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| Thread ID: 105687 | 2009-12-10 21:59:00 | More Than 450 Million Served - Watch This Space | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 838538 | 2009-12-10 21:59:00 | * Forty years ago, two computers on the ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet, communicated for the first time. Today, reports research outfit IDC (click1.newsletters.siliconvalley.com yvjmyqlql.html), there are more than 450 million mobile devices connecting to the Net. Just mobile devices. And over the next four years, IDC figures, that number will be more than a billion. "The number of mobile devices with Internet access has simply exploded over the last several years," said John Gantz, chief research officer at IDC. The number of TOTAL devices hooked to the Net (phones, computers, game consoles, etc.) is now about 1.6 billion, says IDC, and will rise to 2.7 billion by 2013. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 838539 | 2009-12-10 22:48:00 | I would have expected more lol. Thats not really that many total devices considering the earths population of 6.8 billion. But compared to forty years ago thats a HUGE increase. I have 7 devices here at home (thats the entire household). Then there are all of the work and school computers. I know my school has over 130 desktops and then most teachers have a laptop. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 838540 | 2009-12-10 23:01:00 | I would have expected more lol. Thats not really that many total devices considering the earths population of 6.8 billion. But compared to forty years ago thats a HUGE increase. I have 7 devices here at home (thats the entire household). Then there are all of the work and school computers. I know Ummm----------------- Maybe they didn't count New Zealand. It's kinda an easy place to miss on the map, what with that big overshadowing island to the west and all. Most people think it's inhabited solely by penguins anyway. I know that doesn't answer the Marmite question - after all, where does it all go? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 838541 | 2009-12-11 04:07:00 | Thank god for NAT. Bring on IPv6 over 3G. Hell, just IPv6 even! |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 838542 | 2009-12-11 19:16:00 | Just give us an alternative international pipe and things would leap up in speed, and down in price. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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