America Leads Countries in Internet Usage
Released on: August 9, 2007 8:00am
America Leads Countries in Internet UsageAlthough America leads other countries in its Internet usage, other countries besides the US account for 80% of Internet users. Currently, there are 750 million web users across the globe and the Internet population continues to grow every year. Just last year, the Internet audience grew by 10%. Among the countries with the greatest increase in Internet usage are: Russia, India, and the country with the largest populace, China. China in fact now boasts the second largest Internet population, behind the US. It has 87 million users while the United States has 153.4 million.
The Internet's background is rather modest. It started small and in fact was initially intended as a network to be used only by the military and by scientists. However, the Internet's true potential was soon realized so that now, millions of people rely on the Internet for everything from shopping to reading news, booking tickets for travel, and even work.
Read More . . .Cellular Generation Changing Cultures
Released on: August 5, 2007 8:00am
Cellular Generation Changing Culture Customs
Cell phones and PC’s have gone from expensive luxuries for businesses to become the preferred business communications tools of the Cellular Generation (C.G.). C.G.’s have similar age profile to Generation Y and grew up with this technology in their home. Just as we look at generational differences to help us understand work ethics and motivations, we can see and track generational business trends. While one group tends to have a more utilitarian view of cellular, others view phone text messaging, instant messaging (IM), phone photos, and cell phones as a ‘fashion statement’ and a lifestyle requirement, similar to oxygen.
Read More . . .Who Makes What In America
Released on: July 23, 2007 8:00am
Who Makes What In America
It's only natural to be curious. Have the six figure salary earners suddenly become the majority? If you’ve noticed the person at the gym, the social gathering, and the person sitting beside on the airplane seems to be saying they are making six figures salaries, some of them may be expanding on their financial facts of life.
The actual list of America's top earners contains many expected results (chief executives and lawyers), as well as some that may come as a surprise (air traffic controllers, astronomers). And, of course, there's still plenty of proof that it pays to have an MD: surgeons and physicians dominate the list. Here's a look at some median salaries of America's highest-paying jobs, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Read More . . .Online Sales Double Digit Growth
Released on: July 20, 2007 8:00am
Online Shopping To Soar 18 PercentThe pundits forecasting internet sales saturation had it wrong – again. Online sales are expected to soar in ’07 by nearly 18 percent. According to a recent report, total 2007 online sales are expected to rise to $259.1 billion. Online purchases excluding travel will reach $174.5 billion. This strong growth will come off of an impressive performance in 2006. Total 2006 online sales last year rose 25 percent to $219.9 billion. Excluding travel, online retail sales rose 29 percent to $146.5 billion, representing six percent of total retail sales in 2006.*
Read More . . .Web 2.0 Can Mean Streaming Media
Released on: July 17, 2007 8:00am
Web 2.0 Can Mean Streaming MediaStreaming media is the delivery method allowing the recipient to watch or listen to the information as it travels along a communications network. “Streaming,” moving quickly into the mainstream vernacular, means to access audio and video content. “Streaming” is more like the faucet than the water. You may have ‘streamed’ and not even known it. When you visit a news site, click and watch the brief video, you are streaming. Streaming music is a fact of life. After surviving the free versus fee music download issues and the introduction of iPod, music streaming has traveled well along its adoption curve. Video’s journey has just begun.
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