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Dec 1, 2009NPR | Morning Edition
About a third of Americans have gone online using a cell phone or other hand-held device. And an increasing number of people are using the devices for activities such as texting, sending e-mails, playing music and instant messaging.
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Oct 28, 2009New York Times
Some of the highest growth rates in broadband use are happening among the elderly. The Pew Research Center found that broadband use for those 65 and older increased from 1...
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Oct 19, 2009New York Times
ACCESS to a fast Internet connection has become more than a convenience. It’s being enshrined in some countries as a legal right of all citizens. Finland, for example, announced last week that it was moving up its timetable to next year from 2015 ...
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More in: Digital Divide, Broadband
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Oct 9, 2009Associated Press Newswires
A 2009 study by the Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project illustrates the depth of the digital divide.
Pew found that 85 percent of households with an income exceeding $75,000 have broadband service, more than double the 4...
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More in: Work, Digital Divide
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Oct 2, 2009MSNBC.com
After working for the city of Zanesville, Ohio, for 27 years, Sharon Newton had to go back to school.
Newton lost her job this year, and when she went to look for a new one she discovered that, even with all of her experience, she wasn’...
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Sep 22, 2009PC World (IDG News Service)
The FCC is about midway through a year-long effort to create a national broadband plan, and Blair Levin, executive director of the FCC's omnibus broadband initiative, said Tuesday he hopes he hasn't heard all the good ideas yet. "There's a lot of ...
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More in: Broadband, Race and Ethnicity , Mobile
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Sep 13, 2009Associated Press
The national stimulus package passed by Congress in February may have been too enthusiastic about spending money on one particular project: figuring out where broadband Internet access is available and how fast it is.
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More in: Broadband, Communities
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Sep 2, 2009NPR
Mr. ARMSTRONG: [. . .] a recent study was done by the Pew Internet in American Life Project. And it's called the Home Broadband Adoption 2009 study. [. . .] And...
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Sep 1, 2009Ars Technica
Shapiro and Hassett suggest that while the country has made some progress in closing the divide since the Department of Commerce first identified the problem in 1995, this nasty recession we're in has slowed the good news down, at least for the mo...
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Aug 19, 2009Computerworld
Broadband providers suggest that less than 10% of U.S. residents don't have access to broadband. But 37% of U.S. adults don't subscribe to broadband, according to a survey released in June by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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