traffic

China reportedly rerouting search traffic

News Reports have surfaced that China is redirecting traffic from foreign search engines operated by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, to home-grown Baidu. Blog site TechCrunch reported that traffic to Google's blog search engine was being rerouted to Baidu.

Tags: engine, engines, yahoo, google

22 October 2007, 10:36

iPlayer gets Christmas traffic boost

News The BBC's iPlayer Web site saw a 14-fold increase in traffic during the Christmas period. December 2007 to 5 January 2008 visits to the site rocketed following its full marketing launch on Christmas Day, according to Web traffic monitoring company...

Tags: cent, windows vista, streaming, traffic

11 January 2008, 9:47

See motorway traffic-jam clips on your mobile

News She added: "You'll be able to check real-time traffic conditions on the busiest parts of our network from the convenience of your mobile phone. UK drivers will be able to download video footage from Highways Agency CCTV cameras onto their mobile...

12 January 2006, 9:56

News.blog: Google traffic lights up world

News In a post that comes close to bridging the gap between virtual and physical reality, O'Reilly Radar points to a 'hypnotic' view of a world map that illustrates a single day's traffic on Google. As a few observers note, the pulsating chart bears...

6 September 2006, 10:06

Web 2.0 sites enjoy traffic explosion

News Sites championing user-generated content have seen a significant leap in traffic on the period a year ago, according to statistics from research company comScore -- and several are now among the top 50 UK Web property rankings.

13 September 2006, 10:32

News.blog: Facebook surpasses MySpace traffic

News New numbers from metrics firm ComScore show that in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed longtime rival MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time.

Tags: visitors, myspace, facebook, silicon valley

24 June 2008, 9:56

Online video viewing stats triple in UK

News UK traffic to online video Web sites has roughly tripled in the last year, according to the Internet monitor Hitwise. There are also further reasons to suspect that the figures do not give the full picture of the increase in traffic to online video...

Tags: rate, youtube, traffic, category

28 March 2008, 9:04

Hate commuting? It's RFID to the rescue

News A traffic system from IBM has reduced Stockholm rush-hour congestion by 25 per cent in a month, and Big Blue says it wants to take it to cities around the world. After only one month, the peak-hour traffic was reduced by 25 per cent, or 100,000 cars.

7 March 2006, 9:22

Rover hopes to avoid jams with Trafficmaster

News UK car manufacturer MG Rover has signed up Trafficmaster to provide a traffic alert system which will help drivers of its cars avoid traffic jams and congestion. Traffic Alert will be fitted as standard in all new Rover 25 and Rover 45 models...

22 October 2002, 11:30

What is your Wi-Fi saying about you?

News Simply booting up a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop can tell people sniffing wireless network traffic a lot about your computer and about you. There are many tools that let anyone listen in on wireless network traffic.

2 March 2007, 9:24

Will Vista jam the Net?

News Vista may cause an increase in DNS traffic, but not to the extent predicted by Mockapetris, Microsoft countered in a statement provided to CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com last week. But experts disagree over whether we're heading for a prime-time...

7 September 2006, 10:40

iTunes fans keep Apple at the top

News Traffic-reporting service Nielsen/NetRatings said that traffic to Apple.com rose from 19.6 million unique visitors in November 2004 to 30.8 million last month -- a 57 per cent jump. The number of visitors to online search engine Google climbed by...

21 December 2005, 10:16

Vista P2P feature exposes beta machines

News The traffic was coming from computers on the Internet that, as far as the testers knew, were not supposed to be communicating with the beta machines. After installing the first beta release of the upcoming Windows client, some testers noticed...

19 August 2005, 10:32

GPS tech trialled on Swindon buses

News Initially the technology will be used on around 90 buses, at 50 bus stops and at 20 traffic-light junctions on one of the main bus routes through the Wiltshire town, although the system will have capacity for it to be expanded to up to 500 buses...

23 January 2007, 9:56

P2P users travelling mainly by eDonkey

News Last year, British company CacheLogic said BitTorrent -- a peer-to-peer technology optimised for downloading large files -- was accounting for more than half of all the file-swapping traffic on Internet service provider networks around the world.

30 August 2005, 10:11