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New York Times Digital : $8.3 million profit for 2002, an improvement of $15.6 million over previous year; six consecutive quarters of being in the black. (Poynter.org — January 28)

19 out of 20 (or 95%) use IE as a browser, with Netscape a very distant second, and alternative browsers restricted to use among a small tech savvy niche, according to Web analytics outfit OneStat.com. (The Register — December 17)

Research done in 2001 on Internet job hunting showed that more than 18 million people annually post their résumés on Monster.com, an electronic job-search service, and 90 percent of the Fortune 500 use some kind of online recruiting. (Washington Post— December 17)

Internet misuse costs American corporations more than $ 85 billion annually in lost productivity — an increase of 35 eprcent since the year prior. (Cyberatlas — December 3)

An annual report by the UNCTAD trade and development agency forecast that registered Internet users could total 655 million by the end of 2002, a year-on-year increase of 30%. (USA Today — Nov 18)

The value of electronic commerce — goods and services bought and sold over the Internet — could reach as high as $2.3 billion this year, a 50 percent rise from last year, climbing to around $3.9 at the end of 2003. (USA Today — Nov 18)

Almost 80 percent of attorneys questioned said that incriminatory e-mails had been part of divorce proceedings, while 65 percent said computer and financial spending records had been incorporated into divorce records. (The Register — Nov 15)

New research from comScore Media Metrix indicates that 5.2 million Internet users in the US visited religious websites during September. (Nua — Nov 12)

Between November 2001 and April 2002, the online personals market grew 29 percent to 18.6 million users — a whopping 20 percent of the singles population. (Wired — Nov 1)

1 in 5 consumers who have looked for information online have asked their doctor about a disease symptom/diagnosis having read something on the internet. (Europemedia — October 23)

Where workers spend time online: Some 23 percent of workers surveyed said they considered news the most addictive Web content, right after online shopping at 24 percent, compared with 18 percent who reported pornography, 8 percent for gambling and 6 percent online auctions. (MSNBC — September 18)

WebSense estimates that 35 percent of its customers block employee access to IM in the workplace. (Wired — September 17)

Nearly 80 percent of students surveyed said the Internet has added to their college academic experience, while 56 percent said e-mail alone has enhanced their relationships with professors, according to a new survey, released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. (CNN — September 15)

More than two-thirds of Americans say it's OK for government agencies to remove public information from the Internet. (digitalmass.com — September 9)

A recent study from Forrester Research indicates that North Americans prefer to spend their free time watching television rather than going online. Consumers in North America spend an average of 8.7 hours per week watching TV, compared to just 2.3 hours hours spent online. (Nua Survey — August 30)

Web Addiction on the Rise : According to research conducted by employee management firm Websense Inc., 25 percent of employees feel addicted to the Internet. (Cyberatlas — August 21)

According to a recent survey, 12.4 million Americans paid for some type of content in the first quarter of this year, compared with 7 million the first quarter of 2001. The survey did not include payments made to pornography sites. (NYTimes— August 1st)

With over 3 million pages, over 25 million articles covering 148 years of history and 4 terabytes of data, the New York Times' digitized conversion by ProQuest is unprecedented. (Wired— July 30)

Men use computers more than women' claims study. 200 In the nationwide study only 33 percent of women said they felt extremely confident using new technology, compared to 65 percent of men (Ananova— July 23)

WorldCom Inc. filed the largest U.S. bankruptcy on Sunday after the long-distance telephone and data services company buckled under a $3.85 billion accounting scandal and a mountain of junk-rated debt. (Yahoo! News— July 22)

According to a recent survey among 544 human resources (HR) managers and officers from some of Britain's largest corporations found that almost three-quarters (72 percent) of U.K. firms have had issues with Internet misuse.

Online pornography was associated with 69 percent of all dismissals, and accounts for 51 percent of workplace complaints. (Cyberatlas — July 11)

While global Internet usage rose by three percent to reach the one billionth computer has been sold, and another billion are expected to be sold over the next six years. (BBC — July 1)

While global Internet usage rose by three percent to reach 34 percent from early 2001 to early 2002, the proportion of users making an online purchase in the past four weeks remains at 15 percent, the same as in 2001. (Nua Survey — June 26)

Almost 40 percent of those at home use IM, while at-work use is at 31 percent, according to a new study from Nielson/NetRatings. (Cyberatlas — June 25)

The Western European Internet security software market grew by 27 percent in 2001 to reach USD 1.6 billion. (Nua Survey — June 25)

Google, which receives more than 150 million requests daily, is the first address for conventional internet research with 51 per cent of all queries, according to OneStat.com, a statistics provider. (FT — June 18)

More than 100 million people are expected to be playing games on the internet by 2006. (BBC — June 9)

A new study from Jupiter Media Metrix indicates that almost 70 percent of US consumers worry that their privacy is at risk online. However, despite their concern, only 40 percent of consumers read privacy statements before handing over personal information to websites. (Nua Survey — June 4)

More than one third of all American Internet users have downloaded commercial software online, yet have failed to pay for all the copies they later install. (Nua Surveys — May 31)

Federal and state police legally intercepted approximately 2.3 million conversations and pager communications in 2001, spending about $72 million in the process, the federal court system's annual report says. (Wired— May 25)

According to an FBI report, about 2,600 Americans said they were victims of the scams in 2001. Sixteen reported losses totaling $345,000, two individuals lost over $70,000 each. (USA Today— May 23)

Consumers who pay a fee of $1 or so to buy movie tickets online now make up about 3 percent of box office sales, according to industry estimates, and ticketing executives predict the number will grow to 10 percent or more within a few years. (NYTimes— May 20)

Sometime this spring, if all goes as planned, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, will reach a milestone: It will have spent a million years of computer time sifting electromagnetic noise from the sky for a sign that someone or something is trying to get in touch.

