Internet 2009
From CSI Wiki Farm
- Both Microsoft BING and Google estimate the Internet to now be 15 billion pages in size, there are over 681 Million hosts online as of July
- It is reported that mobile data traffic exceeded voice traffic every single month of 2009.
- January 14, Steve Jobs goes on medical leave from Apple.
- March, AT&T announced that U-verse had expanded to 100 or more high-definition channels in every U-Verse TV market.
- November 12, TDS TV® (IPTV) catches NFL Network; launched new service at midnight. Customers in Farragut and Mt. Juliet, Tenn. who subscribe to TDS TV® can now watch the NFL network 24X7.
- Hewlett-Packard acquires 3Com Corporation, a leading provider of networking switching, routing and security solutions. HP's strategy builds on the convergence of servers, storage, networking, management, facilities and services.
- Hewlett-Packard receives the prestigious IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing award for its HP-35 scientific calculator. Introduced in 1972, the HP-35 was the world's first handheld-sized scientific calculator, standing apart from its peers, which could only perform four basic functions – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
- Cisco hits another major product milestone and enters a new market in 2009 with the introduction of the Unified Computing System (UCS). UCS combines servers, switching, virtualization and storage access in an integrated system designed to unify the disparate elements of a data center. It marks Cisco's entry into the blade server market and essentially the end of its longtime partnerships with HP and IBM.
- Cisco is added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a listing of 30 major stocks selected to reflect the overall U.S. stock market. The listing is an indication of Cisco's influence on the overall economy, not just in technology. In 25 years, Cisco went from being a startup to a dominant presence in enterprise networking with annual revenue of $40 billion and a market capitalization of $132 billion (in 2009).
- Microsoft launches Windows Azure for cloud.
- Facebook turns cash-flow positive for the first time.
- Google introduces the arrival of browser based cloud enterprise applications, with the best known being Google Apps.
- Globally, it is estimated that mobile traffic accounts for more than an exabyte (a billion gigabytes) for the first time.
- As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Nortel sold its Enterprise Networking equipment and software business to Avaya. The sale included a few remaining Bay Networks products that were still active in Nortel's portfolio at the time of the sale, such as the Ethernet Switch 450 and Backbone Concentrator Node (BCN) router.
- April, eBay announced it would be making Skype an independent company again in 2010
- October, Juniper introduces Junos Trio chipset and revolutionary 3D scaling technology with launch of MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers.
- The first pictures of the US Airways Flight 1549actually appear on Twitter
US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River
- When Iran's presidential election is followed by a media and information crackdown; opposition groups use Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to communicate to the outside world leading to the worldwide viewing of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan.
Neda Agha-Soltan was 26 years old when she was killed in Tehran, Iran on 20 June 2009 - Orbitz, Continental Airlines, Ticketmaster, Pizza Hut, Movietickets.com, eHarmony, Hertz, and Live Nation were among 80 companies paid to help dupe their own customers into joining loyalty programs, the government reported in 2009. After making secret pacts with marketers, such as Webloyalty, Affinion, and Vertrue, the e-tailers presented buyers with what appeared to be an offer of free goods or services. Tucked into the fine print, however, were terms that said by providing an email address, a customer agreed to join a loyalty program and allowed one of the marketers to charge their credit card about $20 every month. A former employee of Webloyalty said such charges were known in the industry as a "stupid tax." If you fell for it, you were stupid.
A news report about the Webloyalty scam.
- East Africa gets its first broadband connection to the Internet
- Huawei delivered one of the world’s first LTE/EPC commercial networks for TeliaSonera in Oslo, Norway. The company launched the world's first end-to-end 100G solution from routers to transmission system to help meet the rapid growth of network traffic and enhance router efficiency and reliability.
- DNSSEC becomes operational on .gov (28 Feb), .org (2 Jun), .us (15 Dec)
- .tel registrations begin
- VMware announced the acquisition of SpringSource, a leader in enterprise and web application development and management. The acquisition is seen by the industry as a strategic move of VMware to become a leader in offering platform as a service (PaaS). The acquisition also resulted in the expansion of VMware's education services portfolio by the inclusion of SpringSource University and its authorized training partner, SpringPeople Technologies.
- US Department of Commerce relaxes control over ICANN, in favor of a multi-national oversight group
- Domain tasting gets severely curtailed after ICANN raises the 2008-introduced fee for erroneously registered domains from $0.20 to $6.95; domain kiting however conitnues
- Twitter is asked by the US Government to delay planned maintenance of its service on 15 June as a result of heavy use by Iranian users during unrest in that country
- .se domains become unreachable for an hour on 12 Oct after an incorrectly configured software update modifies all registrations
- ICANN opens up applications for internationalized domain names (16 Nov)
- Emerging Technologies: Location awareness
- Marvell announced that the SheevaPlug, a small, competitive, low-power, SoC-based ARM architecture computer, would be released with full schematics.
- US$1M+ Domain Sales: Insure.com (16M in Oct), Toys.com (5.1M in Feb), Candy.com (3M), Fly.com (1.76M)
- RFC 5513: IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms
- RFC 5514: IPv6 over Social Networks
- Windows 7 is released in October 2009, laptops are outselling desktop PCs and it’s common to get online at public wireless hotspots like coffee shops. Wireless networks can be created at the office or at home. Windows 7 includes many features, such as new ways to work with windows—Snap, Peek, and Shake. Windows Touch makes its debut, enabling you to use your fingers to browse the web, flip through photos, and open files and folders. You can stream music, videos, and photos from your PC to a stereo or TV. By the fall of 2010, Windows 7 is selling seven copies a second—the fastest-selling operating system in history. Windows 7 is evaluated by 8 million beta testers worldwide before it's released.
Windows 7 - By the numbers:
- 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009, 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day, 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide, 100 million – New email users since the year before, 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam, 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
- 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009, 47 million – Added websites in 2009.
- 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009), 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
- 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia.
- 418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
- 252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
- 179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
- 67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa.
- 57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East.
- 20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
- 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse), 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
- 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009), 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States, 4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
- 350 million – People on Facebook, 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day, 500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.
- 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day, 12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009), 924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009), 182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA), 82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA)
