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Summary of Findings A growing number of Americans rely solely on a cell phone for their telephone service, and many more are considering giving up their landline phones. This trend presents a challenge to public opinion polling, which typically relies on a random sample of the population of landline subscribers. A new study of the […]

A growing number of Americans rely solely on a cell phone for their telephone service, and many more are considering giving up their landline phones. This presents a challenge to the kind of public opinion polling done by the Pew Internet & Ameri...

Lee Rainie describes the changes introduced into the consumer world by the internet, the cell phone, and other technology devices. And he covers some of the major implications of those changes for organizations and businesses that deal with consum...

How people use their cell phones in emergencies and to fill in their free time.

The holiday season is upon us again, and with it comes the annual flurry of photo-taking and sharing among family and friends.

A look at internet and cell phone penetration data shows that: a) older Americans are more likely to have cell phones than internet connections, and: b) African Americans are more likely to have cell phones than internet connections.

More than 6 million American adults have listened to podcasts.

36 million American adults use their cell phones for sending text messages

Growth in home broadband use and laptop purchases contributes to surge in use of computer networks among multi-computer households

Podcasting is when an audio file is enclosed in an RSS feed and in fact, broadcast to users who have signed up to receive the feed. The recipients can then open up the audio file and either listen to it immediately or ...