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The number of Internet connections will reach 18.9 billion by 2016, up from 10.3 billion in 2011, driven by a proliferation of smart phones, tablets and other handheld devices, according to an annual survey by Cisco Systems.

The number of connections works out to almost 2.5 for each person on Earth in 2016. India is expected to have the fastest rate of Internet traffic growth, followed by Brazil and South Africa, the survey found.

"More and more mobile devices are coming on the network that are causing this growth," said Doug Webster, a vice president for San Jose's Cisco who discussed the report at a news briefing Wednesday in Washington.

In 2016, the volume of Internet traffic is expected to be measured for the first time in zettabytes - or 1 trillion gigabytes, Webster said.

Traffic that year is expected to reach 1.3 zettabytes, or 110 exabytes per month, almost a fourfold increase from about 31 exabytes per month in 2011, the survey found.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is set for questioning by the Federal Trade Commission as the agency speeds up its antitrust probe of the world's most popular search engine, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Schmidt's deposition is scheduled to take place as soon as next week, one of the people said. FTC investigators are also interviewing two lower-level Google officials this week, another of the people said. The three people declined to be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

A law firm is seeking to withdraw from a New York man's lawsuit claiming half the Facebook holdings of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to Dean Boland, another of the man's lawyers.

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