SETI has accomplished this feat of computational drudgery in just 3 years — by persuading some 3.5 million people to allow their personal computers to be yoked into a loose-knit skein called SETI@home. (IHT— April 25)

Experts estimate that the "surface Web" contains 1 billion to 2 billion documents while the "deep Web" could contain as many as 550 billion. There are more than 200,000 deep Web sites more than half of which are located in topic-specific databases. About 95 percent of information on the deep Web is available to the public and is not subject to subscription fees. Yahoo News — April 24

According to a survey from InsightExpress, only 39 percent of Americans read any magazines online, citing reasons such as inconvenience (54 percent ); online banner ads, pop-ups, and general distractions (47 percent ); prices of online magazines (43 percent ); and eye strain. (CyberAtlas — newsletter April 23 — article by Robyn Greenspan)

A new study from iLogos Research indicates that 91 percent of the top 500 companies use corporate websites for recruiting. (Nua Suvey — April 12)

Nearly 10,000 Americans reported losing $18 million in online scams last year, according to the Internet Fraud Complaint Center's annual report. (USA Today — April 11)

Google processes more than 150 million search queries a day through its own site and others, such as Yahoo, that license Google's technology. Google indexes 3 billion Web documents. (USA Today — April 1)

About 20 percent of public Web sites that existed nine months ago no longer exist, according to a sample studied last week by the Online Library Computer Center. (NYTimes — March 30)

Internet researcher Jupiter Media Metrix estimates that consumers will receive an average of 1,400 junk mails per person by 2006 compared with about 700 a person this year. (News.com — March 21)

According to a new survey from Osterman Research, 29.3 percent of companies use instant messaging. (Nua Survey — March 20)

In barely four years, Google has become the Internet’s leading search engine, proc-essing 70 million queries a day with its speedy and uncannily accurate means of combing through 3 billion Web pages to find exactly what you want. (Newsweek — March 25 issue)

American Greetings has signed up nearly 1 million subscribers since December, when it began charging $11.95 to visit its most popular card sites -- AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com and eGreetings.com.

ConsumerReports.org, which counts more than 800,000 subscribers most of whom pay $24 a year to view the online edition of the consumer watchdog magazine.

During the first year it charged a fee, online magazine Salon.com signed up 33,000 subscribers who pay $30 annually or $6 monthly. This year, subscriptions will bring in more than $1 million, estimated Salon vice president Patrick Hurley. (CNN — March 18)

Internet gamblers may have more serious addictions to the hobby than other gamblers. A US study has found that 74% of people with internet betting experience were a cause for concern. This compared with just 22% of those without any experience of gambling by computer. (Ananova — March 18)

30 percent of teenage girls polled by the Girl Scout Research Institute said they had been sexually harassed in a chat room. (Nua Survey — March 11)

1 in every 20 consumers has been the victim of credit card fraud in the past 12 months, according to a study released Monday by Gartner Inc and 1 in 50 consumers has suffered an identity theft. (MSNBC — March 3)

More than half of the world's largest companies keep tabs on their workers' Internet use, according to industry analysts. And nearly two-thirds of companies screen employees' electronic activities. (The Washington Post, February 22)

Spysoftware WinWhatWhere has already sold 200'000 copies — to suspicious spouses and to the FBI. (USA Today, February 18)

Of the US households that subscribe to magazines, 11 percent subscribed online in the last quarter of 2001, reports eMarketer. (Nua Survey, February 7)

According to market research firm Jupiter Media Metrix, 12 million people are now using online personal ads, 4.4 million of them from work — spending an average of 32 minutes with each visit. The firm estimates that during December, 145 million minutes were spent on personal sites in December. (MSNBC, February 6 )

Blogger's "push button editing", run by one person, is used on around 4,000 copies websites. (The Guardian, January 21)

Identity theft was the largest complaint on the commission's consumer complaint list last year, representing 42 percent of its 204,000 complaints. (SV.com, January 23)

Ten years ago, at the end of 1991, the Net was home to some 727,000 hosts or computers with unique Internet Protocol, or I.P., addresses. By the end of 2001, that number had soared to 175 million. (NY Times — January 10)

eBay fell short of its goal to raise $ 100 million in 100 days through charitable auctions for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The effort brought in $ 10 million. (WSJ — January 6)

At least 59 nations limit freedom of expression, according to Leonard R. Sussman, author of "Censor.gov.". (Newsbytes — January 4)

Sex Online [Sex Onlne]

	How many Online [Combien sommes-nous en ligne]

	According to research company Nielsen-Netratings', 580 million people have Net access, compared to 563 million in the third quarter of 2002. (Nua Surveys — Feb 25) How Many Online ?: Out of 605.6 million Internet users worldwide, 190.91 million are European, 187.24 million are in Asia or Australia, and 182.67 million are American or Canadian. (Nua Survey — 2002) Spain - Official telecoms survey reveals only 17% of homes have internet access (Europemedia.net— December 12) The global online population has grown to over 600 million for the first time. (Nua Survey — Nov 1) Almost 10 percent of the world’s population now has access to the Internet, according to newly released figures from Nua.com. (Nua Surrvey— August 13) The worldwide Internet population reache 323.7 million users in April 2002, according to a new report from comScore (Nua Survey — May 14) The number of internet connections in EU homes stood at 38 per cent in December, up slightly from 36 per cent in June. But that growth is much slower compared to the year before. (Europemedia, February 11) The number of Americans using the Web in 2001 passed 50 percent of the population for the first time. (WSJ, February 4 31) E-Commerce [E-Commerce]

