One Quarter of Online Americans Have Heard of VoIP
New research from the Pew Internet Project and the New Millennium Research Project shows that 34 million Americans have heard of VoIP and 4 million have considered getting it at home.
New research from the Pew Internet Project and the New Millennium Research Project shows that 34 million Americans have heard of VoIP and 4 million have considered getting it at home.
Men pursue and consume the news online more than women do. The popularity of getting news from the Internet has grown over the years, with additional boosts following major news events like September 11 or the start of the Iraq war. Since 2000, when the Pew Internet & American Life Project began tracking participation in […]
More Internet users are going to e-gov sites than ever. To explore in more detail what Internet users do when they go online for e-government, this survey asked, as the Pew Internet Project has done in the past, whether Internet users had ever looked for information online from a local, state, or federal government Web […]
The composition of the sample Most of the respondents have other jobs in addition to their work as in music. So, the answers reported in this survey come from a poorer and less professional segment of the music community than is often represented in the discussions that have raged around Washington about copyright and downloading. […]
WASHINGTON — The recording industry campaign against those who download and swap music online has made an impact on several major fronts, but the number of Americans downloading music and sharing files online has increased, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Project’s national phone survey of […]
The gap is narrowing, but Americans age 65 and older still lag behind younger generations when it comes to Internet access. In 1996, just 2% of Americans age 65 or older went online.[1. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: April 1996 Biennial Media Consumption Survey. Available at: http://pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/reports/display.php3?ReportID=127] By the year 2000, […]
Wired seniors want to keep up to date, whether that means emailing their children or staying current with the news. Communication tops the agenda for wired seniors – but they generally stick to email. As noted, email is equally popular among Internet users age 65 or older and their younger counterparts. Fully 94% of wired […]
44% of American Internet users have contributed their thoughts and digital content to the online world