Archive for May 18th, 2008

One in five Americans have never used email?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

A recent survey from marketing firm Parks Associates has found that around one in every five American house-holds have never used email or any other Internet service. So potentially one in five Americans have never used email. The survey interviewed heads-of-households and found that of those that had never used email, ...

The hyperconnected and the rest of the world

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Source: IDC/Nortel White Paper - The Hyperconnected: Here They Come! A post by Steve Rubel up on his site Micro Persuasion, points at a gap between the hyperconnected and the rest of the world. The term comes from a recent IDC/Nortel study that surveyed people for the number of communication devices and ...

Importance of open standards

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The UN's Commission on Science and Technology for Development will be looking at the progress on goals later this month set forth by the World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS, which was held in 2003 and 2004. The goal of the WSIS is to outline ways to promote an ...