Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Internet and Technology

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    Zombies and Alter Egos at the FTC

    The Federal Trade Commission’s Spam Summit was an occasion to celebrate the (limited) success of the CAN-SPAM Act and to discuss the latest criminal threats online.

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    Dispatches from China

    If today’s essay on China piques your interest, check out some other dispatches from Deborah Fallows.

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    Spam Summit 2007

    The typical citizen response to discovering that their computer is part of a botnet: “I thought it was running slow recently.”

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    Home Broadband Adoption 2007

    47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.

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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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    Cyberbullying

    About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.