, 2013
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New submitter oztechmuse writes “Australian Telco Telstra is planning to trial shaping some BitTorrent traffic during peak hours. Like all other telcos worldwide, they are facing increasing traffic with a long tail of users: 20% of users consume 80% of bandwidth. The problem is, telcos in Australia are already shaping BitTorrent traffic as a study by Measurement Lab has shown and traffic use continues to increase. Also, the 20% of broadband users consuming the most content will just find a different way of accessing the content and so overall traffic is unlikely to be reduced.”
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AT&T experiences record mobile traffic usage during the Super Bowl
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on February 5, 2013
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The power outage during the Super Bowl was a good thing for both AT&T and the 49ers, it would seem, with the carrier experiencing the highest-ever mobile traffic usage figures in-stadium. A total of 78GB of data was used within the Superdome during the half-time show, an 80-percent increase over 2012. The number jumps to
Cuba acknowledges ‘tests’ of its 1st undersea fiber-optic link for Internet traffic
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on January 25, 2013
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Cuba turns on submarine internet cable, but just for one-way traffic
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on January 21, 2013
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A change in Internet traffic patterns over the past week suggests that Cuba may have turned on a fibre-optic submarine cable that links it to the global Internet via Venezuela, according to Internet routing analysis company Renesys.
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French Telecom Claims To Have Forced Google To Pay For Traffic
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on January 20, 2013
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Dupple writes “The head of French telecoms operator Orange said on Wednesday it had been able to impose a deal on Google to compensate it for the vast amounts of traffic sent across its networks. Orange CEO Stephane Richard said on France’s BFM Business TV that with 230 million clients and areas where Google could not get around its network, it had been able to reach a ‘balance of forces’ with the Internet search giant. Richard declined to cite the figure Google had paid Orange, but said the situation showed the importance of reaching a critical size in business. Network operators have been fuming for years that Google, with its search engine and YouTube video service, generates huge amounts of traffic but does not compensate them for using their networks. An editorial piece at GigaOm says Google is abandoning its principles and giving Orange ‘the incentive to demand the same from other content providers.’”
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EU Antitrust Chief: Google “Diverting Traffic” & Will Be Forced To Change
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on January 11, 2013
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Dupple writes “It looks like the EU is coming close to a decision regarding its investigation of Google. While saying he’s ‘still investigating,’ the head of the European Union’s antitrust regulatory body has said that he’s convinced Google is ‘diverting traffic’ and that it will be forced to change its results. From the article: ‘Despite the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s move earlier this month to let off Google with a slap on the wrist — albeit, a change to its business practices, a move that financially wouldn’t dent Google in the short term but something any company would seek to avoid — the European Commission is looking to take a somewhat different approach: take its time, and then hit the company hard.’”
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Library Web sites see boost in mobile traffic
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on January 1, 2013
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Tech companies aren’t the only ones that should invest in mobile. Study finds mobile users accessed library Web sites twice as much this year compared with 2009. [Read more]
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Retail sites see 27 percent traffic jump on Christmas Day
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on December 28, 2012
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Visits to the top 500 online retail sites are up compared with the same period last year, and Amazon seems to be taking the cake. [Read more]
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Wells Fargo's website buckles under flood of traffic
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on December 21, 2012
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Well Fargo urged its customers on Thursday to visit bank branches or use telephone banking due to continuing problems with its website.
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Red-light traffic cameras have drivers seeing red
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on December 5, 2012
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Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times
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on November 29, 2012
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First time accepted submitter ChanukahZombie writes “The City of Calgary, AB has introduced a new traffic congestion/timing information platform for drivers. ‘The system collects the publicly available data from Bluetooths to estimate the travel time and congestion between points along those roads and displays the information on overhead message boards to motorists.’ Currently only available on the Deerfoot Trail (the city’s main highway artery) but will be ‘expanded in the future to include sections of Crowchild Trail and Glenmore Trail in the southwest.’ As for privacy concerns the city says it cannot connect the MAC address collected to the device owner.”
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Like Mobile Shopping, Mobile Games Traffic Surges Worldwide During Thanksgiving Holiday
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on November 27, 2012
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Americans weren’t just buying things online during last week’s holiday. According to new numbers from Chartboost, they were also glued to their mobile devices playing games, with those types of mobile software titles experiencing surges in traffic, as measured by sessions per day, and also with cost per install (CPI) going up outside the U.S., but experiencing a small dip within the country.
