Counting Internet Users
In our surveys this summer, we added a question about mobile internet connectivity to help us capture internet users who may access the internet on mobile devices.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
In our surveys this summer, we added a question about mobile internet connectivity to help us capture internet users who may access the internet on mobile devices.
Nearly a quarter of Egyptians (23%) say they have used social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to obtain news about their country’s political situation.
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Nearly half (47%) of American adults get at least some local news and information via their smartphones or tablet computers.
A quarter of smartphone users go online mostly using their mobile device.
Young adults are just as likely to check their email as their Facebook account on a typical day; older adults still favor email.
While cell phone ownership remained stable, usage of eight cell phone applications grew significantly over the past year among cell owners.
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That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.
That’s the percent of internet users who have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. In other words, one-third of internet users, either with a laptop computer, a handheld personal digital assistant (PDA), or cell phone, have surfed the internet or checked email using means such as WiFi broadband or cell phone networks
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