	Retail sales over the Internet grew by 28.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002 compared to the same quarter a year earlier, rising to $14.33 billion, the Commerce Department said. (Wired — Feb 24) Estimated sales figures from several measurement firms show that consumers are serious about online shopping as holiday outlays are up 30 to 40 percent this year. (Cyberatlas— December 11) A survey conducted for the Business Software Alliance, a trade association, showed that 71 percent of Internet users say they plan to purchase some, most or all of their holiday gifts online this year. (WSJ — Nov 12) Online apparel sales are expected to make up a mere 2.5% of the total retail market this year, but mail-order clothing catalogers have been among the most successful at adapting their businesses to the Web. About 30% of Lands' End's U.S. sales, for example, are over the Internet. Last year, it had online sales of $327 million, and the retailer says its Web operations have been profitable for years. (WSJ — October 30) Online booking of hotel rooms is expected to grow to $15.5 billion in 2006 from $3.8 billion in 2000 according to a Bear Stearns report. (WSJ— August 9) Airline sites saw a 15 percent boost in traffic during the week ending August 4 from those logging on to the Internet at work, according to NetRatings. (CNN— August 9) Retail movie ticket sales comprised the fastest growing website category between April and May 2002, increasing 25 percen to 18.9 million unique visitors. (Nua Survey — June 19) A new survey from Shop.org indicates that 56 percent of online retailers in the US reported profits during 2001, a rise of 13 percent in 2000. (Nua Survey — June 13) ElectricNews.Net reports that European business-to-business ecommerce sales are expected to grow from $ 500 billion in 2002, to $ 2,300 billion by 2005. (Nua Survey — May 9) Online sales in France doubled during 2001 to EUR1.45 billion (USD1.27 billion) reports Europemedia. However, the report acknowledges that this is much less that the growth rate in previous years. In 1999 and 2000, online sales in France grew by 227 percent and 240 percent respectively. (Nua Suvey — April 15) Total e-sales in 2001 were $32.6 billion, up 19.3% from 2000. (USA Today February 20) 84 percent of US Internet users have bought online at least once, but less than a third buy online regularly, according to the Internet Commerce Briefing from the Intermarket Group. Only 49 percent made an online purchase during 2001, up from 32 percent in 1999.(Nua Survey — January 30) Advertising [Publicité]

	Industrywide, online advertising is expected to fall by 11.5 percent for all of 2002, to $6.38 billion, according to eMarketer, a market research firm in New York. (New York Times— December 9) According to Jupiter Media Metrix, spending on online classified advertising grew 38 percent from 2001, rising to $1.2 billion this year. (Cyberatlas— May 1) Online advertising in the US is forecast to grow 8.8 percent this year, reports CyberAtlas. (The Nua Survey - January 31)
	AOL [America Online]

	AOL increased its European membership by 148,000 in its latest quarter's trading. (Revolution Magazine — October 25) AOL reports that it has pulled in about one million customers in the last month, bringing its total subscriber base to 29 million. (BBC — April 16 ) Demographics [Démogaphie]

	Middle adults, those aged 35-49, accounted for 40.2 million of Internet surfers in 2002 and 43.3 million in 2003, and will swell to 51.4 million in 2007. (Cyberatlas— January 23) For the first time, Europe has more internet users than the US. According to Irish-based industry monitor Nua.com. Europe has almos 186 million users, while Canada and the US register 182 million. (The Guardian— September 9) Nearly 40 percent of Irish adults are online, according to new research from Amarach Consulting. (Nua Survey — August 20) 89% A new survey shows the number of Russian web users nearly doubled in 2001. The Russian Centre for Internet Technologies survey found 18 million people have used the internet, 8 million regularly. (Ananova — May 6) China has the second largest number of home Internet users in the world, reports Reuters. Around 56.6 million households have access to the Internet, which is equivalent to just 5.5 percent of the Chinese population. (Nua Survey — April 22) European women are using the Internet more than ever and surfing more efficiently than men, a survey reveals. The number of female Web users increased 29 percent between February 2001 and February 2002 to 25.1 million in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK combined. This compared to an increase of 24 percent male users from 31.9 million to 40.1 million during the same period. About 25.5 million US work users went online using broadband, up from 18 million last year. (Nua Survey — March 6) The number of internet connections in EU homes stood at 38 per cent in December, up slightly from 36 per cent in June. But that growth is much slower compared to the year before. (Europemedia, February 11) New users were at 2 million per month in 2001. (WSJ, February 4 31) A new report says 55 million women surfed the Web in December, up from 50.4 million in the year-ago period. (MSNBC, January 186) Over two thirds of Asian-Americans use the Internet every day, more than other US ethnic groups, a new study by Pew Internet and American Life Project has shown. (Nua Survey— December 13) Domain Names [Noms de domaines]

	More than 35 percent of registered «.biz» domains come from Europe, 12 percent of which where registered in Germany. (Europmedia — January 23) Page Views / Downloads / Visitors [Pages Lues — Visiteurs]

