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Half Of Europe Will Be Surfing By 2003 - IDC Report
News As we enter a new millennium, Europe's Internet population has soared to 81 million, double the figure at the beginning of 1999. Currently the Nordic countries -- Sweden, Norway and Demark and Finland -- have the highest Internet penetration in...
[April 5, 2000, 12:14]
British Women Give Online Porn The Thumbs Up
News More than a quarter of the entire UK home Internet population visited pornography Web sites in June, with a quarter of the surfers being women. People who first got online at home before 1997 account for nearly one fifth of visitors to pornographic...
[August 13, 2001, 8:30]
Internet Gains One Million New Surfers
News The UK Internet population has grown from 7,820,000 in October 1999 to 9,209,000 in March 2000. The Net is still the domain of the young though, with 25-34 year-olds making up 24 percent of the Internet population.
[May 2, 2000, 16:45]
Korean Internet Use Creates A Digital Divide
News The Internet is at risk of causing divisions in Korea's population, according to new figures released by the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC), which show young men in the cities are by far the most likely to be Net savvy.
[August 11, 2004, 11:40]
News Burst: Britain Loves Technology
News Britain is an officially tech-savvy nation with nearly half of the adult population using the Internet, according to the Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom published Thursday. Britain 2001 based on data from the Office of National Statistics...
[December 15, 2000, 9:23]
Official: Britain Loves Technology
News Britain is an officially tech-savvy nation with nearly half of the adult population using the Internet, according to the Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom published Thursday. Britain 2001 based on data from the Office of National Statistics...
[December 15, 2000, 11:10]
2001: Britons Get Comfortable Online
News By June, the UK home Internet population stood at 13.9 million. The home Internet population exceeded the 12 million mark for the first time in March 2001. At its peak, the site had a reach of 17.8 percent of the UK online population, amounting to...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
Online Christmas Shopping Soared In 2001
News The 10 million online shoppers accounted for nearly 70 percent of the UK Internet population. Only 40 percent of the Swedish Internet population visited online retailers throughout the Christmas period.
[January 24, 2002, 17:03]
Wireless Technology Promises Internet Boost
News The research suggests that the proportion of wireless Internet users, which currently makes up 10 percent of the world's online population, will grow to 62 percent over the next five years. Europe is expected to see more growth in mobile Internet...
[February 7, 2001, 11:53]
China Opens Up To E-tail
News On 16 March, businesses outside China will be able to register .cn domain names for the first time ever -- providing Western e-tailers the opportunity to gain access to the country's vast and rapidly growing online population.
[March 11, 2003, 9:03]
Skills Not Money Needed To Fight Cybercrime
News According to the third phase of EURIM's e-crime study, around half the UK population and 10 percent of the world's population has access to the Internet. This means that a large number of criminals also connect to the Internet, which has led to the...
[May 18, 2004, 16:45]
IM Client Vulnerable To Attack
News According to Jason Ross, senior analyst at amr interactive, in June 2002 there were 28,000 home users of Trillian in Australia, about 0.4 percent of the Internet population, and 55,000 people using it at work, about 1.8 percent of the Internet...
[August 23, 2002, 9:12]
US Kids Are Most Net-savvy
News British children in the 12 to 17 age group, by comparison, accounted for just 11 percent of the total UK online population in January, according to research conducted by Internet research firm NetValue.
[February 26, 2001, 11:36]
UK's Poorest Families Still Avoiding The Net
News According to the government, only half the Internet population has visited a government site in the past 12 months. The ONS report on Internet access indicates that a sizeable part of the UK population has little interest in joining the online...
[December 17, 2003, 13:10]
Low Income Families Close The Digital Divide
News Men are still leading the way in the take-up of the Web, making up 50 percent of the UK Internet population compared to women who account for 35 percent. Children between two and 14 are rapidly displacing both age groups, having increased their...
[March 20, 2001, 6:36]
Study: Women And Elderly Lead Internet Charge
News The over-50s — who make up 41 percent of the UK population — now account for 30 percent of total internet use. Ofcom's report showed that the UK had the most active online population in Europe, with 56 percent of the population now surfing daily.
[August 23, 2007, 14:35]
Government To Launch Free Internet Tasters
News Under the new scheme, people will get a free taste of the Internet, and the government is hoping that this will increase the percentage of the population who are online. As ZDNet UK reported back in February, growth in Internet take-up by...
[May 12, 2003, 16:58]
Jane Wakefield: Big Brother Is Watching You
News In fact anyone who has ever tuned in to one of those bizarre Webcams that were popular last year, where young girls agreed to let the Internet population into their bedrooms could testify that are very few rules that the Internet hasn't broken.
[August 21, 2000, 7:00]
Half The UK To Be Surfing In A Year, Predicts AltaVista
News Search engine turned ISP, AltaVista, predicts that half the UK's population will be online in the next year following Oftel's ruling to force BT to offer flat rate services to other operators. Within six to 12 months 50 percent of the population...
[June 5, 2000, 15:50]
US Report: AOL 4.0 Assimilates The Net
News Even if AOL users only occasionally visited the Internet, they would make up a significant part of the online population. AOL targets the Net Web metering firm RelevantKnowledge Inc.puts the entire online population, ages 12 and up, at 53.4 million...
[September 29, 1998, 11:45]
