2/3 of college students would rather have an internet connection than a car

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Source:  Taken from Cisco's World Technology Report, September 2011
Press release here
Methodology - 1,400 college students aged 18-23 & 1400 young professionals under 30.
The survey was translated into local languages and fielded in 14 countries to gain approximately
100 completes for each subgroup in each country
Countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Italy,
Russia, India, China, Japan, Australia

18% of internet users access solely through a mobile connection

"Mobile is increasingly the primary platform for internet access, according to today’s Global Consumer Survey (GCS) report from MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce.
Based on research conducted among over 8,000 respondents in nine countries across five continents, the MEF GCS found that 72% access the mobile internet on a daily basis with 18% no longer using fixed line internet access whatsoever. In each individual market, the number of consumers accessing the mobile internet daily is higher than the number accessing fixed-line internet."

Source:  Research by the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)'s Global Consumer Survey, reported in a press release, 12th October 2011

See an extract here

The markets surveyed were:  Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, UK & US

The top 10 handsets for mobile web browsing in India

"Top handsets for May 2011 (since May 2010)
Nokia 2690 (10)
Nokia 5130 XpressMusic (1)
Nokia 2700c (2)
Nokia X2 (new)
Nokia 2730c (6)
Nokia C1 (new)
Nokia 3110c (3)
Nokia 5233 (new)
Nokia 7210 Supernova (7)
Nokia 6300 (5)"
Source:  Opera's State of the Mobile Web, May 2011, published 29th June 2011
Note - data relates to the top handsets by usage for those using Opera's mobile browser

TV viewing figures for the Royal Wedding around the world

"The Royal Wedding was one of the best watched UK TV broadcasts of all time, even though its ratings were only marginally higher than an Only Fools and Horses special.
Some 26.2 million viewers watched Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot across BBC1, ITV1, BBC News channel, Sky News and Sky Living.
That is shy of the 28.4 million that watched Prince Charles and Lady Diana’s wedding in 1981 but higher than the Only Fools Christmas special from 1996, which clocked up 24.4 million.
Most UK viewers by far watched the Royal Wedding on the BBC. Its coverage, hosted by Huw Edwards, beat ITV's by three to one with a peak audience of 19.3 million.
Before the wedding some newspapers made ambitious predictions that it would be watched by as many as two billion people around the globe - almost a third of the world's population.
[...]
The Nielsen Company said that an average of 22.7 million viewers at home in the United States watched the wedding live.
While that figure is not to be sniffed at (especially so because many viewers would have had to get up in the middle of the night or very early morning to tune in) it is not a patch on the giant audiences networks in the US can command.
To put it into context, February's Super Bowl, the most watched single broadcast in US history, drew a US audience of 111 million.
In India, 42.1 million tuned into Friday's ceremony according to the ratings agency aMap. But again the country's interest in the Royals pales in comparison to its love for sport.
As the Times of India reports, this year's cricket World Cup final attracted an audience of almost 67 million, more than one-and-a-half times the peak Indian viewership of the Royal Wedding."

Source:  The Drum, 2nd May 2011

The mobile version of ESPNCricInfo accounted for 45% of all of the site's page views on the day of the Cricket World Cup Final

"ESPN says the mobile version of its ESPNcricinfo site accounted for 45 percent (45 million) of all the brand’s page views during the April 2 final, in which India beat Pakistan. That’s the highest share of any of the digital media through which ESPN covered the sport, and doesn’t even include the app versions of ESPNcricinfo.
It’s significant that mobile use outweighed desktop use. ESPN claims ESPNcricinfo’s mobile site took 63.6 percent of the global mobile audience in its industry segment - far outweighing the 36.1 percent share ESPNcricinfo claims it took in the desktop web market.
That effect came from Indians, who supplied the largest slice of mobile traffic to ESPNcricinfo (377.3 million page views through the tournament). There are around 700 million mobile phones in use in India - nearly the entire population of 1.15 billion. Many of the handsets are unsophisticated, but broadcasters nevertheless supply subscription audio content. In neighbouring Pakistan, BBC Urdu offered five, two-minute World Cup audio reports every hour for on-demand listening by dial-up during the competition."
Source:  ContentSutra, 11th April 2011

An estimated 1 billion TV viewers watched India play Pakistan in the Semi Final of the Cricket World Cup

"It’s estimated that a television audience of more than a billion people watched India play Pakistan in the semi-final of the world cup of cricket. To put that in perspective, around 0.7 billion people tuned in for the final of the last football world cup in South Africa.
At stake, in sporting terms, was the chance to contest the world cup final against regional neighbours Sri Lanka. India won as it happens, by 29 runs for those who understand cricket. But even for those who don’t have the slightest idea what the sport is, the match is still of great significance.
This is the first time either country has hosted the other in a cricket match since the Mumbai attacks perpetrated by Pakistani-based militants. Relations between India and Pakistan, tense at the best of times, have been at a new low ever since."

Source:  EuroNews, 30th March 2011
Note - No source quoted for where the estimates actually come from

Orkut has 52m members

"Over 52 million active users worldwide
Over 34 billion pageviews each month
Average user visits the site 26 times each month, spending over 8 minutes per visit
Source: comScore Media Metrics, 2010, as reported by Orkut
Also:  site demographics - 51% of the membership is from Brazil, 20% from India, 18% from the US.
Also:
"Photos and scraps continue to be strong features, and over the last month, we’ve hit a few records. On Christmas Eve, users shared 93 milion scraps, an all-time high, and on January 3rd after New Years, users viewed 1.6 billion photos, which is almost 19,000 photo views a second. For context, YouTube crossed the 1 billion video view mark in October 2009, and crossed the 2 billion mark in May of last year."

Source:  Orkut blog, 26th January 2011 (on the occasion of their 7th birthday)