	Blogger has been one of the more popular Web log sites. The site now has about 875,000 sers who publish some 930,000 blogs (ZDNet — October 25) The Financial Times expects its website to break even by the end of the year, six months after introducing a subscription charge. But subscription still only accounts for between 5 and 10 percent of its revenues, according to executives on the site. Pearson, the parent company of the FT, announced in July the site had attracted 17,000 paying customers within two months of introducing charges. The total number of subscribers is now believed to stand at over 25,000. However, the number of paying subscribers still represents a tiny proportion of the site's users, which now stand at over 3 million. (The Guardian — October 18) MSN drew more than 30 million monthly unique users worldwide between Feb. 1, 2002 and May 31, 2002. (Cyberatlas — September 5) FT.com has signed up 17'000 subscribers to its subscription services since it launched paid-for content in May. (Revolution Magazine— July 30) WSJ.com, the online version of The Wall Street Journal, has increased its number of subscribers to 646,000. (RevolutionMagazine — July 14) Hotmail claims more than 110 million active users worldwide, but only 300,000 customers have signed on for any Hotmail or MSN extra-service options. (Washington Post — June 22) Online gaming sites attracted more than 28 million visitors in the US during April, according to new statistics from Nielsen Netratings. (Nua Survey— May 22) Almost 14 million US users also say that the Internet enabled them to help a loved one who had an illness, while more than 4 million Americans say the Internet helped them cope with their own struggle with a major illness. (Nua Survey — May 15) Starswars.com nearly doubled its traffic to 177,000 for the week ending May 5, with increased online and offline advertising. (Nua Survey — May 10) The US is a nation of ‘cyberchondriacs’: Around 110 million Americans go online to look for health care information, according to a new survey from Harris Interactive. (Nuy Survey— May 2) Yahoo's audience continues to grow. It counted a total of 237 million unique users worldwide in the quarter, compared with 192 million in the first quarter of 2001. (NY Times — April 11) Google, Silicon Valley's hottest private company, is deluged with 1,000 résumés a day. Google sifts through an index of 3 billion Web pages, pictures and messages more than 150 million times a day. Google's sales are growing briskly tho the company will not disclose its results, but competitors estimate its sales at $15 million to $ 25 million a quarter. (NY Times — April 9) More than 40 percent of home Internet users in the United States have downloaded MP3 files onto their home computers, according to a study by Parks Associates, and they are storing an average of 350 music files. (Cyberatlas — March 29) The Olympics : Data from comScore indicates that 6.02 million people from around the world went to msnbc.com during the week ending February 17, 2002. In the same week: (NUA Survey — February 25) — 1.71 million visited nbcolympics.com — 1.33 million visited Sportsline.com — 1.71 million visited nbcolympics.com — 990,000 visited saltlake2002.com. Super Bowl XXXVI clearly had a dramatic impact on the overall dynamics of the Internet. On Sunday February 3, overall U.S. Internet traffic was 23 percent lower during the hours of the game. (comScore — Febraury 5) Forecasts [Prévisions]

	Internet users to hit 1 Billion in 2005. "Dormant" wireless web-enabled phones will contribute heavily to Internet growth, a report says. (MBusinessDaily — April 15) Online advertising in the US is forecast to grow 8.8 percent this year, reports CyberAtlas. (The Nua Survey - January 31)
	Internet [Internet]

