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News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today upgraded and modernized the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country. These changes will help ensure that Americas students can learn and develop the hightech skills necessary to compete in the 21st Century economy. The National Broadband Plan laid out …
News release: “In the 2010 Kids and Family Reading Report – Turning the Page in the Digital Age – a national survey released today, children age 6 17 and their parents share their views on a wide range of topics regarding reading in the 21st Century. The study, conducted by Scholastic, the global childrens …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today took steps to free up vacant airwaves between TV channels — called white spaces — to unleash a host of new technologies, such as super Wi-Fi, and myriad other diverse applications. This is the first significant block of spectrum made available for unlicensed use in more than 20 …
“A Wall Street Journal investigation into online privacy has found that popular children’s websites install more tracking technologies on personal computers than do the top websites aimed at adults.” “Marketers are spying more on young Internet users than on their parents, building detailed profiles of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journals What They …
Americans Spending More Time Following the News – Ideological News Sources: Who Watches and Why, September 12, 2010 “There are many more ways to get the news these days, and as a consequence Americans are spending more time with the news than over much of the past decade. Digital platforms are playing a larger role …
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, September 13, 2010, Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids: “New research with users aged 312 shows that older kids have gained substantial Web proficiency since our last studies, while younger kids still face many problems. Designing for children requires distinct usability approaches, including targeting content narrowly for different ages of …
The Power of Mobile, by Susannah Fox, September 13, 2010 – Prepared for Mayo Transform 2010: Thinking Differently About Health Care. “Mobile was the final front in the access revolution. It has erased the digital divide. A mobile device is the internet for many people…Access isnt the point anymore. Its what people are doing with …
OIG-10-111 – DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems, September 8, 2010 “Our audit focused on the security of the systems that US-CERT uses to accomplish its cybersecurity mission. Overall, NCSD has implemented adequate physical security and logical access controls over the cybersecurity program systems used to collect, process, and …
“This alternative way of slicing the data still shows Email to be, by far, the dominant sector in terms of mobile time, although this dominance shrinks by a few delta points to 38.5% from 41.6%. Search is another that nets out with a smaller share, although by less than a percentage point from 7.1% to …
Cell phones and American adults – They make just as many calls, but text less often than teens – by Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist, 9/2/2010 “Texting by American adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of text messages exchanged by adolescents. Some 72% of adult cell …
Older Adults and Social Media – Social networking use among those ages 50 and older nearly doubled over the past year, Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist, August 27, 2010: “While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. …
Google Voice Blog: “Google Voice lets you manage all your phone communications and seamlessly make and receive calls on any of your existing phones. But what if you dont have your phone with you? Or what if youre in a place with poor cell phone reception, or youre travelling internationally and dont want to incur …
