[Air-L] Pew Internet Report > The Future is Wireless

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

The Latest Pew Internet & American Life report > Pew Internet Report:
Wireless Internet Use / July 22 2009
<http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2009/07/pew-internet-report-wirele
ss-internet.html>  

 

/Gerry

 

56% Of All Americans Have Accessed The Internet By Wireless Means 

 

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An April 2009 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet &
American Life Project asked respondents whether they had used a variety
of devices - laptops, cell phones, game consoles, and more - to go
online using a wireless network. Altogether, 56% of Americans said they
have at some point used wireless means for online access. 

*         39% of all Americans have used a laptop computer to go online
wirelessly, making this the most prevalent means of wireless access. 

*         32% of all Americans have gotten online with a mobile device -
meaning they have used a cell phone or other handheld device to check
email, access the internet for information, or send instant messages. 

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Use of the internet on mobile devices has grown sharply from the end of
2007 to the beginning of 2009.

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/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

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