Apple's iTunes Sells 25 Billion Songs

Cisco recently unveiled its Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, a rather long-winded title for a white paper. But don’t let its wordy head mislead you. Within its pages are some giddying data, forecasts, and conclusions that can send any geek’s heart to Nirvana, or something that resembles it in the geek world.

 

Anyway, according to Cisco, there were 36 million tablets connected to the mobile network in 2012. This figure was 2.5 times larger than that of the previous year. Data also revealed that each tablet generated 2.4 times more traffic than your average smartphone.

 

Along with this increase in number of connected mobile devices, mobile Internet traffic worldwide also increased 70 percent in 2012, almost double that of the previous year. Currently, mobile Internet traffic is 12 times bigger than the whole Internet worldwide way back in 2000.

Going Ape Over the iPad. Firefox Phones Are Coming

Isn't it tragically funny or funnily tragic that some people in China, and most likely in a lot of other countries as well, are willing to give up a kidney or two, or some other internal organs, just to own an iPad?

But even more tragic or funnier is the news that the Smithsonian's National Zoo has gifted the orangutans under its care with an iPad each.

Such a piece of news could either give you some laughing fits or make you really angry, especially if you are among us who cannot just afford an iPad yet.

I wonder what the humane societies would have to say about this. What if those apes wanted a Google Nexus 7 instead or perhaps a Microsoft Surface RT?

Should somebody be suing the Smithsonian's zoo for committing acts of cruelty against helpless animals?

Firefox Phones

Mozilla announced the Keon and Peak, the first handsets that run the organization's HTML5-based Firefox mobile operating system.

The first handsets running Mozilla's HTML5-based Firefox mobile OS are coming.

Developed in partnership with Geekphone and Telefonica, Keon and Peak are not full-retail models. Instead, the units are designed for developers interested in building and testing apps for the Firefox mobile OS.