The Rumors Are True: We Spend More And More Time Online. Survey results published by Harris Interactive suggest that adult Internet users are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online. About 14% spends 24 or more hours a week online, while 20% of adult Internet users are online for only two hours or less a week. To put things in perspective: Harris surveyed 2,029 adults by telephone for an entire week in July and October 2009, and has been doing these types of polls since 1995.
Harris concludes that the average hours spent online have increased from 7 hours from 1999 to 2002, to between 8 and 9 hours in 2003 to 2006, and surged after that. There was a sudden spike in time spent online in 2007 when the average hours spent on the Web increased to 11 hours. The age groups that spend the most time online are those aged 30-39 (18 hours) and those aged 25-29 (17 hours) and 40-49 (17 hours).
How about you: how much time do you spend online (excluding e-mail) a week on average? (Image credit: dalbera / Flickr) Twitter finally in the money with Google link - Times Online. Why Firefox's future lies in Google's hands. By Stuart Turton Posted on 19 Jan 2010 at 14:14 Firefox has just turned five, and it’s doubtful anybody outside of Redmond begrudges Mozilla’s celebrations. The open-source browser now accounts for 25% of the global market, according to figures from Net Applications, and has brought a radical rethink in what we expect from a browser.
However, as Mozilla blows out the birthday cake candles, it might also be reflecting on the curse of getting what you wish for. “They’ve been forced to improve their browsers, and they have resources at their disposal that Mozilla doesn’t,” said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. It was a different ball game when it was Mozilla against Microsoft, everybody was on its side. Not least because of Google, which with the release of Chrome now stands as both benefactor and rival to Mozilla. “We have other relationships with eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and Canonical, which provide some revenue today, although not on the scale of our Google relationship.
5 Must-Have Free Social Apps for BlackBerry. Tammy Camp is a serial entrepreneur, company advisor, blogger and adventure traveler. Find her via @TammyCamp on Twitter. BlackBerry, the enterprise phone, is often dismissed as the “other” brand within social media communities. But worldwide, BlackBerrys still outnumber iPhones, and RIM has made major strides in recent years to become more social-friendly. I use my BlackBerry not only for business, but for most of my social media.
But which apps should you use? 1. My clear number one choice for this list is BlackBerry Messenger, which I use almost exclusively when I travel out of the US. Additional features in the newest version include picture-sharing, group creation, voice notes, and a way to find people based on name or barcode (each device has its own). Price: FREE 2. BlackBerry’s own Facebook client comes already installed on most phones, and the newest version is even nicer and cleaner than before, getting closer to the user experience you’d expect on the web. 3. 4. 5.
Ten gadgets that defined the decade. As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there's really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It's arguable that if this wasn't the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets -- one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years time, gadgets have touched almost every aspect of our daily lives, and personal technology has come into its own in a way never before seen. It's a decade that's been marked the ubiquity of the internet, the downfall of the desktop, and the series finale of Friends, but we've boiled it down to the ten devices we've loved the most and worked the hardest over the past ten years.
Canon Digital ELPH (2000) Vital stats Line started in 2000 with PowerShot S100, which retailed for $599 with 2 megapixel sensor and CF storage. History Editor's take Honorable / dishonorable mentions.