Day archives: December 11th, 2011

Brookings – Ten Facts about Mobile Broadband

Ten Facts about Mobile Broadband, Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies – December 08, 2011. The Brookings Institution “Mobile broadband is reshaping society, communications, and the global economy. With smart phone usage surpassing that of personal computers, there has been a sea change in the way consumers access and share information.Powerful mobile …

Subjects: Internet

Eurostat regional yearbook 2011

Eurostat regional yearbook 2011: “Statistical information is an important tool for understanding and quantifying the impact of political decisions on the citizens in a specific territory or region. The Eurostat regional yearbook 2011 gives a detailed picture of a large number of statistical fields in the 27 Member States of the European Union, as well …

Subjects: Government Documents

BIS Quarterly Review December 2011 – International banking and financial market developments

BIS Quarterly Review December 2011 – International banking and financial market developments “News on the euro area sovereign debt crisis drove most developments in global financial markets between early September and the beginning of December. Amid ratings downgrades and political uncertainty, market participants demanded higher yields on Italian and Spanish government debt. Meanwhile, difficulties in …

Subjects: Government Documents

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer – Which Web Browser is Most Secured?

“Accuvant LABS has just released some new research that compares the security of three of the most widely used web browsers – Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Google commissioned Accuvant to perform this comprehensive and independently designed security analysis to help advance the discussion of best practices in the security community. Our …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Search Engines

Mercer's 2011 Quality of Living ranking highlight – Global

Mercer Quality of Living Survey – Worldwide Rankings, 2011 “In 2011, the world continued to experience instability due to the enduring economic crisis. Economic uncertainty helped provoke social and political unrest of varying degrees in many urban areas. Protests and strikes in numerous North American and Western European cities have been largely peaceful. But violence …

Subjects: Government Documents

The 2011 Fortune 500 and Social Media Adoption: Have America's Largest Companies Reached a Social Media Plateau?

The 2011 Fortune 500 and Social Media Adoption: Have America’s Largest Companies Reached a Social Media Plateau? Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. and Justina Andonian – Center for Marketing Research, Charlton College of Business, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “One hundred and fourteen (23%) of the primary corporations listed on the 2011 F500 have a public-facing corporate …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Commerce, Internet

Report – Going Global: Chinese Oil and Mining Companies and the Governance of Resource Wealth

Going Global: Chinese Oil and Mining Companies and the Governance of Resource Wealth, Jill Shankleman, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars “The paper covers four topics: The structure of the Chinese oil and mining industries, focusing on overseas operations; the emergence over the last ten years within the large-scale, OECD-based extractive industry, of a “new …

Subjects: Government Documents