World’s population less than Web addresses

Internet is growing in dimensions every second, so much so that there are more addresses than there are people on Earth.The number of web pages at “over 1 trillion”, while Google had earlier indexed more than one trillion discreet web addresses.

The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion, which means that there are about 150 web addresses per person in the world.
And this could mean that if a person spent just one minute reading every website in existence, then he or she would be kept busy for 31,000 years, without any sleep.

An average person would need 600, 000 decades of non-stop reading to read through the information.Approximately 1.46 billion people worldwide now use the internet which represents a solid 16 per cent increase from the previous year’s estimate (1.26 billion in 2007).

The largest Internet population belongs to China, with 338 million users online, which are more than there were people in the US.However InternetWorldStats.com (IWS), a website that combines multiple data sources, has claimed that China’s online population is more like 298 million.

With the rates of India and China still quite low, there is sufficient room for growth in the coming decade.
But, measuring the online population could be tricky-there are servers, users, per capita numbers and penetration percentages to evaluate.And thus it is difficult to find a single figure to represent the world online population.

IWS combined data from the UN’s International Telecommunications Union, Nielsen Online, GFK and US Census Bureau, and its latest global figures puts the number of internet users in the world at 1,596,270,108.

And this is just 23.8 per cent of the estimated 6, 0706,993,152 people in the world. But it changes every day.In terms of the future, we anticipate mobile to contribute significantly to internet usage.

According to IWS, the top 5 countries with the most internet users are:
1 – China (298,000,000 users, or 22.4 percent of their population)
2 – US (227,190,989, or 74.7 percent)
3 – Japan (94,000,000, or 73.8 percent)
4 – India (81,000,000, or 7.1 percent)
5 – Brazil (67,510,400, or 34.4% percent)

Angelina has planned to adopt an India child

Angelina Jolie is believed to have told Azharuddin Mohammed, child actor of Slumdog Millionaire, that she may soon adopt a child from India.At previous month’s Oscars, the ten-year-old asked the actress if she planned to adopt an Indian soul.

She reportedly replied: “Well, I’ll let you into a little secret, we will soon.”

She met Azharuddin and Rubina Ali, at backstage in Los Angeles after Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars.

According to viewers, Jolie was very impressed by the pair and talked freely with them.

The 33-year-old actress and her partner/actor Brad Pitt already have three adopted kids: Maddox, eight, from Cambodia; Pax, five, from Vietnam and Zahara, four, from Ethiopia.

They also have three biological kids – Shiloh, two, and eight-month-old twins Vivienne and Knox.

Nano to be useful in this recession perioe

Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata is all set to start on the Nano, the 4-seater, 100,000-rupee price tag super-cheap car for the masses, on Monday.

Expressed as ‘people’s car’ by Ratan Tata, customers can look forward to own a car at a price between Rs.1.20lakh and Rs.1.30lakh, depending on the version of Nano.

The Nano would come in three versions — standard and two deluxe models with air conditioning.

After the launch in Mumbai, Nano would be displayed at the company’s dealerships from the first week of April, while the bookings would start from the following week. The booking amount is fixed at Rs.70,000.

Only 50,000 cars will be presented in the first year from Tata facilities in Pune and Pantnagar. Tata is waiting for the 250,000-unit capacity in Gujarat to come on-stream to meet public demand for the vehicle.

Tata Motors Ltd moved in its mega low-cost Nano car to Sanand in Gujarat following violent protests at Singur in West Bengal.

The car was discloseed in January 2008. It was planned to go on sale last October, but problems with the main plant location delayed the launch.

Ratan Tata said on Monday that the bookings for Tata Nano would remain open from 9 April to 25 April and the delivery will start in July.

The minimum down payment would be Rs.2, 999 for Nano, which would come in three models.
The ex-showroom price of the base model would be Rs.1lakh.

The relevance forms will be available for Rs.300 at 30,000 locations across 1,000 cities, he said.
In the initial stage, one lakh applicants would be allotted for the cars randomly and there would not be given any interest on their booking money, he said.

The company would however pay 8.5 per cent interest to applicants who d exclusive on’t feature among the first one lakh buyers.

Tata Motors has entered into limited banking tie-up with SBI in 850 cities. On the Singur land, Ratan Tata said that the company has not yet decided what to do with it.

The total Nano project has been pegged at Rs.2, 000crore, he said, adding that it would be too early to say when the project will break even.

Its Sanand plant in Gujarat is likely to start operations at the end of this year.
Tata Motors also said that a redesigned Nano could hit the US markets after two and half years.

Samsung plants films on your phone

Samsung has started on a new service considered to put movies on customers’ cell phones…and it’s got releases from major Hollywood studios ready to roll.

Looking to cash in on consumers’ need to be able to contact any manner of media from their mobile phones, Samsung has taken the wraps off a public beta version of Samsung Movies, a new service that facilitates users to buy or rent movies and television episodes for their mobile phones. The service features both current and library titles from major Hollywood studios (Warner Bros., Paramount, and Universal are on board); Samsung movies currently offers over 500 titles, and plans to offer 1,000 by the end of the first quarter of 2009, and 2,000 titles by the end of June.

Samsung is launching the service in the UK and Germany, and plans to extend the service to other European markets during 2009. The service is based on technology from the privately-owned movie retailer Acetrax, which has inked the distribution deals with the movie studios. Samsung is the first company to take Acetrax’s service to a global market. The service is currently only accessible for Samsung’s Tocco Ultra Edition (S8300) phone, but the company will support more devices soon. Users download the movies and television shows to their PCs, then sync them to their mobile device. The service uses Windows Media DRM.

A 24-hour movie rental is priced at £2.49 (about $3.50); movies can be purchased for £4.99 (about $7).

Samsung says it plans to inflate the service to include music gifts, as well as to enable notebook computer users and owners of Samsung TV’s to tap into the service.

Whether the world needs another iTunes competitor remains to be seen, but by focusing first on the mobile market rather than PCs, Samsung opens up another front of competition with the likes of Nokia, which offers a bevy of content services for mobile users.

There’s no word on whether Samsung plans to bring the service to the North American market.