Search giant Google is now the largest source of global Internet traffic, taking up six percent of it, according to an article by Information Week. Over 256 exabytes of Internet traffic data were studied over two years in order to produce the report, which was created by Arbor Networks.

The report points out that whilst five years ago, Internet traffic was spread out between thousands of sites, today 60 percent of all Internet traffic is made up of just 100 networks. The report produced by Arbor Networks, but with contributions from the University of Michigan and Merit Networks, shows that peer-to-peer traffic has dropped by 22 percent to a smaller 18 percent, partly due to the rise in popularity of video streaming sites such as Youtube.

HTTP traffic, on the other hand, has seen an almost ten percent boost since 2007, at 52 percent, twenty percent of which is estimated to be video traffic, according to an article by Appfrica.

The report predicts that the cost of data transit will continue to decrease, going from $120/Mbps in 2003 to a predicted $1.20/Mbps in 2014.

Craig Labovitz from Arbor Networks said, "Ten to fifteen years ago it was all about contacting websites, and one of the biggest findings in this report was that there has been a consolidation of websites. Over the past two years larger organisations have been buying up the smaller websites and by July 2009, 30 per cent of the internet was owned by a few large sites."

"This is down to two reasons, the bigger domains on the internet and smaller domains moving into the cloud. This has implications for the user as we are seeing more and more content online while it is getting faster and with better quality."

According to a survey by Junior Achievement, Steve Jobs is the most admired entrepreneur amongst 35 percent of teenagers, with nearly two-thirds of respondents who chose him saying they did so because he has "made a difference in/improved people's lives or made the world a better place."

Eighty-Five percent of those who selected Oprah Winfrey, who came second to Jobs with 25 percent, said they chose her for the same reason.

The survey, carried out by Junior Achievement, an organization that educates students on future employment and entrepreneurship, asked 1000 12-to-17 year-olds to choose who their favourite entrepreneurs were and why. The list of celebrities to choose from focused on those who had started businesses themselves, as opposed to licensing their name.

Perhaps surprisingly, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg came low, with only 10 percent of teens choosing him despite the huge popularity of the social networking website.

In a statement, Jack Kosakowski, president of Junior Achievement USA said, "We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, so it's no surprise that teens admire famous entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey, who have built brands around their personas as well as around their products."

While 33 percent of teens said they chose the Apple co-founder and CEO because of his "success in multiple fields," only 4 percent said they chose him for his wealth and fame.

Last month AMD unleashed what went on to become the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card by a convincing margin, the Radeon HD 5870. This was followed shortly by a slightly watered-down version known as the Radeon HD 5850. The latter has proved to be very competitive, playing second only to its bigger brother and at just $260, it stands without a doubt as the best value high performance offering available at the moment.

Continuing with the successful rollout of its Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD is now moving to attack the sub-$200 market, and hopes to keep the momentum going with the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. Codenamed Juniper XT and Juniper LE, respectively, the first is said to cost just $160, while the lower-end 5750 will cost between $110 and $130 depending on memory configuration.



We've been particularly interested in the ATI Radeon HD 5770, as last generation's Radeon HD 4770 was one of our all time favorite budget graphics cards. Although it came late in the game, its excellent performance and operating efficiency earned it an "Outstanding" mark, making it the top choice in the $100 range. We certainly expect to see these new series live up to those standards.

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Apple has come clear on its return policy for the App Store; don't even think about it. Apple has stated that there will be no returning of an App purchased on the App Store

If you want to try out one of the new navigation programs that can run upwards of $100.00 then you better be willing to part with your money even if you don't like the program. There is only one way to get a refund but don't expect or plan on this method to work. "According to paragraph 12B of Apple's App Store Terms and Conditions, you're entitled to your money back when, ‘On occasion, technical problems may delay or prevent delivery of your product.' Other than that, you're out of luck."

The most annoying part about spending a lot of money on an App is that, unlike a retail product that you could resell on eBay, there is no way to recover your investment if you dislike the App.

Apple claims that there is enough information in the App Store to give buyers a good indication of what to expect with the App they are about to purchase. Apple cites that "Customer Ratings and Reviews, App Store Essentials, Staff Favorites, New & Noteworthy section, Top 100 Free Charts, Top 100 Paid Charts, and Top 100 Grossing Charts" provides enough information to inform the consumer about their purchase.

While some companies do offer free "lite" versions of their applications it is not a given for every App. While other stores from Blackberry and Palm do offer the ability to give timed trials of an application, Apple has yet to allow this practice on its own store.

Many Canadians can now see their homes, streets, points of interest and landmarks on Google Street View. The street level view of the top major cities in Canada has finally gone live, after months of Google cars and cameras roaming the streets, adding the same feature Americans have on Google Maps.

The added street view perspective gives Canadians a detailed image view of the largest cities in Canada, allowing users to take a virtual 360 degree tour of the city. The online virtual tour of cities is available for free on Google Maps, and can be activated by clicking on the icon of the little yellow man when the street preview is available.

Google Street View automatically blurs faces and license plates to protect peoples identity and privacy.

Google only mapped five of the largest provinces in Canada including, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, highlighting selected cities to be covered on Google Maps. Canada now joins some of the other countries featured on Google Maps including United States, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, and Japan.

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