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¿Qué hace la gente en línea en el mundo de hoy, ¿cómo obtienen en línea, y en lo que acelera? Un nuevo informe de la Guía Internacional de Empresas muestra cómo cómo millones de personas en el mundo acceden a la internet, donde el internet es el más rápido, y los dispositivos con los que se conectan, tras el primer año, cuando hay dispositivos de Internet móviles más que los humanos.

Ver esta infografía para ver qué regiones lideran el mundo en términos de las tasas de acceso a Internet, que consume lo que en línea y los sitios web más populares de la región.

Did you know that there are 92K plus articles posted on the internet with 1.19 Billion+ engaged minutes every single day? In other words, 1,194,902,462 engaged minutes is roughly 10 seconds per every person on earth or 2273 years of time.

Second screen viewing, which refers to using an additional electronic device while watching television, is a widespread consumer behavior that has quickly become the norm.

In an attempt to better understand this trend, Viaccess-Orca has analyzed second screen usage amongst diverse populations of television viewers. The results, which appear in this infographic, demonstrate the extent to which second screen viewing is altering the TV industry. According to our data, 70% of tablet owners, and 68% of smartphone owners, state that they use their additional devices while watching TV.

However, only 37% of those who practice second screen viewing do so in order to look up information that is related to the program they are watching. Most TV viewers use their devices in order to check emails or visit a social network...

Data and information from Citrix about mobile trends shows us we’re not the only ones growing increasingly attached to our mobile devices.

Whether it’s a personal, social or business setting, people are using their smartphones in more places and ways than ever before and the increasing speed of smartphones encourages us to rely on them more often. As the data here shows, we share more phone habits than we might have thought.

Every year, in every continent around the globe, more people are using social media to interact. Nearly 1 in 4 people in the world now use social networks.

By 2016, eMarketer predicts that 2.55 billion people worldwide will use social networks. Top areas of growth? India, Indonesia, Mexico, China and Brazil.

Wishpond has put together an infographic featuring data on worldwide social-network use. Check it out to find out what parts of the world are likely to see the greatest growth.

A showcase of the best infographics from around the web (Internet Users By Region – How Much Of The World Is Online?

A look at the current statistics of worldwide internet usage.

It wasn’t malicious. The file itself was the size of a small JPEG. It was given the absolute lowest priority. And it was set to self-destruct if anything went wrong. But this small file allowed one single hacker to measure the Internet activity of nearly half a million connected devices around the world, then share the results with everyone.

How was this even possible? The "hacker" barely hacked anything. In reality, they gained access to all these systems because each had the default "root" set as a password. With this access in hand, they ran several tests focusing on Internet structure and activity. And what they created from all this data is a spectacular map that captures a day in the life of the Internet (and all of its users).