Pew Internet and American Life
For those of us who worry about spending too much of our work and free time connected to the World Wide Web, this may sound incredible: of the 15 percent of American adults who are usually offline, the largest percentage of them shun the internet because they don't find it relevant to their lives.
A new Pew study shows some delay for broadband internet access for Latinos, but also a possible solution.
Despite posting a record quarterly operating profit, Samsung is in some trouble with investors this week, after failing to meet expectations. HTC and RIM has disappointed as well. The problem for these companies, say analysts, is that the high-end smartphone market may be saturated - meaning that the real problem is that smartphone companies have had tunnel vision.
On July 3, the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which tracks social trends about the internet and technology, released a study focused purely on the social news and viral website Reddit. The study found, among other things, that a significantly higher proportion of Hispanics use Reddit, compared with White and Black Non-Hispanics.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a study on Wednesday confirming what seemed to be an inevitability in modern American life: more Americans own smartphones than do not. Of those surveyed, about 56 percent overall could be classified as smartphone owners, and when the study was broken down into demographics, Hispanics helped lead the trend with 60 percent smartphone ownership.