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IBM: Thanksgiving Sales Data Shows Mobile Commerce Jumping, iPhone/iPad Driving 19% Of Traffic, Social Nets Only 0.2%
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on November 23, 2012
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ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $ 42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM’s Benchmark service – an ongoing measurement that covers some 500 of the largest online retailers in the U.S. — indicate that consumers are getting a head start today. Online sales, it says, are already up by 14.3% on last year, with the average order at $ 132.57. IBM also highlighted a particularly strong showing in mobile commerce.
Apple’s North American Mobile Web Traffic Surges Following iPhone 5 Launch
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on November 1, 2012
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Apple’s share of mobile web traffic rose 5.96 percent between September and October, thanks no doubt to the introduction of the iPhone 5, and likely also helped by the shipping of the 4th generation iPod touch. Apple controlled 65.38 percent of the traffic advertising network and research firm Chitika saw across the millions of devices, and Samsung gave up the most ground.
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iPhone 5 overtakes Galaxy S III in mobile web traffic
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on October 15, 2012
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Apple’s iPhone 5 has been out for only a few weeks, while Samsung’s Galaxy S III has been available for months now. Mobile advertising network and research firm Chitika has said that mobile web traffic on the iPhone 5 has already surpassed web traffic on the Galaxy S III by 12 percentage points. Chitika conducted
Traffic And Trip Updates Now Available For Enterprise Customers Through Google Maps API
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on October 5, 2012
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One of the coolest features that you can get from Google is the capability to see on a map and time it the time it will take to get to a destination either by walking, bike, car or mass transit based on traffic conditions.
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Bots Make Up Ten Percent of Online Traffic, Study Says
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on September 28, 2012
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A 20-month study finds that bots impersonating humans are a growing concern for web advertisers.
Web publishers and platforms count on accurately measuring traffic in order to sell ads, but that model is being undermined by an army of ‘bots that make comments, click on links, and participate in online promotions, according to a study from Solve Media. AdWeek provides some details:
VEVO: 40B Videos Watched Globally In The Last Year, Mobile Traffic Doubled In Q2 To 1.3B Streams
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on September 11, 2012
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Back in March, VEVO rolled out a huge new redesign, which saw the major-label-owned music video giant add continuous playback and beef up its personalization and social features. Thanks to tight new integration with Facebook’s Open Graph, VEVO quickly saw a big increase in the number of videos watched and shared via the social network. Simultaneously, the company has been making a serious push on mobile and recently began rolling out its new features across redesigned mobile apps.
In fact, mobile continues to be VEVO’s fastest growing platform, the company said today in its Q2 viewership report, with 18 million mobile and tablet apps downloaded to date — up 146 percent from Q2 2011.
Is a Google Nexus 7 with 3G joining the traffic jam of tablets?
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on September 3, 2012
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A Nexus 7 with 3G connectivity would make sense, expanding the reach of Google’s tablet beyond Wi-Fi hotspots.
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Scientists investigating AI-based traffic control, so we can only blame the jams on ourselves
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on August 27, 2012
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Ever found yourself stuck at the lights convinced that whatever is controlling these things is just trying to test your patience, and that you could do a better job? Well, turns out you might — at least partly — be right. Researchers at the University of Southampton have just revealed that they are investigating the use of artificial intelligence-based traffic lights, with the hope that it could be used in next-generation road signals. The research uses video games and simulations to asses different traffic control systems, and apparently us humans do a pretty good job. The team at Southampton hope that they will be to emulate this human-like approach with new “machine learning” software. With cars already being tested out with WiFi, mobile connectivity and GPS on board for accident prevention, a system such as this could certainly have a lot of data to tap into. There’s no indication as to when we might see a real world trial, but at least we’re reminded, for once, that as a race we’re not quite able to be replaced by robotic overlords entirely.
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Samsung Galaxy S III’s share of Web traffic surges
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on August 9, 2012
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III has won stellar reviews and reportedly sold more than 10 million units in early sales.
