Tag: PEW

'PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew' is a 2-D side-scrolling blaster game that should seem familiar to anyone who lived through the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. This soon-to-be Xbox Live title is a little different though; instead of using a controller, two players man microphones, one controlling thrust by blowing and the other firing lasers by -- you guessed it -- going "pew, pew, pew." ...

Today in Things You Didn't Already Know: turns out, you cannot actually treat disease with the Internet! Not even large doses of it! Despite that fact that almost everyone consumes massives quantities of Internet on a daily basis, it is not necessarily good for your health. Fox News even talked to some upside-down doctors in Australia, and they confirmed that the World Wide Web is no substitute ...

The majority of Americans still rely on television as their primary news source, but, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, the Internet is gaining ground. In a Pew national survey, 66-percent of all Americans cited TV as their main source for national and international news, down from 74-percent three years ago, and 82-percent in 2002. The Internet, ...

Watch out! Old people are joining Facebook! That's one of the major findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which just released the results of its latest survey, 'Generations 2010.' According to the report, Internet users over the age of 74 joined social networking sites at a faster rate than any other age group this year. Since 2008, in fact, social networking use has ...

It's probably not news to you that apps are the hottest trend in the mobile world right now. In the few short years since the iPhone ushered in the era of the consumer-oriented smartphone, the number of cell phone owners with applications installed on their handsets has risen to 43-percent, according to a recent Pew poll. That means that roughly 35-percent of the U.S. adult population downloads ...

The Pew Research Center recently conducted another installment in its Internet and American Life Project. The survey indicates that mobile usage is -- in dramatic fashion -- seamlessly and increasingly integrating with U.S. culture, as cell owners continue to diversify their phone habits, particularly those involving media capabilities. According to the survey, 40-percent of cell owners now ...

Today, videos are about as synonymous with the Internet as apple pie is with America. It should come as no surprise that a major slice of the online populous flocks to the Web to consume video media -- we all knew it had officially entered the mainstream when our moms began compulsively sharing YouTube dancing weddings with our grandmas. But a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Artist Simon Cottee explains the history of the pixel, gaming, music and art in the new documentary 'PIXEL.' [From: Simon Cottee, via: Boingboing] Test your mouse ...

Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has just released a report outlining the organization's findings on news sites' pay walls and consumer behavior. Unsurprisingly, users prefer ad-financed free news to subscription or pay-per-article models. (After all, why pay if you don't have to?) But online ad revenues fell in 2009 -- for the first time since 2002. While the recession ...

Teenagers, those impetuous stewards of the fountain of youth, are always assumed to be at the forefront of online trends. After all, they're the ones who help Grandma Google, or explain Facebook to Uncle Phil. So what does it mean, then, when teens flock to Facebook and MySpace, but neglect their 140-character cousin? Is Twitter a high school outcast? The answer, according to one recent study, is ...

While it's hard for us to imagine, there's still a small segment of those who don't have a cell phone. They claim life is simpler when you can't be reached all the time, but we beg to differ. Have you ever tried meeting a friend without a cell phone for drinks? According to The New York Times, a recent study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that most people who don't have a ...

The human obsession with "status" is almost as old as human history itself. Though the word has a historically hierarchical connotation, contemporary usage of "status" often has a different, more Twitter-ized meaning. Yet the fascination remains strong and, in a hyper-connected world, is rapidly intensifying. According to a study conducted as part of the Pew Internet and American Life ...

We learned during this last election cycle that the Internet had become a powerful source for news and information, and the latest poll out of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press just confirms that Internet is the media source to be reckoned with in the 21st century. While TV still tops the list of news sources in this country with 70-percent saying they get "most" of their ...

According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the percentage of adults that regularly play video games is much higher than many would probably expect. More than half of those over 18 play video games, and contrary to the stereotype, they're not all lonely, pimply, over-weight men. The gender gap is surprisingly small, 55-percent of adult men play video games, ...

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is constantly filling our lives with fascinating numbers and stats we never knew we cared about. For example, did you know that young people and men are much more likely to remain calm and optimistic in the event of a technological meltdown? We don't want to spend to much time sweating the details, so here are some quick bullet ...