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Internet use cutting into TV viewing and socializing
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[print version] Internet use cutting into TV viewing and socializing | CNET News.com: “Internet use cutting into TV viewing and socializing
By John Markoff
http://news.com.com/Internet use cutting into TV viewing and socializing/2100-1026_3-5507547.html
Story last modified Thu Dec 30 07:48:00 PST 2004
The average Internet user in the United States spends three hours a day online, with much of that time devoted to work and more than half of it to communications, according to a survey conducted by a group of political scientists.
The survey found that use of the Internet has displaced television watching and a range of other activities. Internet users watch television for one hour and 42 minutes a day, compared with the national average of two hours, said Norman H. Nie, director of the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, a research group that has been exploring the social consequences of the Internet.
‘People don’t understand that time is hydraulic,’ he […]
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Netcraft goes fishing for phishers
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Netcraft goes fishing for phishers | CNET News.com
“Netcraft has released an Internet Explorer plug-in that could help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud.
The Internet security company heralded the plug-in toolbar, which displays information about the Web sites a surfer is visiting, as a strong weapon against phishing attacks.
“The Netcraft Toolbar provides you with constantly updated information about the sites you visit as well as blocking dangerous sites,” the company, best known for providing statistics on what software Web sites are running, stated in a posting. “This information will help you make an informed choice about the integrity of those sites.”
The toolbar displays information about the popularity of a site, the country in which the site is hosted and the Internet address of the site. It also indicates whether other toolbar users have flagged the site as a possible phishing scam, which use fake Web sites that look like they […]
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