The Mobile Difference
Wireless connectivity has drawn many users more deeply into digital life.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Wireless connectivity has drawn many users more deeply into digital life.
There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have…
Half (48%) of tech users need help from others in getting new devices and services to work, and many experience tech outages when there is a glitch with their home internet connection, computer, or cell phone. Coping with these failures is a hassle f…
Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. Online users who take advantage of cloud applications say they like the co…
62% of all Americans are part of a wireless, mobile population that participates in digital activities away from home or work.
There is a demographically diverse group of Americans who already take advantage of mobile acess to data and information. With “cloud computing” on the horizon as the next evolution in mobile access, the make-up of the population of mobile users offe…
47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.
Some 34% of internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else.
Twice as many Americans used the internet as their primary source of news about the 2006 campaign compared with the most recent mid-term election in 2002.
Fully 87% of online users have at one time used the internet to carry out research on a scientific topic or concept.
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