"Online news sources deliver a powerful combination of breaking news and deep insight, feeding their audience with round-the-clock content," said Carolyn Clark, Internet analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings. "As world news and negative Wall Street reports dominated headlines last week, office workers stayed on top of the action online."

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ComScore Networks said its research shows almost 60 percent of U.S. Web purchases last year, or $27 billion worth, happened in the workplace. ComScore estimated the average worker spent 90 minutes shopping online at work in the second quarter, or about 1.3 minutes a day.

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The Internet research firm comScore found that almost half of Internet users have both their PC and their television set in the same room. Almost half of them – approximately 20 million people - watch TV and use the Net at the same time.

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From the Center of Media Research:

At Work Internet Use Peaks Between 10am and Noon
According to a recent report from Nielsen//NetRatings, roughly 46 million people in the US went online from work in August 2002, and eMarketer estimates that there will be 152.8 million US net users this year.

And, while the at-home user growth was between three and four percent throughout the year from the same month last year, the at-work growth was 17 percent in August against last year, holding double-digit growth since April.

According to August 2002 hour-by-hour usage data, Nielsen also finds that prime usage hours at work are between 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M., when 86% of at-work users surveyed were logged on. This compares to at-home usage, which is highest in the evening between 5:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. (which makes sense considering people are usually coming home from work around that time of day).

In 2001, Forrester Research estimated that 55% of internet users in North America went online from home and work.

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The battle between independent content and the corporate world. Both sides are using the Internet for public relations.

KMART FIGHTS BACK ON THE WEB
Kmart (KM), which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year, has launched a Web site to defend itself from critics. " Kmart Forever is a community gathering place for employees, retirees, friends, family and supporters of Kmart," explains a message on the site. "Kmart started this site after receiving thousands of emails, calls and letters from people like you asking how they can help support the company." Disgruntled employees and unhappy customers have been using the Web and sites like Mart Sucks to complain. Response for the corporate site has been mild, with fewer than 75 messages posted since the site launched in August. That compares to 7,171 comments apparently posted on another anti-Kmart site.

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Here is a great article on Google from Forbes magazine:

All the Right Moves
Google has all the trappings of the hot dot-coms that came before it. But is it smart enough to avoid suffering the same fate.

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GOOGLE ADDS NEWS SEARCH
Google has revamped and expanded its news search service to include 4,000 English-language sources. Google News presents real-time reports according to categories, including business, entertainment, sports and general news, and groups items together. For instance, on Monday morning someone looking for recaps of the Emmys could have reviewed 172 items. "Google employs no editors, managing editors, or executive editors," the company said. "It (is) a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention." The service is free, and does not carry advertising. Google executives plan to monitor activity and decide later how to generate revenues from the service.

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* 20% of today’s college students began using computers between the ages of 5 and 8. By the time they were 16 to 18 years old all of today’s current college students had begun using computers.
* Eighty-six percent of college students have gone online, compared with 59% of the general population.
* 72% checking email at least once a day.
* 49% first began using the Internet in college; 47% first began using it at home before they arrived at college.
* 85% of college students own their own computer, and 66% use at least two email addresses.
* Seventy-eight percent of college Internet users say that at one time or another they have gone online just to browse for fun, compared to 64% of all Internet users.
* College Internet users are twice as likely to have ever downloaded music files when compared to all Internet users: 60% of college Internet users have done so compared to 28% of the overall population.
* 79% agree that Internet use has had a positive impact on their college academic experience.
* 73% of college students say they use the Internet more than the library.

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Quick summary of the top spots of the Nielson/NetRatings Audience Measurement Data for the Week ending September 1, 2002. Please let me know if you would like the rest of the information from the study.
The top e-commerce spots are owned by eBay (by a lot. Approx. 12%), Amazon (8.7%) and Yahoo! Shopping (6.3%); 1,2 and 3 in active reach, respectively. e-commerce is 51.8% owned by women and 37.7% made up of people 45 y/o and older. 33.6% is owned by those 39-45 y/o.

For informational sites, CNN and The About Network are close with over 5.5% each in active reach and is very similar to e-commerce in the age and gender demographics.

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A Jupiter Research study estimates consumers will receive an average of 3,900 "spam" messages a year by 2007. Today, the typical e-mail user gets 6.2 unsolicited items daily in their in-box, the researchers say.

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Consumers are making TV interactive to meet their needs:

comScore Media Metrix reported that 48% of Internet users regularly watch television and have a television and PC in the same room.

The analysis also determined that 47% are regular television viewers but do not have a television and PC in the same room. The remaining 5% of Internet users report they do not watch television at all.

