Zombies and Alter Egos at the FTC
The Federal Trade Commission’s Spam Summit was an occasion to celebrate the (limited) success of the CAN-SPAM Act and to discuss the latest criminal threats online.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Internet and Technology
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Dispatches from China
If today’s essay on China piques your interest, check out some other dispatches from Deborah Fallows.
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Spam Summit 2007
The typical citizen response to discovering that their computer is part of a botnet: “I thought it was running slow recently.”
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Broadband Adoption in 2007
47% of adult Americans have a home broadband connection as of early 2007
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Home Broadband Adoption 2007
47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.
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Libraries, Older Adults & Technology
Older adults are less likely than younger adults to go online, but there are exceptions — those who “feel” and “do” younger than their chronological age.
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Cyberbullying
About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.
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Public Policy and The Future of the Internet
What forces will shape the internet in the next decade?
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Broadband, Cell Phones, and the Continuing Reality of the Grey Gap
Older adults are still the least likely group to have basic internet access and broadband access at home. However, information specialists can design outreach plans that are targeted at certain groups dominated by people age 50+.
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The Internet Circa 1998
In 1998, 57% of non-internet users said they worry “not at all” about missing out on something by not going online.