Using the Internet to talk on the phone has really started to take off, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports. A quarter of US adults Internet users have made phone calls online now (19% of all US adults), up from 8% (and 6%) in 2007. Now, 5% of US Internet users make calls online "on any given day," Pew says, up from 2% in 2007. This was the first year in Pew's ongoing study of Net … [Read more...] about Making calls online is taking off in US: Study
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Views of Net users young & old: Studies
Lots of international (individual and family) Internet-user data has been released via various studies this past week, courtesy of Symantec, Google, Yahoo, and Skype. Symantec's Norton Online Living Report was very family-oriented, having gathered the views of 9,000 adults and young people in 12 countries! Some interesting findings NetworkWorld led with were that "one in five children admitted … [Read more...] about Views of Net users young & old: Studies