Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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Internet and Technology

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    Horrigan on C-SPAN

    John Horrigan, Pew Internet’s Associate Director for Research, on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators”

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    Are “Wired Seniors” Sitting Ducks?

    Older internet users may be easy targets for viruses, spyware and the like. Younger internet users take more chances online, but they also take more precautions.

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    Americans and their cell phones

    Americans say their cell phones aid them during emergencies and fill in their free time. But many also report driving unsafely while on their cells and they say they don’t like the new intrusions and public annoyances cell phones bring to their lives.

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    73% of Americans go online

    A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that 73% of American adults (age 18+) go online to use the internet or email.

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    When the Internet Doesn’t Work

    As many businesses try to push encounters away from the phone and to online tools, it can be annoying when the web sites don’t work as advertised.

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    Teens and technology

    This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today’s teens and twenty-somethings.

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    Blogs and health care

    Blogs are part of the bigger story about dramatic change in people’s information environments. This presentation on health-related blogs focuses on their implication for health providers in communicating with patients and caregivers.