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    Home Broadband 2010

    After several years of double digit growth, broadband adoption has slowed dramatically in 2010, but growth among African-Americans jumped well above the national average.

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    Broadband 2010: A Big Slowdown

    Broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010 across a range of demographic groups with African Americans a major exception. But 53% of Americans don’t place a high priority on government efforts to spread high-speed access.

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    Attitudes towards broadband and broadband investment

    Americans are split in their views of how much a lack of access hurts non-users. Americans are split in their views of how much a lack of access hurts non-users. The worst disadvantage they cited related to job opportunities and career-improvement skills. In order to evaluate the importance that Americans place on a high-speed internet […]

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    Trends in broadband adoption

    Background Each spring, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project conducts a survey designed to assess the state of broadband adoption by Americans and, particularly, to probe the attitudes and experiences of those who do not use broadband. Over the last decade, broadband adoption has gone from being the province of the elite […]

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    Older Adults and Social Media

    Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.

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    Broadband Adoption Slows

    Two-thirds of American adults currently use a high-speed internet connection at home, little changed from 2009.

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    The Power of Mobile

    What will happen when the untapped knowledge of every patient, of every caregiver, of everyone who has something of value to share actually has the opportunity to share it?

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    Social Trends and New Devices Garner Greatest Attention from the MSM

    If all the topics covered in technology in the past year are taken together, they fall into a handful of categories. A host of explicit problems—from cyber-security, to privacy concerns, crime incidents and more—made up a nearly third (a combined 32%) of the technology coverage. The combination of stories about social and cultural trends and […]

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    Texting While Driving – The MSM’s Biggest Tech Storyline of the Year

    Within each of the larger topic areas, there were specific news events or storylines, as well. The largest of these, the No. 1 technology story from June 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, was the practice and danger of texting while driving. And the higher amount of coverage of the subject did not stem from […]