Do you have any idea which company dominates the web it comes to online statistics? Is it really Facebook or Google? If that is what you think, you are misled. According to recent figures from comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, Microsoft is the true winner. Microsoft has captured 15% of the time spent online in September alone. This percentage is based on a global scale. 15% is equivalent to 3.9billion hours. Out of the total 27 billion hours spent online, this figure is already very substantial.

Do you ever wonder how much data is present in the World Wide Web? Maybe you’ll be shocked to know that its 487 billion gigabytes, nearly 500 billion GB. That’s a lot, right?! Imagine having a 19 billion pieces of fully-loaded Blu-ray DVDs, that how big Internet data is today. Another comparison that would make you visualize are printed and bound books stacked from the Earth to Pluto. And think of that stack stretching 10 times. And that doesn’t stop there. As more and more people takes an interest in the Internet, this amount of data is still expected to grow double every 18 months, that’s according to a study done by research consultancy IDC and sponsor EMC.

What have you been keying in on the Yahoo search? For sure celebrities is one of them; Britney Spears perhaps? If that is so, you helped in making her No. 1 on Yahoo’s list of top 10 overall searches! 2008 is a great year for Britney. As we have observed she’s making a huge progress and the change in her is just great so, it’s natural for people to be interested in knowing what the latest about her is. FYI, she’s been Yahoo’s No. 1 for seven years now.

Next to Britney is WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) which has been on the No. 2 spot for three years in a row. No. 3 placer is new President-elect Barack Obama. It’s really interesting to see that from being a relative new comer on the national scene, he became the new president-elect. Taker of No. 4 spot is Miley Cyrus. She’s a new entry to the Yahoo list. No. 5 is the multi-player role-playing game RuneScape.

Here’s the rest of Yahoo’s top 10 list:

Everything is good in moderation, especially the internet! I mean had it not been for the internet you could not be reading this article. But in all honesty 5 hours a day spent online is a bit of a waste! You may be wondering who exactly spends such excessive time on the internet. Well the answer is 38% of the Saudi Arabian population according to a recent study!

Its hard to think that people go on reproducing without actually realizing what the implications of this is! According to specialists the population of the Earth will hit 7 billion by 2012! That is only four years from now! And what is worrying about this all is that this increase in population comes at a time when we have not discovered a way of growing sustainably. What this means is we are going to be increasing the pressure on our already fragile planet by nearly a billion in four years!

If you are an internet addict, you’re probably aware that two of the closely competing networking sites are Facebook and MySpace. And maybe you are wondering which of them is the most popular. The latest survey done by metrics firm ComScore show that Facebook’s popularity has surpassed MySpace. For the month of May, Facebook had 123.9 million unique visitors while MySpace only had 114.6. Moreover, Facebook had more page views than MySpace. The former had 50.6 billion while the latter had 45.6 billion only.

Back in April Facebook went ahead of MySpace by only a hair’s breadth. Unfortunately, MySpace was not able to recover. Maybe it will be downhill for them from now on. What do you think?

If you have ever been to Egypt you will have been stunned by the sheer number of people who have Broadband which is quite an expensive service everywhere! However, we Egyptians are caring beings and believe in loving our neighbours so households share internet connections and split the cost. This socially acceptable ‘fad’ was recently proven by the ‘Egypt Households Telecoms and Media Survey Report 2008'. The survey basically showed that nearly 1 million households in Egypt have access to ADSL which is great news for a somewhat ‘developing company’.

Well everything goes in the UAE or so they say, we saw number plates being sold for millions before and now a camel has been bought for the equivalent to $2.7 million! Those of you who are camel enthusiasts –if they indeed exist- will know of a beauty pageant strictly for camels that occurs in Abu Dhabi offering prizes for the best of the breed.

To be honest although many have argued that the quality of Egyptian cinema is deteriorating, it appears that the public always know whose movies are worth watching and those movies come up on top. In this season of movies Ahmed El Saka’s movie ‘El Gezeera’ (The Island) has taken first place with ticket sales worth a whopping 222,740,00 E.P in Egypt alone after 13 weeks of being in cinemas. Not too far behind was Kareem Abdel Aziz’s ‘Khareg An El Kanoon’ (Outlaw) which made 191,170,00 E.P. Controversy is a movie maker’s best friend they say and ‘Heena Maysara’ which takes third place in the Egyptian Box office saw a lot of controversy regarding the presence of homosexual scenes, the movie made 169,030,00 E.P.

Would you feel sorry for Bill Gates now that he’s no longer the richest bloke in the world? It’s true he’s no longer the richest man according to Forbes’s 22nd annual ranking. The list includes so many names, so we’ll only focus on the top 5 to make things easy to remember. Let’s take it from the top. Holding the most coveted number one is Warren Edward Buffet from the United States of America. This man has $60.0 billion dollars in his name. A lot of people in the investment world know of this man since Buffet is an investor who owns the firms Fruit of the Loom and ice cream Dairy Queen. He is considered as the most beloved investor in America. Even though he is the son of a politician, Warren Edward Buffet delivered newspapers as a boy. He strived to make his business as good as it is today that is why he is now richer than his friend Bill Gates.