Tag archive: Pew Internet & American Life Project

A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that donating to charities via mobile phone text messaging is becoming increasingly common, with nine percent of American adults now making charitable donations via text messages, with the amounts appearing on their mobile phone bills. However, what may be the most significant finding for charities looking to raise money: folks who donate via text message tend to be more… Read More

As the world continues adjusting to new technologies and social norms change at a rate on par with Moore’s Law, sociologists and pollsters have had a plethora of interesting data to examine. A new study from Pew Internet has shed some startling, if not somewhat humorous light on how Americans adults are using their cell phones. (Only 17 percent are without the device today.) The survey of 2,277 adults found that 13 percent of cell phone users… Read More

A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that some 65 percent of U.S. Internet users have opened up their wallets and paid for online content, whether that be music, videos, software, games, or other items. However, although there are some big spender who skew the numbers a bit, most online content buyers spend on the order of $10 per month—the equivalent of just a few cups of coffee. However, that so many… Read More

These days, the mobile industry seems focused on little more than mobile phone apps, as enormous numbers of companies and developers seek to monetize mobile Internet capabilities and increasingly sophisticated devices by offering programs, games, utilities, and Internet-based add-ons for phones. However, a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that only 29 percent of U.S. adults have downloaded apps to their… Read More

A new survey of American's mobile technology use from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 59 percent of American adults go online wirelessly, with about half (47 percent) going online using Wi-Fi or mobile broadband cards with a notebook or laptop computer, and 40 percent using the Internet from mobile phones. Some 47 percent indicated the regularly use both a mobile phone and a notebook computer to go online. The… Read More

Traditional print news media like magazines and newspapers have been struggling to adapt to the online world: as print advertising sales plummet and a growing number of newspapers scale back or close down entirely, there's been growing momentum in the industry—spearheaded by News Corp's Rupert Murdoch—to take online news content behind so-called “paywalls,” where only paid subscribers will be able to access… Read More