Source: Pew Internet

Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week), according to IDC. This is equivalent to almost half of the total time spent each week using all media (70.6 hours), almost twice as much time as spent watching television (16.4 hours), and more than eight times as much time as […]

In 2001 19% of US employers told ePolicy institute they were monitoring time logged on and keystrokes. In 2005, it was 36%. In 2007 that number had grown to 45%.

Vertical search is not prevalently utilized by users of the big-three search engines (Google, Yahoo! and MSN). 35% of search engine users do not use vertical search, and 25% do not recall if they have clicked a result after having used vertical search (60% combined), according to iProspect.
A result presented after an “image search” […]

The number of internet users in the five major countries is approaching 46.3 mln, a 16% increase from the 39.8 mln in January 2007, according to an Analytics 2.0.
The number of Puerto Rican and US Hispanic internet users has grown at the same rate, bringing the total to 66 mln. 60% of total internet […]

This is an interesting statistic that I read.
Research suggests that prospective customers really do want to hear from you after your phone call or sales presentation. Email might be a good thing to do.
50%+ of consumers are open to receiving an interactive follow-up when they are interested in as company.
66% of men in the age […]

35.5% of all web users 18 years and older are spending three or more hours per day on the Internet, and four out of every ten 18-34 year olds exceeding three hours daily.
Interestingly, among web surfers 18 years and older an average of 15 minutes of every online hour is done from the workplace. […]

64% of online teens were Content Creators during 2007, according to Pew Internet & American Life Project. Content creators are online teens who have created or worked on a blog or a Web page, shared original creative content, or remixed content they found online into a new creation. That is an increase from 57% who […]

More than 50% of the companies surveyed said they do not allow employees to access typical Web 2.0 services from work –such as social networking sites, Internet video sites (YouTube) or virtual worlds (Second Life) – because they view such services a waste of the employee’s and the company’s time, according to IDC.

63% of Americans admit to using the same password or a variation of it for all or most of their online accounts. 6.7% use a variation of a familiar password for most of their online accounts. 22.9% use the same password for most of their online accounts. 3.5% use the same password for all their […]

Venture capitalists invested $928 million in Indian companies in 2007, a significant 166% jump compared to 2006 level, VentureBeat reports.

Gen Y Americans (those aged between 18 and 26) spend 12.2 hours online every week, 28% longer than 27-40-year-old Gen Xers and almost twice as long as 51-61-year-old Older Boomers. Gen Yers are also much more likely to engage in social computing activities while online, Forrester Research claims. For example, they are 50% more likely […]

1 - Of the 43% of Americans that have calculated the amount of assets needed for retirement, only 3% of that group believes an accumulation of at least $2M will be required (source: USA Today).
2 - If the price of a gallon of milk is $3.89, then a barrel of milk would cost $163.38 […]

Total spending on U.S. direct-mail services reached $60.6 Billion in 2006 and it’s expected to reach $73.6 Billion by 2009. The data is taken from WinterBerry Group.

Deleting spam costs U.S. business nearly $22 Billion a year in wasted time, according to a research by University of Maryland.