One-fifth of the world's population will be connected to the internet in four years time, according to a new piece of research by Jupiter Research that Sneak has been reading. Great; more spam, more zombies, and more Facebook preening to clog our pipes and squeeze our bandwidth.

Apparently, a major contributing factor is going to be take-up in Brazil, Russia India and China – known as the Bric countries. Sneak wonders if the group of countries comprised of Bolivia, Australia, Lithuania, Libya and Sweden will also have a part to play.

28 Jul 2007