latest trends on net

Online banking has been the fastest growing Internet activity in the U.S. over the last five years, with 53 million Americans, or 44 percent of all U.S. Internet users, now using some form of online banking service as of November 2004, according to a survey conducted by Pew Internet & American Life.
That current U.S. online banking population is more than 3.5 times the number of online bankers Pew measured in March 2000. At that time, only 14 million Americans (17 percent of U.S. Internet users) did banking chores online


The majority of spam mailings received around the world originates from the United States according to software company Sophos. In order to compile their list, company researchers monitored all spam messages that were sent to their network during 2004.
Topping this list was the United States, which is responsible for 42.11% of spam mailings received worldwide. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, had these comments, "When we first reported on the top spamming countries back in February 2004, the USA had the excuse that the CAN-SPAM act had been in existence for a couple of months. Almost a year and millions of spam messages later, it is quite evident that that the CAN-SPAM legislation has made very little headway in damming the flood of spam."
According to Sophos, the top spam producing countries are as follows:
1.) United States - 42.11% 2.) South Korea - 13.43% 3.) China (incl Hong Kong) - 8.44% 4.) Canada - 5.71% 5.) Brazil - 3.34% 6.) Japan - 2.57% 7.) France - 1.37% 8.) Spain - 1.18% 9.) United Kingdom - 1.13% 10.) Germany - 1.03% 11.) Taiwan - 1.00% 12.) Mexico - 0.89% 13.) Others - 17.8%


Research analysts at eMarketer have created a list of the top 10 E-business trends for this year, and most of them define changes in how information is distributed. Near the top of the list is RSS, defined variously, such as Rich Site Summary and Real Simple Syndication....Also, wireless broadband service and content will find its legs, even as it challenges telecommunications companies to handle the heavy loads, senior analyst Noah Elkin says. Streaming video will bring television content. Whether there's consumer demand for this can't be known yet, but Elkin says telcos won't pass up another opportunity to keep buyers glued to their phones


Internet advertising increased by $45 million in October to reaching a total $741.2 million for the month, according to AdZone's Internet Advertising Report. The 6.5 percent gain marked the second consecutive month-over-month increase, and the highest monthly total since April, when online ad spending reached $746.0 million. For the first 10 months of the year, total online ad spend was approximately $7.0 billion.


A report released by VeriSign, highlighting key quarterly market data for domain name activity around the world, shows more than 4.7 million new domain names were registered during the first quarter of 2004-the highest quarterly figure for new domain registrations in the history of the Internet.
The profile reveals that more than 63 million domain names have now been registered, approximately one for every 100 people living in the world today. This number is greater than at any time in the Internet's history, surpassing even the heights that were seen during the Internet "bubble." Moreover, data reveal that the current base of domain names is being utilized more actively than ever before, as measured by renewal rates, look-up rates, and the percentage of domain names tied to live sites