Items tagged with census

by Ray Willington - Sat, Mar 30, 2013

2020 Census Will Use Internet And Smartphones

Remember when encyclopedia sets were sold as genuine hard-backed books, with folks walking door to door to sign you up for the year's latest and greatest edition? Man, those were the days. And soon, we'll be saying the same about the census. According to a new report, the Census Bureau will conduct the 2020 census via the Internet. A trial... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Sat, Oct 13, 2007

Internet Gets First Census in 25 years - So?

The Internet hasn't had a census done in 25 years. At that time only 315 IP addresses were surveyed. Scientists have re-run the census, pinging 2.8 billion IP addresses.Due to security settings on some servers, about 61% of the pings received no response at all, and others received responses equivalent to "no comment". Millions... Read more...

by Harry Lo - Thu, Jun 28, 2007

First Game Developer Census Published

Recently CMP Game Group, a market research company that focuses on the professional game industry, compiled a census report on nearly 600 companies in North America. CMP has determined that there are over 39,000 professional developers and publishers of games in the U.S., and over 8,000 in Canada. A whopping 46% of professional game developers... Read more...