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Google Maps adds live traffic for over 130 cities, boosts existing coverage
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on August 7, 2012
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Google has expanded its Maps traffic coverage before, but rarely on a grand scale. The search giant isn’t standing on tradition this time: it just flipped on live traffic data for at least the major roads in over 130 cities. Most of the coverage centers around smaller cities in the US, although Google is tipping its hat to Latin America with first-time support for Bogota, San Jose (in Costa Rica) and Panama City. Coverage has also been improved in a dozen other countries worldwide. While the widened reach still won’t ease the burden of anyone already caught in a traffic jam, any democratization of smarter driving directions is good in our book.
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Google Maps Now Features Real-Time Traffic Info For 130 Additional U.S. Cities
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on August 7, 2012
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Google just launched live traffic info for Bogota (Colombia), San Jose (Costa Rica) and Panama City (Panama). In addition, Google is also bringing its real-time traffic data to 130 smaller cities in the U.S., including Kalamazoo (Michigan), Portland (Maine) and Tuscaloosa (Alabama). For the most part, this feature relies on data Google gets from Google Maps and Google Navigation users who share location data with the company. As Android becomes more popular and as more users use their phones for directions as they are driving, Google obviously gets more data. Thanks to this, it can now show live traffic for side roads and arterial roads that don’t typically see as much traffic as a highway or major urban area, for example.
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Get a Magellan GPS with lifetime maps and traffic for $59.98
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on August 1, 2012
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This 4.3-inch model is refurbished, but it’s also one of the best deals I’ve seen on a navigator with lifetime everything.
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An App that Could Stop Traffic
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on July 25, 2012
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US political convention sites brace for flood of mobile traffic
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on July 10, 2012
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Weeks before the U.S. Republican and Democratic national conventions that will anoint each party's nominee for president, special equipment to boost cellular signals in each party's venues is already nearly installed.
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Greenway Wants To Put An End To Traffic Jams
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on July 8, 2012
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Traffic jams are annoying, but they are also responsible for extra CO2 emissions and plenty of wasted productivity. Greenway, Germany’s entry into Microsoft’s 10th Imagine Cup student technology competition in Sydney this week, wants to do nothing less than put an end to traffic jams. To do so, the three-person team has developed a mobile app, which is basically a very smart turn-by-turn navigation system, and a cloud-based routing and tracking service that ensures that drivers use streets as efficiently as possible. Ideally, the Greenway team says, its app can cut driving times during peak traffic hours by half. What’s cool about the service isn’t the impressive underlying technology, though, but also the team’s innovative business model.
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Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems
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on July 1, 2012
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vu1986 writes “Boston won the opportunity to pick the brains of six IBM engineers — including one from Tokyo — who flew in to check out its traffic situation and figure out a way to consolidate, analyze and use existing traffic data feeds as well as new data sources including (of course) Twitter feeds, to ease the city’s notorious traffic jams.”
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Nook passes Fire in Web traffic in June
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on June 15, 2012
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The Barnes & Noble Nook tablet’s Web traffic overtook that of the Kindle Fire for the first time in early June, while Apple’s iPad maintained its overall dominance of the market, according to Chitika, an online ad network and data analytics firm.
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Thanks to YouTube, Netflix and Facebook, IPv6 Traffic Hits New Heights On IPv6 Launch Day
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on June 7, 2012
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You probably didn’t notice, but yesterday was IPv6 Launch Day and thanks to support from major sites like YouTube, Netflix and others, it was quite a success. In 2011, a number of leading websites, ISPs and home router equipment manufacturers came together to test the successor of IPv4. This time around, the organizers were not just trying to get participants to test their systems but to fully deploy IPv6 on their services. Given the ever-shrinking numbers of available IPv4 addresses, moving to IPv6 is a necessity, but the move to the new protocol has been rather slow.
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Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic?