	New York Times Digital : $8.3 million profit for 2002, an improvement of $15.6 million over previous year; six consecutive quarters of being in the black. (Poynter.org — January 28) 19 out of 20 (or 95%) use IE as a browser, with Netscape a very distant second, and alternative browsers restricted to use among a small tech savvy niche, according to Web analytics outfit OneStat.com. (The Register — December 17) Research done in 2001 on Internet job hunting showed that more than 18 million people annually post their résumés on Monster.com, an electronic job-search service, and 90 percent of the Fortune 500 use some kind of online recruiting. (Washington Post— December 17) Internet misuse costs American corporations more than $ 85 billion annually in lost productivity — an increase of 35 eprcent since the year prior. (Cyberatlas — December 3) An annual report by the UNCTAD trade and development agency forecast that registered Internet users could total 655 million by the end of 2002, a year-on-year increase of 30%. (USA Today — Nov 18) The value of electronic commerce — goods and services bought and sold over the Internet — could reach as high as $2.3 billion this year, a 50 percent rise from last year, climbing to around $3.9 at the end of 2003. (USA Today — Nov 18) Almost 80 percent of attorneys questioned said that incriminatory e-mails had been part of divorce proceedings, while 65 percent said computer and financial spending records had been incorporated into divorce records. (The Register — Nov 15) New research from comScore Media Metrix indicates that 5.2 million Internet users in the US visited religious websites during September. (Nua — Nov 12) Between November 2001 and April 2002, the online personals market grew 29 percent to 18.6 million users — a whopping 20 percent of the singles population. (Wired — Nov 1) 1 in 5 consumers who have looked for information online have asked their doctor about a disease symptom/diagnosis having read something on the internet. (Europemedia — October 23) Where workers spend time online: Some 23 percent of workers surveyed said they considered news the most addictive Web content, right after online shopping at 24 percent, compared with 18 percent who reported pornography, 8 percent for gambling and 6 percent online auctions. (MSNBC — September 18) WebSense estimates that 35 percent of its customers block employee access to IM in the workplace. (Wired — September 17) Nearly 80 percent of students surveyed said the Internet has added to their college academic experience, while 56 percent said e-mail alone has enhanced their relationships with professors, according to a new survey, released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. (CNN — September 15) More than two-thirds of Americans say it's OK for government agencies to remove public information from the Internet. (digitalmass.com — September 9) A recent study from Forrester Research indicates that North Americans prefer to spend their free time watching television rather than going online. Consumers in North America spend an average of 8.7 hours per week watching TV, compared to just 2.3 hours hours spent online. (Nua Survey — August 30) Web Addiction on the Rise : According to research conducted by employee management firm Websense Inc., 25 percent of employees feel addicted to the Internet. (Cyberatlas — August 21) According to a recent survey, 12.4 million Americans paid for some type of content in the first quarter of this year, compared with 7 million the first quarter of 2001. The survey did not include payments made to pornography sites. (NYTimes— August 1st) With over 3 million pages, over 25 million articles covering 148 years of history and 4 terabytes of data, the New York Times' digitized conversion by ProQuest is unprecedented. (Wired— July 30) Men use computers more than women' claims study. 200 In the nationwide study only 33 percent of women said they felt extremely confident using new technology, compared to 65 percent of men (Ananova— July 23) WorldCom Inc. filed the largest U.S. bankruptcy on Sunday after the long-distance telephone and data services company buckled under a $3.85 billion accounting scandal and a mountain of junk-rated debt. (Yahoo! News— July 22) According to a recent survey among 544 human resources (HR) managers and officers from some of Britain's largest corporations found that almost three-quarters (72 percent) of U.K. firms have had issues with Internet misuse. Online pornography was associated with 69 percent of all dismissals, and accounts for 51 percent of workplace complaints. (Cyberatlas — July 11) While global Internet usage rose by three percent to reach the one billionth computer has been sold, and another billion are expected to be sold over the next six years. (BBC — July 1) While global Internet usage rose by three percent to reach 34 percent from early 2001 to early 2002, the proportion of users making an online purchase in the past four weeks remains at 15 percent, the same as in 2001. (Nua Survey — June 26) Almost 40 percent of those at home use IM, while at-work use is at 31 percent, according to a new study from Nielson/NetRatings. (Cyberatlas — June 25) The Western European Internet security software market grew by 27 percent in 2001 to reach USD 1.6 billion. (Nua Survey — June 25) Google, which receives more than 150 million requests daily, is the first address for conventional internet research with 51 per cent of all queries, according to OneStat.com, a statistics provider. (FT — June 18) More than 100 million people are expected to be playing games on the internet by 2006. (BBC — June 9) A new study from Jupiter Media Metrix indicates that almost 70 percent of US consumers worry that their privacy is at risk online. However, despite their concern, only 40 percent of consumers read privacy statements before handing over personal information to websites. (Nua Survey — June 4) More than one third of all American Internet users have downloaded commercial software online, yet have failed to pay for all the copies they later install. (Nua Surveys — May 31) Federal and state police legally intercepted approximately 2.3 million conversations and pager communications in 2001, spending about $72 million in the process, the federal court system's annual report says. (Wired— May 25) According to an FBI report, about 2,600 Americans said they were victims of the scams in 2001. Sixteen reported losses totaling $345,000, two individuals lost over $70,000 each. (USA Today— May 23) Consumers who pay a fee of $1 or so to buy movie tickets online now make up about 3 percent of box office sales, according to industry estimates, and ticketing executives predict the number will grow to 10 percent or more within a few years. (NYTimes— May 20) Sometime this spring, if all goes as planned, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, will reach a milestone: It will have spent a million years of computer time sifting electromagnetic noise from the sky for a sign that someone or something is trying to get in touch. SETI has accomplished this feat of computational drudgery in just 3 years — by persuading some 3.5 million people to allow their personal computers to be yoked into a loose-knit skein called SETI@home. (IHT— April 25) Experts estimate that the "surface Web" contains 1 billion to 2 billion documents while the "deep Web" could contain as many as 550 billion. There are more than 200,000 deep Web sites more than half of which are located in topic-specific databases. About 95 percent of information on the deep Web is available to the public and is not subject to subscription fees. Yahoo News — April 24 According to a survey from InsightExpress, only 39 percent of Americans read any magazines online, citing reasons such as inconvenience (54 percent ); online banner ads, pop-ups, and general distractions (47 percent ); prices of online magazines (43 percent ); and eye strain. (CyberAtlas — newsletter April 23 — article by Robyn Greenspan) A new study from iLogos Research indicates that 91 percent of the top 500 companies use corporate websites for recruiting. (Nua Suvey — April 12) Nearly 10,000 Americans reported losing $18 million in online scams last year, according to the Internet Fraud Complaint Center's annual report. (USA Today — April 11) Google processes more than 150 million search queries a day through its own site and others, such as Yahoo, that license Google's technology. Google indexes 3 billion Web documents. (USA Today — April 1) About 20 percent of public Web sites that existed nine months ago no longer exist, according to a sample studied last week by the Online Library Computer Center. (NYTimes — March 30) Internet researcher Jupiter Media Metrix estimates that consumers will receive an average of 1,400 junk mails per person by 2006 compared with about 700 a person this year. (News.com — March 21) According to a new survey from Osterman Research, 29.3 percent of companies use instant messaging. (Nua Survey — March 20) In barely four years, Google has become the Internet’s leading search engine, proc-essing 70 million queries a day with its speedy and uncannily accurate means of combing through 3 billion Web pages to find exactly what you want. (Newsweek — March 25 issue) American Greetings has signed up nearly 1 million subscribers since December, when it began charging $11.95 to visit its most popular card sites -- AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com and eGreetings.com. ConsumerReports.org, which counts more than 800,000 subscribers most of whom pay $24 a year to view the online edition of the consumer watchdog magazine. During the first year it charged a fee, online magazine Salon.com signed up 33,000 subscribers who pay $30 annually or $6 monthly. This year, subscriptions will bring in more than $1 million, estimated Salon vice president Patrick Hurley. (CNN — March 18) Internet gamblers may have more serious addictions to the hobby than other gamblers. A US study has found that 74% of people with internet betting experience were a cause for concern. This compared with just 22% of those without any experience of gambling by computer. (Ananova — March 18) 30 percent of teenage girls polled by the Girl Scout Research Institute said they had been sexually harassed in a chat room. (Nua Survey — March 11) 1 in every 20 consumers has been the victim of credit card fraud in the past 12 months, according to a study released Monday by Gartner Inc and 1 in 50 consumers has suffered an identity theft. (MSNBC — March 3) More than half of the world's largest companies keep tabs on their workers' Internet use, according to industry analysts. And nearly two-thirds of companies screen employees' electronic activities. (The Washington Post, February 22) Spysoftware WinWhatWhere has already sold 200'000 copies — to suspicious spouses and to the FBI. (USA Today, February 18) Of the US households that subscribe to magazines, 11 percent subscribed online in the last quarter of 2001, reports eMarketer. (Nua Survey, February 7) According to market research firm Jupiter Media Metrix, 12 million people are now using online personal ads, 4.4 million of them from work — spending an average of 32 minutes with each visit. The firm estimates that during December, 145 million minutes were spent on personal sites in December. (MSNBC, February 6 ) Blogger's "push button editing", run by one person, is used on around 4,000 copies websites. (The Guardian, January 21) Identity theft was the largest complaint on the commission's consumer complaint list last year, representing 42 percent of its 204,000 complaints. (SV.com, January 23) Ten years ago, at the end of 1991, the Net was home to some 727,000 hosts or computers with unique Internet Protocol, or I.P., addresses. By the end of 2001, that number had soared to 175 million. (NY Times — January 10) eBay fell short of its goal to raise $ 100 million in 100 days through charitable auctions for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The effort brought in $ 10 million. (WSJ — January 6) At least 59 nations limit freedom of expression, according to Leonard R. Sussman, author of "Censor.gov.". (Newsbytes — January 4) Sex Online [Sex Onlne]

