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Call it. Time of death: 2010. For the first time, online news readership and ad revenue has surpassed its print counterpart in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center. Released today, the fact-tank's State of the News Media report noted that 41-percent of Americans get "most of their news about national and international issues" from the Internet -- a 17-percent jump from last year. ...

Surfing the Web may be a relatively solitary activity, but, according to a new study, Internet users are a lot more active than they appear. In a national survey, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that 75-percent of all Americans are currently involved in some sort of volunteer group, but Internet users are noticeably more likely to participate in them; ...

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 ...

If you actually get a kick out of using location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla, you're part of a very small online minority. According to a recently released report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, just 4-percent of online Americans share their locations with their friends and family. Only 7-percent of people who access the Web from their cell phones ...

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 ...

During 2009, 30-somethings represented the most rapidly expanding demographic on Facebook. While the number of older social networkers continues to escalate, so too does the actual age of the flocking Facebook fogies. According to a Pew survey, the period between April 2009 and May 2010 witnessed an explosive increase in mature social networking, as the percentage of Internet users 50-and-older ...

Adults frequently employ heavy-handed tactics to combat teen texting and driving, but impudent kids remain unfazed by gory films and harsh laws that specifically apply to minors. According to media portrayals, teens seem determined to endanger everyone on the road. But, before adults implement more restrictions or disseminate further propaganda, society's elders may need to cast a long, hard ...

The indulgent practices of Google-stalking and self-searching both surfaced as soon as Google was born, and statistics from three years ago already indicated that over half of all adults admitted to Google snooping. The proliferation of such search engine spying -- coupled with the innumerable amount of Web-related arrests, suspensions, firings and expulsions -- has apparently inspired people to ...

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 ...

Texting your way to carpal tunnel syndrome at the age of 16 is extreme, but what about the rest of America's teenage youth? Has texting now replaced actual speech as teenage lingua franca? A recent survey conducted as part of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project finds that 75-percent of teens now own cell phones, up from just 45-percent in 2004. Researchers also find that ...

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 ...

Share Last week, The Pew Research Center released a report asking a selection of "experts, organizations, and interested institutions" whether or not they believed Google was making people dumb, and whether or not our collective intelligence would grow or shrink as a result of recurrent Internet use. The report was a somewhat belated response to Nicholas Carr's article, in the July/August 2008 ...

A new poll from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that Internet news sources continue to command more U.S. readers than both local and national newspapers. The Web overtook newspapers in 2008, and has only lengthened its lead, with 61-percent of adults saying they get at least some news online. More important than the Web's growing popularity as a news source, though, is how ...

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 ...