Thursday, July 23, 2009

Pew study finds rising tide of wireless Internet - InternetNews.com

It's no secret that smartphones are all the rage or that Americans are fond of surfing the Web on the go. But a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project reveals just how quickly the wireless Internet is catching on.

On an average day, 19 percent of the survey respondents told Pew that they access the Internet with a mobile device. While that mark is obviously a decided minority, it represents a 73 percent increase since December of 2007, when Pew conducted a similar study...