	The Online Computer Library Centre's annual review found 74,000 adult websites last year, accounting for 2% of sites on the net, and together they bring in profits of more than $1bn. Though many are small scale, with half making $20,000 a year, even that figure is the envy of many mainstream brands. (The Guardian — February 28) 6.5% of male internet population are cybersex addicts. On average, cybersex addicts spend 5.7 hours each week engaging in cybersex. (Europemedia.net — January 8) Wireless Telephony [Téléphonie Mobile]

	More and more people are connecting to the internet via their mobile phones, according to figures from the Mobile Data Association. People in the UK are looking at 11.5 million internet pages each day said the Mobile Data Association in its second monthly report. The monthly total for October is 356 million page impressions, compared to 340 in September. (BBC — December) More than 330,000 tech and telecom jobs have been slashed this year, says outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas. (USA Today — Nov 13) New research from Forrester indicates that only 20 percent of European mobile phone subscribers are likely to adopt 2.5G and 3G applications in the next two years. (Nua Survey — Nov 8) Around 62 percent of all adults across the major European countries now use a mobile phone, according to Gartner Group research. Currently 41 percent of European adults use SMS, compared to 30 percent that use the Internet/email. (Nua Survey — Nov 5) 62 percent of American adults own a cell phone. (Cyberatlas — October 11) 38 percent of US teenagers currently own a cellular phone, compared with about 80 percent of teens in Europe. (Business 2.0 — October) 15 Only 9 million of the US 140 million cell phone users send each other wireless messages, according to recent statistics. (News.com — October) 15 Gartner predicts that global WLAN equipment shipments will grow 73 percent this year, representing a 26 percent increase in revenue. (Wireless NewsFactor— September 20 Wireless usage in the United States will nearly double by 2006 from 2001 levels. According to a study by the Yankee Group, wireless subscribers are expected to increase their monthly minutes of use to 641 by 2006 from 356 in 2001 and 109 in 1994. (Yahoo News — September 16) After telecom was deregulated in 1996, it quickly expanded by some 331,000 jobs before peaking in late 2000. Since the downturn started, though, companies have announced layoffs that have wiped out all those new jobs and more -- a total of well over 500,000 workers according to a tally by The Wall Street Journal. (WSJ — August 19) 33 percent of Britons claim that their enjoyment at a public event has been reduced because of a disturbance by a mobile phone. (Cyberatlas — July 17) Discarded cell phones will contribute 65,000 tons of trash and toxic metals to landfills in the next three years, a new study reports. (Wired — May 7) China is currently the largest mobile phone market in the world with 130 million users followed by the US with 124 million users. (BBC, February 19) Vodafone has topped the 100 million customer mark. The company now has networks in 28 countries, and says this underlines its position as the world's mobile communications leader. (Ananova — January 22 ) Viruses / Attacks [Les virus / Les Attaques]

