A study by Nielsen into the habits of Internet users in the United States of America might provide a guideline as to future Internet user habits round the globe, since the USA sets the trend in virtual reality. What were the findings of this study? For a start, a huge disparity in Internet access via PC and mobile means. And by 2014, the video will dominate nearly 100% of web-use?
*comScore Releases Report, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet*
Reston, VA July 28, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a global report on women’s online usage titled, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, whichprovides an in-depth analysis of the female Internet user, highlighting key trends by Internet activity, worldwide region and digital channel.
Among its results, the report found that social networking sites reach a higher percentage of women than men globally, with 75.8 percent of all women online visiting a social networking site in May 2010 versus 69.7 percent of men. To download a copy of Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, please visit: www.comscore.com/WomenOnTheWeb
*Larsson is the first author to join the new “Kindle Million Club”*
SEATTLE, Jul 27, 2010 — Amazon.com, Inc., today announced that Stieg Larsson, author of the internationally bestselling Millennium Trilogy, has become the first author to sell over 1 million Kindle books and is the first member of the new “Kindle Million Club.”
*Amazon’s Kindle Store now exclusively offering 20 books from The Wylie Agency’s new Odyssey Editions imprint*
SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature’s most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint (www.odysseyeditions.com) and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).
This is the first time any of the titles–which include Norman Mailer’s “The Naked and the Dead,” Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”–have been available electronically, and all of the books are exclusive to the Kindle Store for two years.
*Paul McCartney and Daughters Publish Booklet for Vegetarian Newspaper – -Newspaper speaks of the campaign promoted by the former Beatle in order to avoid eating meat on Mondays.*
Paul McCartney and daughters, Mary and Stella, are helping to publish a special supplement of a healthy and very tasty vegetarian diet of foods published by the British Sunday newspaper “The Observer.”