Pew

Your Smartphone as Superman: 86 Percent Use Phones for “Just-in-Time” Situations

Lauren Goode in Mobile on May 7 at 9:39 am PT

Arguing over fact sets or finding yourself in a sticky situation? Your smartphone, to the rescue.

Not Surprisingly, U.S. Teens Are Texting More, Talking Less

Lauren Goode in News on March 19 at 10:32 am PT

OMG, ICYMI: Teens are texting more, and shunning uncool “landlines.”

On Facebook, We Get More Love Than We Give

Liz Gannes in Social on February 2 at 9:01 pm PT

We receive significantly more “Likes,” messages, tags and friend requests from our Facebook friends than we send out ourselves, according to a new Pew Internet report.

Pew: Nearly One-Fifth of U.S. Adults Own Tablets or E-Readers

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 23 at 7:45 am PT

Back-to-school season may not have spurred a ton of tablet and e-reader purchases, but the holidays were a different story, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.

Twitter Is So Mainstream Now: Eight Percent of Online Americans Use It

Liz Gannes in Social on December 9, 2010 at 12:20 am PT

Young, urban, minority, women, well-educated. What do these demographic factors spell out? The categories of American Internet users who are most likely to use Twitter. That’s according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

Hey Facebook, This Launch Better Not Be Boring

Liz Gannes in Social on November 15, 2010 at 1:09 am PT

Facebook on Monday plans to launch an email service for its users at a press event in San Francisco. The young company has really gotten way too into these show-and-tell events.

The 168-Hour Work Week

John Paczkowski in News on December 15, 2008 at 11:34 am PT

If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by near-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, just you wait. Because by 2020 it’s likely to have been erased entirely. That’s the word from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose recent “Future of the Internet III” study suggests that the dawn of the mobile phone as a “primary” Internet connection will essentially obliterate the boundaries between work and home.