	About 80,000 viruses now exist, having grown at a rate of around 600-700 new ones each month in 2002, similar to that of 2001, but down from 800-900 a month the year before. (Washington Post — January 14) During the year 2002, Sophos detected 7,189 new viruses, worms and Trojan horses, bringing the total number of bugs on its books to more than 78,000. (The Register — December 6) Web vandalism is on the rise around the world. In the past two weeks, Zone-H.org proprietor Roberto Preatoni said defacements have increased to more than 500 separate attacks a day and more than 1,500 over weekends. A year ago, he said, his site got around 30 to 50 defacement notices a day from hackers. (Internet News — October 22) A recent survey found that many firms are still exposing themselves to viruses and according to the Department of Trade and Industry 17% of UK firms have no form of anti-virus protection. (BBC — September 12) 59 percent percent of top security officials believe computer attacks pose the biggest concern to their company over physical attacks (8 percent) or electronic attacks with physical consequences (3 percent). (Nando Times — August 29) Today, 0.6% to 0.7% of e-mail carries a virus, according to estimates by a Network Associates Internet-service-provider partner. (WSJ — August 23) A recent report by the Computer Security Institute found that 90 percent of businesses and government agencies detected security breaches within the last 12 months. (BBC — July 18) The Klez-H virus accounts for almost 30% of all infections reported to the Sophos helpdesk. It has been breaking records since appearing in its 8th variant in March. (Ananova — July 3) Computer viruses are proliferating faster than ever, according to British security company MessageLabs, which reported Tuesday that it caught as many pests in the first half of 2002 as it did in all of last year. (Yahoo / ZDNet — June 18) Klez-H is the worst virus ever. MessageLabs is blocking 20,000 Klez-H infected emails per day. The virus accounts for 1 in 300 of the e-mails it scans. (The Register— May 27) 48% of large companies blame their worst security incident on employees. Incidents include everything from virus outbreaks, browsing inappropriate pages using company computers, committing fraud or cracking corporate computer systems from the inside. (BBC— April 29) Symantec said it is receiving over 3,000 submissions a day of W32.Klez and its variants. At the peak of the SirCam virus, in mid-2001, the company received about 1,500 daily submissions, Symantec of Cupertino, California, said in a statement Thursday. (IT World— April 26) According to security firm mi2g, the Israeli domain .il has been the biggest victim of web defacements over the past three years, suffering 548 of the 1,295 attacks in the Middle East. (BBC — April 16) Newsbytes reports that nearly 90 percent of US businesses and government agencies suffered hacker attacks within the past year. (Nua Survey — April 8) Viruses continue to swarm U.S. corporations, with roughly 1.2 million incidents occurring in a 20-month period, according to a new study. (Yahoo News — March 3) 35 percent of UK companies have suffered at least one IT security breach in the past year, with some firms reporting as many as five incidents, a survey of 100 IT managers has found. (cw2350 — March) Antivirus firm MessageLabs said it had trapped nearly 7,000 copies of the "My Party" virus by Monday morning. (MSNBC, January 28) Computer Economics has published its assessment of the damage worldwide caused by malicious code attacks in 2001 - the figure comes in at a whopping $13.2 billion. (The Register, January 16) Viruses: Nimda, SirCam, Code Red and friends caused more than 50,000 security incidents last year. But experts say the estimates of billions in clean-up costs are pure guesswork. (Wired — January 14) Viruses: Computer viruses on the internet have risen fivefold in the past two years, with one security firm now finding a bug on clients' servers every 30 seconds on average. (The Guardian— January 13) E-Mail and Spam [Courriel et Spam]

	According to a new study from Ferris Research, unsolicited email cost US corporations USD 8.9 billion last year. Productivity losses accounted for as much as 40 percent of overall financial losses associated with spam. Ferris estimates that office workers waste around 4.5 seconds deleting each email message. (Nua Survey — January 8) 1 in every 212 e-mails this year contained a virus, according to computer security firm MessageLabs. The average throughout the whole of 2001 was 1 in every 380 e-mails, while in 200 it was 1 in every 790. (Ananova— December 13) Spam will overtake real e-mail in 2003. 1 in every 212 emails contained a computer virus in the second half of this year. (MSNBC — December 12) A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that overwhelming levels of e-mail are quite atypical, an outcome that surprised even the researchers. In fact 60 percent of Americans who use e-mail at work receive 10 or fewer messages on an average day, the study released Sunday found. Only 6 percent receive more than 50. (Nando Times — December) 31 percent of Americans change e-mail addresses each year, in part to evade spammers, according to a new study. Return Path estimates e-mail churn cost businesses between $ 3 billion and $ 4 billion in 2000 due to lost sales, wasted e-mail acquisition marketing and unnecessary e-mail delivery costs.This means marketers potentially lose one.third of their database every year. Because e-marketers typically spend between $ 5 and $ 57per customer, the loss could range from $ 1.1 million to $ 12.8 million for a company with 1 million customers. (Wired — Nov 8) The amount of junk e-mail in inboxes has risen by over 80% since the beginning of the year. According to a monthly report from filtering firm MessageLabs, one in six e-mails is now spam, an alarming 64% increase on September and up a massive 81% since January. BBC Nov 6) Researchers are warning the continued rise in email use could soon produce more messages than we can cope with. The International Data Corporation's latest report predicts 60 billion will be sent every day by 2006. The report puts the current daily email count at 31 billion. (Ananova — September 27) Junk email on the increase: A survey by email publishing outfit emedia claims that nearly 90 per cent of companies it surveyed aims to increase their spending on email marketing over the next 12 months. (The Register — September 24 20 percent of the companies surveyed admitted monitoring Internet usage on a daily basis, compared to just 11%18 months ago. (Ananova / digitalmass.com — September 3) On a typical day, Hotmail subscribers collectively receive more than 1 billion pieces of junk e-mail. Such spam accounts for 80 percent of messages received -- not including mail blocked by Hotmail's first line of filters (CNN— August 4) According to an Experian survey on email usage, 60 percent of employees have sent an email to a work colleague sat next to them. (Nua Survey — June 6) According to an industry survey in 2001, nearly 47 percent of large corporations store and review e-mail messages -- three times more companies than in 1997. (CNN — June 3) Spam : by the numbers by the WSJ — May 28: 7,999 : Price of the "Grand Slam Package" from MonsterHut.com, which promises to deliver 25 million e-mails to consumers. 0.00032 cents : Cost of one e-mail address to that spammer 63 : Percentage of links in spam that failed when users attempted to be removed from a mailing list, according to an FTC study. 25 : Percentage of all e-mail messages in 2002 that qualify as spam, according to Gartner Inc. 8 million : The number of spam messages the FTC has collected from consumers since 1998 76 billion : Number of spam e-mails that will be delivered in 2003, according to eMarketer. British workersworkers spend an average of 49 minutes a day to sort through their inboxes. By comparison, working parents spend an average of just 25 minutes each day playing with their children, according to the study findings. (Nua Survey — May 20) For those who use e-mail primarily at home, unwanted e-mail marketing messages comprise about 37 percent of users' mailboxes — more than personal correspondence (26 percent) or permission-based mailings (24 percent) (Cyberatlas — May 16) Unsolicited email costs us billions and wastes hundreds of hours of our time: — If the average user gets 20 spams a day, that's 7,300 per year. — If each message takes only 10 seconds to download, scan and delete, that consumes about 20 hours a year. — If your time is only worth 10$ an hour that is still $200 a year. And for 600m users, the cost comes to $120bn a year. (The Guardian — April 18) According to a study by security company Indicii Salus, 87 percent of UK workers have read an employer’s private mail on at least one occasion. (Nua Survey — March 22) A UK study of white-collar workers in major cities found: — 38% use e-mail to point out others' mistakes while jockeying to advance their careers. — London is the biggest hotbed of electronic backstabbing with 55% using e-mails for political gain. — Nearly 30% of those surveyed admitted to sending racist, sexist, pornographic or discriminatory e-mails whilst at work. (BBC — March 4) Unsolicited messages now 20 percent off all AT&T World Net traffic. (MSNBC - February 22) The average office worker spends about three hours a day sending and receiving some 150 electronic messages. Figures from British Telecom show that last year - for the first time - the amount of data we sent each other through email exceeded voice traffic. We email more than we talk. (The Guardian — February 24) Of the 30,000 e-mail comments it has received on the Microsoft antitrust settlement, only 10 percent were legit, the Justice Department says. Lots of insults, and even some porn. (Wired, February 7) E-mail continues to be the nation's favorite online activity, and 45 percent of the population now uses it regularly, up from 35 percent in 2000. The FTC receives approximately 10,000 individual pieces of spam every day from irate consumers who forward the unbidden missives to the agency.(Washtech.com, January 31) Internet users, on average, received 1,470 messages from spammers in 2001, according to the research firm Jupiter/Media Metrix. (Washtech.com, January 24) E-Mail: In 2001, an estimated 1.4 trillion messages, trillion, were sent from businesses alone in North America, up from 40 billion in 1995, according to research firm International Data Corp. (MSNBC — January 10) Jupiter Media Metrix, an internet market research company, says the average American received 571 spam messages in 2001 and predicts that, by 2006, that person will receive 1,479. (The Guardian — January 6)
	Dotcom Economy [La Net Economie]

