uTorrent, the most popular client BitTorrent, for 2009 has increased its user base nearly doubled. If last year at this time of year uTorrent benefited 28 million people a month, but this year they became 52 million is no less good things are going at "a younger brother» uTorrent, BitTorrent Mainline: its monthly user base has grown from 5 million at the beginning year to 10 million up to November.

Earlier in the outgoing year, some experts have argued that the era of peering and torrentovyh networks is nearing an end, because they are losing the competition with a paid streaming sites. However, the reality presented a surprise: the popularity of BitTorrent for the year jumped sharply, and the traffic, and the number of users.

Erroneous conclusions are based on statistical information of one company, according to which the ratio of peer to peer traffic to total traffic volume decreased slightly. However, if you look at the statistics closely, it is clear that in absolute terms, the traffic continues to grow, aided by the development of broadband networks.

We can safely say that BitTorrent in no case will not die and not even sick. On the contrary, in recent months has increased attendance at all major torrentovyh portals.

Here's what he said in an interview with one of the leading portals in this area TorrentFreak vice president of BitTorrent, Simon Morris (Simon Morris): «Perhaps, the emergence of sites like Hulu and the continuing growth of YouTube shows that BitTorrent is not the only driving force behind the development of consumer broadband networks. But so far there is no indication that torrentovye clients have become less popular. "

Thus, despite high-profile trial of The Pirate Bay, Mininova, isoHunt, and other similar sites, business BitTorrent is alive and well. UTorrent itself continues to grow: recently there was the added support for streaming formats in the next year he will receive a number of functions related to security, and the owners torrentovyh sites will be able to advertise their content directly to the client.

Via TorrentFreak

While the most exciting topic of conversation of physicists from CERN is mysterious and elusive Higgs boson, also known as "God particle", but it seems that the palm can grab another, no less an interesting substance called neytrolino.

Neytrolino – a key element of the theory of supersymmetry, which states that every elementary particle has its counterpart, called superpartners. According to New Scientist, in next year's search for the neutralino may be the main topic of news around the LHC.

One suggestion states that the neutralino may be so, what is called dark matter. According to the source, permanently remove the veil of secrecy from this particle can be over 2010.

Via TechRadar

In 2010, Ford will install a number of models of cars entertainment system Sync with a mobile broadband modem, allowing to establish a secure connection to Wi-Fi. Such a vehicle would constitute a de facto mobile hot-spot, which allows to connect wirelessly with any device supporting this feature, be it a laptop or smartphone.

"As long as you're going to visit grandma, your spouse can make purchases, and children – chat with your friends or sit in Facebook, – painted advantage of the new president of the American car division, Mark Fields Ford (Mark Fields). – At the same time you do not have to pay for ordinary mobile subscriptions and purchase additional equipment because the technology is already available to you by Ford ».

In corporations argue that "the car" the Internet is gaining popularity rapidly: according to a recent poll, one third of American motorists would have access to the Internet from the machine.

Via TechRadar

MTS purchased the main operator Eurotel. The acquisition will increase its own network of MTS (or rather, belongs to her "Comstar UTS") for more than 19 million kilometers. The total length of the backbone networks will be 34.5 million miles. According to Kommersant, the transaction amount was $ 110 million

The acquisition of Eurotel is part of a strategy for the development of MTS networks fourth-generation LTE. In the next three years the company plans to build backbone infrastructure to 60-70 thousand km. However, while this is not enough to closely compete with the leaders: thus, the length of networks Rostelecom is 150 thousand kilometers.

Sama "Eurotel" in 2009 also increased its assets by acquiring "Enifkom. Prior to the sale of MTS "Eurotel" belonged to the former head of Rosnano "Leonid Melamed.

Via Lenta

For the past week Amazon is not without pride summarized Advent sales. First, the "reader» Kindle was among the visitors online store's most popular gift, surpassing even the iPod touch. Secondly, the first time, readers have bought more books in electronic format Kindle, than conventional paper books. Exact statistics Amazon has not.

This achievement can be considered a milestone in the Amazon and the market of electronic books in general. It shows that in the books much faster than the consumer switches to a purely digital, downloadable formats than in the movies and music, where the bulk of sales are still traditional optical discs (although their share gradually started to decline).

Sales of other electronic books, in particular Nook from Barnes & Noble, is also high. According to unofficial sources, as early as next month on the market should see a new player – the Apple Tablet PC, capable of performing the functions of electronic books.

Via Electronista

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