ZDNet UK


Skip to Main Content

ZDNet.co.uk - Winner of Best Business Website 2007
  1. Home
  2. News
  3. Blogs
  4. Reviews
  5. Jobs
  6. Resources
  7. Community
  8. My ZDNet

 

ZDNet UK RSS Feeds


Online business Toolkit

Story: Net users bypass browser

  • Previous comment

Posted by: John Walsh (Friday 9 January 2004, 11:26 AM)

  • Reply

Bogus reporting - the Nielsen//NetRatings figures indicate that 75 per cent of web surfers ALSO use apps other than browsers (i.e. NOT that use of other Internet apps is ‘dwarfing’ the use of web browsers). The key to the Nielsen//NetRatings story (which, admittedly, is a little ambiguous) is the figure of 3 hours average usage per month for non-browser apps.

  • Previous comment

  • Reply to this comment
  • Return to story
  • Report this as offensive


Full Talkback thread


Sentry Posts Blog

Nasa and the virus

Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity. OK, it's a nice silly season story on the surface, but what really got me was... More

3 comments

Customer data found on eBay server hig...

The recent news about customer details being retrieved from a server sold on eBay is yet another story about the sorry state of information security in the electronic age (see: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/...m).... More

Post a comment

Does it matter if you are an aardvark...

In spam terms, apparently it does. According to Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, if your email address is aardvark at animal.net, you are more likely to receive... More

5 comments