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reportSep 21, 2005

Broadband Adoption in the United States: Growing but Slowing

The growth in home high-speed internet adoption, after growing quickly in the past several years, has slowed down and is poised to slow even further.
reportSep 21, 2005

53% of Americans who go online from home have high-speed, but growth rate of broadband adoption is down substantially from last year

Washington (September 23, 2005) – The growth in home high-speed internet adoption, after growing quickly in the past several years, has slowed down and is poised to slow even further, according to a new report released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. According to the Project’s May 2005 survey, 53% of home internet […]
reportSep 21, 2005

53% of Americans who go online from have high-speed, but growth rate of broadband adoption is down substantially from last year

The growth in home high-speed internet adoption, after growing quickly in the past several years, has slowed down and is poised to slow even further, according to a new report released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
reportSep 9, 2005

Reconnecting to the Network After Katrina

In a natural disaster where most lines of communication have been severed, including telephone, cellular phone, cable and fiber optic, how do 100,000’s of displaced people get access to the internet? Community Technology organizations step into th…
reportSep 7, 2005

Professors and the internet

There is interesting, new research about college faculty use of the internet and their judgment about its impact on their students.
reportSep 7, 2005

Hurricane Katrina: In the face of disaster and chaos, people use the internet to coordinate relief

n the days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region and knocked out cell phone towers and landline telephone service, citizens, local community organizations, government agencies and news outlets turned to the internet as a communi…
reportSep 2, 2005

From the VCR to the Internet—some things never change

There’s the old saw that if you can’t program your VCR (or now maybe DVD or even TIVO?) you should just hand the remote to the nearest child. Recent data collected by the Pew Internet Project suggest that the same is true when it comes to the inte…
reportAug 26, 2005

Firefox Users

Internet users who have Mozilla’s Firefox browser are more likely than other internet users to say they started using a different browser to block unwanted software (like spyware).
reportAug 24, 2005

Teens Who Don’t Use the Internet

Even with an overwhelming majority of teens online, there are about three million youth between ages 12 and 17 who do not use the internet. What about the 13% of teens who aren’t online?
reportAug 22, 2005

Dr. Mom Goes Online

Many parents go online to get information about their kids’ upcoming surgical procedures.

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Broadband Adoption in the United States: Growing but Slowing

53% of Americans who go online from home have high-speed, but growth rate of broadband adoption is down substantially from last year

53% of Americans who go online from have high-speed, but growth rate of broadband adoption is down substantially from last year

Reconnecting to the Network After Katrina

Professors and the internet

Hurricane Katrina: In the face of disaster and chaos, people use the internet to coordinate relief

From the VCR to the Internet—some things never change

Firefox Users

Teens Who Don’t Use the Internet

Dr. Mom Goes Online