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on May 21, 2012
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First time accepted submitter Shalmendo writes “My client needs to monitor traffic on his LAN, particularly going out to the internet. This will include websites like Facebook, Myspace, and similar, including from mobile devices. So far, based on the network education I have, I’ve concluded that it might be best to get a tap (And some kind of recording system with wireshark, probably a mini-barebone), or replace the existing Linksys router with a custom built mini barebone system with linux routing software and appropriate storage capacity etc to record traffic internally. (either way it looks like I will need to put together a mini barebone system for some purpose) My client is trying to protect his family from scammers and other unsavory types, and isn’t savvy in this matter, so i’m doing it for him. What I need is a way to record the traffic at a singular point, like modem/router areas, or similar, and a way to scrape out Facebook, Myspace, and other messages. It also appears that the client’s family is using iPhones and some game called ‘words’ which has message capability. Is it possible to scrape messages out of that game’s packets, or are they obfuscated? Can I write a script? What software would you recommend? Linux routing OS? Can we sniff packets and drop them on the internal hard drive? or would a tap be better? How do I analyze and sort the data afterwards? my client needs easily read evidence (Such as text or screenshots) he can use as proof in discussion with his family to try and intercede in any potentially harmful transactions. In other words, how can I Achieve this goal? I have basic and medium training in computer networking, so I can make my own cables and such, but I’ve never worked on this exact kind of project before, and thought it might be better to query slashdot instead of do my own research from scratch. After days of discussion with the client, it’s not plausible to put monitoring software in the devices on the network (due to legal issues and a few other factors), so I concluded a network tap or other device would be the best way to capture and study what’s going on.”
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Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic
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on May 14, 2012
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TheGift73 writes “The Russian based ‘Pirate Pay’ startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Their first project, carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads. Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business. Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the Russian based startup ‘Pirate Pay’ has its way. The company has developed a technology which allows them to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible for people to share files.”
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RIM teams up with TomTom to bring HD Traffic to BlackBerry devices
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on May 8, 2012
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Looks like executive switches aren’t the only thing happening at Research in Motion this morning. Earlier today, the Canadian company announced a partnership with TomTom that will see the GPS outfit’s HD Traffic service make its way onto BlackBerry devices. Essentially, this means a handful of BlackBerry applications such as Traffic, Maps and Locate Services will now be powered by TomTom’s offering — a feature we’ve previously seen on iOS and even your browser. Notably, RIM says developers are going to have access to “mapping and traffic” for use within their own apps, which is bound to make a few of you some Berry happy campers. Hey, at least RIM’s making an effort.
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Honda tech hopes to reduce traffic congestion
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on April 30, 2012
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The self-driving car has been shown off by both Google and GM, and while Honda hasn’t quite made the full jump, the company is working on predictive technology. Honda’s new technology can analyze driving patterns, as well as surrounding traffic, in order to determine if the driver is going to add even more confusion to
Frogger Synchronized To Real-Life Traffic
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on April 22, 2012
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Cerlyn writes “In order to celebrate 30 years of Frogger, Tyler DeAngelo and his friends created a version of Frogger synchronized to actual vehicles on 5th Avenue in New York City. Unlike a previous (dangerous) attempt at recreating the game, this version fits safely inside of a Frogger arcade cabinet, and pictures and videos of the construction of the game are available as well.” (Just scroll down that first link to see the construction details.)
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The power of physics didn’t help with a $200 traffic ticket
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on April 21, 2012
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Amazon’s Cloud Now 1% of Internet Traffic
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on April 18, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “A Wired story claims Amazon’s cloud now hosts enough companies and traffic to generate 1% of all Internet traffic (and visits from 1/3 of daily Internet users). An amazing number if its true. And a little scary for one company to host this much cloud infrastructure.”
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How to escape a $400 traffic ticket with the power of physics
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on April 16, 2012
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The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws
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on April 15, 2012
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New submitter HeLLFiRe1151 sends this quote from Physics Central:
“Here’s a practical application for your physics education: using math to successfully beat a traffic ticket in court. Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist based at the University of California San Diego, did just that to avoid paying a fee for (purportedly) running a stop sign. Krioukov not only proved his innocence, but he also posted a paper detailing his argument online (PDF) on the arXiv server.”
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OMGPOP Draws Zynga’s Daily User Traffic Up By 25%
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on April 1, 2012
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As the dust settles after Zynga’s purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape. A 25% larger and more mobile one. That’s the percentage growth of its total daily active user base, when you add in the 14.6 million people playing mobile sketching app Draw Something to its existing 55 million players.
The game has gone from 1.7 million to 14.6 over the month of March, based on app tracking service AppData. Today, it’s nearly the combined size of Zynga’s two biggest hits on Facebook, CityVille and Texas Hold’em Poker.
Which means Draw Something’s share of the market is likely to grow in the coming months. CityVille was launched at the end of 2010, and Poker years before. Zynga has milked them along, and will no doubt continuing doing so far into the future. But, they’re never likely to grow significantly beyond their current sizes, based on the overall lifecycle of these games.
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