ComScore, the global Internet Information provider has released Internet usage stats for December 2008 according to which total number of Internet users have surpassed 1 billion which makes more than 15% of the global population. Out of these 1 billion users, the top 10 countries according to number of Internet users are:

China
180 million

United States
163 million

Japan
60 [...]

A DNS server resolves domain names into IP address by looking up DNS tables. A DNS server is usually provided by your ISP. Before contacting the destination you type in your browser’s address bar, it is first resolved to IP address by your DNS Server.
A slow DNS server may impact your browsing speed to a [...]

PicLens – the popular extension for Firefox and IE that lets you search and view videos and images from popular websites like Flickr, Google Image Search, YouTube, PhotoBucket, Picasa and others with some nice 3D effects has released version 1.7 with these updates.