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    Home Broadband 2008

    Some 55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007.

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    Degrees of Access

    New “thermometer” charts show degrees of access to the internet and cell phones among various demographic groups.

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    Information Searches That Solve Problems

    There are several major findings in this report. One is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and resources.

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    Internet Cafes in Rural China

    In China, the internet cafe has overtaken the workplace as the second most popular place after their own homes for internet users to go online. Most of the increase in internet café use is in rural areas.

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    Poor and Elderly E-patients

    This just in: “The Internet appears to be a double-edged sword, assisting in the search for health care information for the poor and elderly while magnifying existing gaps based on other factors.”

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    Closing the Broadband Divide

    When you look at the data on Americans without broadband at home, it suggests it will take time to get these holdouts off the digital sidelines.

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    Libraries, Older Adults & Technology

    Older adults are less likely than younger adults to go online, but there are exceptions — those who “feel” and “do” younger than their chronological age.

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    Don’t Blame Me: It’s the Phone’s Fault!

    Pew Internet’s typology of information and communications technology users tells us a lot about how far along we are — or aren’t — in the "information society."

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