Among the 45.1 million wired adults that have television and PC in the same room, nearly half (47%) reported they frequently use the Internet while watching television, 29% reported occasionally, 18% reported rarely and only 5% reported never doing so.

Multi-tasking your entertainment:

Interestingly enough, while some Internet activity during TV viewing is associated with television content, the majority is not. comScore says that 15% of those with a television and PC in the same room reported visiting a website about the television show being watched; 11% reported sending email or chatting online about a show being watched; 11% reported searching for listings or television reviews; and 10% reported researching or browsing products featured on a television show or in an advertisement. Conversely, 74% reported conducting other online activities unrelated to the television show being watched; and 52% reported using the computer for offline activities.

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For those who choose to take advantage of an opportunity that the Internet enables:

ONLINE CIGARETTE SALES ARE SMOKING
Sales at NCCigarettes.com almost doubled in the past two months. Credit a dramatic rise in cigarette taxes in New York City, as well as similar moves by 19 states this year. The site's owner, Scott Herring, told the Associated Press monthly sales have soared to $25,000. As much as 60 percent of those sales go to buyers in New York and New Jersey, he says, thanks to those states' $1.50 a pack taxes, compared to North Carolina's nickel a pack. Federal law requires online sellers to report such sales to the purchaser's state's tax officials, but antismoking advocates complain the law is not enforced. Forrester Research estimates online cigarette sales will top $1 billion this year, costing states hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.

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Internet Week > Security > Linux Worm Is Spreading Rapidly > September 16, 2002

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YAHOO BUNDLES PREMIUM PACKAGES WITH DSL
High-speed Internet service introduced today by Yahoo (YHOO) and SBC Communications (SBC) includes personalization features which can be customized to support 10 users per household, as well as services including free classified ads, Consumer Reports content, online bill payment and 110 MB of online storage. The package, being introduced in 13 states, is priced from $42.95 a month. Higher-speed options are available at higher prices.

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Hotmail had 1 million subscribers at the end of 1996 and boasts 110 million today. Yahoo does not disclose its numbers.

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Recently, several research studies found that the best way to reach people during the workday is via online advertising. Add another research report to that list. Yesterday, Nielsen//NetRatings reported that the active Internet population at work grew 17% in August as compared to a year ago. Nearly 46 million American office workers logged onto the Web, the highest peak since Nielsen//NetRatings began measuring the at-work audience in January 2000.

Additionally, NetRatings says that while men still outnumber women, female office workers were the primary drivers of traffic growth, as the group grew 23% year-over-year to 20.4 million, outpacing the growth rate for men. The number of men logging onto the Internet from work rose 12% since last August, increasing to nearly 25.3 million surfers.

In addition, men spent more time, accessed more sessions and viewed more pages than women. Men averaged nearly 31 hours time spent in August, as compared to nearly 27 hours for female office workers. They initiated an average of 54 sessions a month, compared to 50 for women, while viewing more than 1900 pages. Women accessed fewer than 1700 page views last month.

According to hour-by-hour analysis from Nielsen//NetRatings, online usage at-work begins at 8 a.m. and tailors off around 4 p.m., with peak hours between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., and overall usage climbing to 86%. In contrast, the primetime hours of surfing at-home increase in the afternoon and hit a peak at 8 p.m., reaching 58% of Web usage.

"Web marketers are beginning to realize the consumer reach potential at work, as online usage at the office gains traction," said Charles Buchwalter, VP of client analytics at Nielsen//NetRatings. "The strong presence of the Internet within the workplace makes the Web a powerful complement to traditional media buys, where morning and evening consumption often dominates."

- Masha E. Geller, Editor-in-Chief of Mediapost Communications.

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According to Pew Internet & American Life Project, close to 30,000 sites dedicated to the event were created between Sept. 11 and Dec. 1, and yesterday scores of discussion boards filled with poignant reflections on the meaning of the day. To quote one Reuters reporter, the outpouring of emotion "seemed almost to give the medium a heart."

- Masha Geller from Mediapost Communications.

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) threatened to strip VeriSign of its ability to sell ".com" domain names unless the registrar corrects inaccuracies in the public database that records who owns which Web sites. ICANN claims that Verisign "blatantly ignored" its obligations to fix inaccuracies in its "Whois" database, citing 17 violations over the past 18 months.

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Habeas: Services The heart of the Habeas program is our patent-pending Sender Warranted Email system. What this means is that any email sent under the Habeas system is warranted (guaranteed) not to be spam, and meets our exacting standards for a Habeas Compliant MessageSM. Habeas has some of the strictest standards in the industry, including only permitting mailing lists that are verified opt-in. When you receive a Habeas Sender Warranted Email, you can accept and read it with confidence that it is "the email you want".

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