	Silicon Valley lost 127,000 jobs, or about 9% of its total employment, from the first quarter of 2001 to the second quarter of 2002. (NY Times — January 19) More than 130 companies with dot-com in their name still exist in the 9'154 company database maintained by Multex.com Inc., itself a surviving dot-com. Of those companies, just 26 trade for more than $1 a share. (WSJ — December 18) More than 330,000 tech and telecom jobs have been slashed this year, says outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas. (USA Today — Nov 13) Venture capitalists and their investors lost $15.3 billion on startups founded since 1999 that went belly-up before they could sell their shares, according to a report by San Francisco-based research company VentureOne. (Seattle Times — September 23 Nearly one in five start-ups backed with venture capital at the peak of the Internet boom went out of business before first-stage investors could sell their shares, a study finds. (News.com — September 20 IBM job cuts exceed 15,600. Total employees laid off in latest round of job cuts is more than twice what some estimated. (CNN — August 12) During the first nine months of fiscal year 2002, 159,000 high-tech visas were awarded to foreign workers, compared with 270,000 in the same period last year and 220,000 two years ago. (Washington Post— August 15) Although July showed the lowest number of job cuts in 14 months in the U.S., the dot-com sector suffered yet another blow, with layoff figures jumping 156 percent from the month before. (Cyberatlas— August 7) Dotcom job losses soared 156 percent in July to 1,750, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. (Nua Survey— August 6) The number of dotcom job cuts in January was the lowest in 19 months, reports Newsbytes. The total number of dotcom job losses since December 1999 is 144,242. Over 100,000 of those jobs were lost in 2001. (Nua Survey, February 4 ) Forrester Research: Reduced information technology budgets have taken their toll on IT research companies with Forrester Research cutting 22 per cent of its workforce, or 126 jobs. (FT — January 10)
	Music [Musique]

	According to a Pew Internet and American Life Project study, about 60 percent of college students have downloaded music files, compared with just 28 percent of the general population. (News.com — September 15) CD music sales decreased 7% in the US during the first half of the year due to online music, a trade group says. (Ananova — August 23) More than 200 net radio stations have closed, and 10'000 are expected to follow, due federal copyright royalty fees that go into effect in September. (USA Today— July 22) Around 40 million Americans have downloaded digital music or MP3 files from file-sharing services on the Internet. This is equivalent to one-fifth of the population. (Nua Survey — June 14) Worldwide sales of pirated music CDs nearly doubled last year to a record 950 million units an industry trade group said Tuesday. (Nando Times — June 11) 23 percent over the age of 12, or over 50 million people, have downloaded music from the Internet. (Nua Survey, February 4 )
	Video Games [Jeux Vidéos]

	In the US last year, video games grossed more than cinema. In the UK, the games industry made more money than cinema, video sales and video rental combined. According to the industry's own figures, together the US and UK video games markets were worth around £5bn in 2001. (The Guardian— December 19) Video game console revenue surpassed movie box office receipts in the U.S. for the second consecutive year, with substantial increases expected. Jupiter Research found that roughly 10 percent of online adults currently own a game system and, surprisingly, the average age of console owners is 23. (Cyberatlas — Nov 1) Despite the perception that gamers are pimply-faced Bart Simpsons, the average video-game player in the United States is 28 years old according to the International Digital Software Association. Retail sales of video games totaled $9.4 billion last year, a 42 percent increase over the $6.6 billion in sales in 2000, and even more than Hollywood took in at the box office last year. Grand Theft Auto 3 is hardly the only big seller among mature games, which in 2001 accounted for 9.2 percent of all video- game sales and are the fastest-growing sector of the market, according to the NPD Funworld, a retail research firm. (NY Times — May 12)



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