5 posts and columns on Pew Internet and American Life Project

E-Reader Growth Outpacing Tablets in Recent Months

in Mobile on June 27, 2011 at 3:09 pm PT

Some 12 percent of U.S. adults now own a Kindle, Nook or other e-reader, compared with 8 percent who own an iPad or other tablet. Surprisingly, e-reader growth has accelerated over the last six months, while tablet growth has actually slowed somewhat, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet Project.
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U.S. Broadband Growth Slowest in Eight Years

in News on August 18, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

The U.S. government broadband stimulus program couldn’t have come along at a better time. Leichtman Research Group said Monday that the country’s 19 largest cable and telephone providers added a net 634,000 broadband subscribers during the second quarter of 2009. That’s 29 percent fewer than were added in the same period a year ago and the lowest number of net additions of any quarter in the last eight years.
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You Can Have My 28.8 Kbps Penril When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands

in News on July 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm PT

Dial-up users don’t like broadband? Obviously, that’s why they’re dial-up users. An estimated 10 percent of Americans are surfing the net via dial-up connections, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (PDF), most of them by choice.