12 posts and columns on Pew Research Center

Mobile Payments Won’t Replace Cash or Credit for Another Decade

in Commerce on April 17 at 9:07 am PT

It will take another eight years for cash and credit cards to be replaced almost completely by smartphones, according to those interviewed by Pew Research.
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20 Percent of Americans Say They’re Reading eBooks

in Media on April 4 at 7:00 pm PT

One in five Americans say they’ve read an e-book in the last year, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Those numbers come from a late-January survey, they’re up sharply from a December 2011 survey. Pew says the jump coincides with a jump in e-reading devices: Ownership of dedicated e-reader devices like the Kindle and the Nook went from 10 percent in December to 19 percent in January, and ownership of tablets like iPads and Kindle Fires made the same leap.

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More Than 50 Percent of U.S. Adults Used Cellphone for Holiday Shopping

in News on January 30 at 7:44 am PT

A new report from Pew Research Center says that more than 50 percent of U.S. adult cellphone owners surveyed used their devices for shopping purposes while they were in a store this past holiday season. Some 38 percent of cellphone owners called a friend for purchasing advice; 24 percent looked up online product reviews; and 25 percent used their phones to try to find better deals elsewhere or online. In early January, IBM Research reported that mobile shopping in December 2011 doubled from the same holiday shopping period the year before.

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Not Many Americans Use Location-Based Services

in News on November 4, 2010 at 11:30 am PT

Facebook Places, Foursquare and Gowalla are all hot products in the much-hyped location-based social space, but according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, only one percent of Americans use location-based services. Not surprisingly, the highest concentration of users can be found in adults between 18 and 29–with eight percent–and adults who use their mobile phones online–with seven percent.

This Just in from the N.S. Sherlock Institute for the Bleeding Obvious: Media Likes Covering Apple

in News on September 27, 2010 at 6:55 am PT

Apple makes headlines. That’s the conclusion of a yearlong study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which found that Cupertino generates a disproportionately large amount of news coverage compared with other tech companies–even titans like Google and Microsoft.

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Teens Texting Even More Than Before

in News on April 20, 2010 at 10:46 am PT

Texting has far outstripped face-to-face communication, cellphone calls and all other ways teens communicate with their friends outside of the classroom, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. Texting has been widely popular among teenagers for some time, but the survey shows that its use has grown dramatically even in the past year.

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Web Users Take Dim View of Paywalls, Ignore Ads, Study Confirms

in News on March 15, 2010 at 1:30 pm PT

As news outlets struggle to find a revenue model online, a new study suggests how daunting it will be to persuade users to pay for content. Only 7 percent of Americans who get their news online say they have a favorite news source that they would continue to visit if that site put up a pay wall, according to an annual report on U.S. journalism from the Pew Research Center.

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Dishwashers, Dryers and Other 'Old Tech' Become Less Necessary

in News on April 24, 2009 at 1:40 pm PT

A smaller percentage of Americans see their TV sets, dishwashers, clothes dryers and other “old” household technology as necessities, while a growing number describe broadband and iPods that way, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.