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Cameraphones drive online photo-sharing

...and Twitter, Futuresource says: "There is a notably higher number of active 'silver surfers' in the USA, with over 30 percent of those using websites... Read more

20 December, 2011

Study: Women and elderly lead internet charge

...now account for 30 percent of total internet use. Interestingly, so-called "silver surfers" over the age of 64 spend more time online than any... Read more

23 August, 2007 by David Meyer

Upwardly mobile: What do silver surfers want

All about my mother... Read more

1 November, 2006 by Jo Best

10,000 silver surfers flood onto the web

...And business isn't the only sector that can benefit from more silver surfers: the government is also keen to see more old people get... Read more

25 May, 2006 by Steve Ranger

Silver surfers ride the Barclays bus

Web-wise OAPs to put to rest 'new-fangled thingummy-jig' stereotypes... Read more

3 April, 2002 by Kate Hanaghan

UK Web use shoots up

Survey: The number of British adults online has jumped sharply, thanks to 'silver surfers' and the broadband boom Read more

30 July, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Apple: Cool enough for your granny

Silver surfers biggest Mac owners In its latest batch of adverts, Apple painted... Read more

30 November, 2006 by Jo Best

Students and shoppers leading UK web use

Silver surfers and jobless not... Just over 60 per cent of Britons are... Read more

11 November, 2005 by Jo Best

Make tech accessible to all, demands EC

Silver surfers will benefit... The European Commission has called upon the continent's... Read more

16 September, 2005 by Jo Best

Old people like the internet

Silver surfers up a third, say new figures The number of silver surfers... Read more

14 November, 2003 by Andy McCue
2009: The year websites become accessible to all

2009: The year websites become accessible to all

...the increasing number of older, less web-savvy people coming online — the 'silver surfers' — would seem foolish. In the US the number of internet users... Read more

21 January, 2009 by Bruce Lawson

Pensioners pioneer Internet security

Silver surfers are leading the way in protecting their computers from hackers and... Read more

3 February, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...at a distance of seventy miles on behalf of enthusiastic but untechnical silver surfers. As I've also got to sort out a wireless router... Read more

12 November, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...at a distance of seventy miles on behalf of enthusiastic but untechnical silver surfers. As I've also got to sort out a wireless router... Read more

12 November, 2004

Three million new Net users in the UK

...show that the number of surfers over the age of fifty -- dubbed silver surfers -- grew over 2000 by half a million to 2.2m users... Read more

23 January, 2001 by Will Knight

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