Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing
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The average Internet user in the U.S. spends three hours a day online, with much of that time devoted to work and more than half of it to communications.
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Pro and amateur videos, social networking and even streaming TV shows are luring audiences to the Web, study shows
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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MySpace, the internet site specialising in social networking, claims to be drawing young people away from television and video games as they use its web pages to make friends and money.
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A recently released study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project states that Internet users have become more aware of their digital footprint.
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Most U.S. parents said their  children had encountered "issues" like bad language, sex or  advertising online over the past year, but they are not  stopping their kids' Internet use, according to a new study.
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The internet is second only to television as a source of science information for most Americans, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the Exploratorium.
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American parents are troubled about how much their kids play and  interact with media including everything from downloading music onto  iPods, social networking on the Internet, playing video games to  watching TV.
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If you haven't already been scared away from using your cell phone, now researchers are checking whether frequent usage can slow brain function.
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Surfing the net has become an  obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults  feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one  in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
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WASHINGTON Oct 25, 2004 - Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers.
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One Wired News correspondent cuts his connection to the cable company and doesn't look back. Can the internet supply enough video programming to entertain a family of five? By Robert Lemos.
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What the Internet tells us about how the media, advertising and awareness months spread information on diseases and illnesses
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This week Anthony Hendon wrote in with a question for our Green Doctor.   He asks: "Like a lot of people, I'm using my computer more and more for entertainment and my TV less and less.
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Web portal Yahoo and media agency OMD unveiled the findings of an Internet Deprivation Study examining consumers&#39; media habits and their emotional connection to the internet.
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Representatives of older and new media companies detailed their embraces of the Internet Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, with supposed old-line companies emphasizing opportunities and dismissing any threats to longstanding business models.Executives from CBS, Comcast, Joost, and Current participated in panel sessions on media operations and the Internet. While the Internet might be seen as potentially taking viewers away from traditional broadcast and cable television, panelists noted that TV viewership still accounts for several hours per person daily and continues on its 30-year trend upward.Comcast and CBS officials both noted that the Internet can extend their businesses."We love the Internet for a variety of reasons," said Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media, which is responsible for the cable TV provider's Internet businesses. People use Comcast's pipe to access the Internet and Comcast is the largest residential ISP, she said.But Comcast also believes in cable TV and that it will be around for a while, she said. "People thought that with television, radio would disappear and with cable television, broadcast television would disappear, and we all know that that hasn?t happened," Banse said.The Internet has enabled CBS to extend beyond its largely U.S.-based audience and to gain "new eyeballs," said Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, which covers Internet operations. "We, CBS, have not found the Internet to be cannibalistic to television," Smith said.Persons who see a two-minute clip of a CBS show, such as "How I Met Your Mother," might be encouraged to watch the program, he said. He recalled how a recent clip of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton showed up on YouTube and drew a lot of traffic; this was embraced by CBS, which carries Letterman's show.Asked by panel moderator Josh Quittner, of Fortune magazine, if she was worried about Google, Banse dismissed this."You want me to be a dinosaur running scared. I'm really not," she said. Google has been a "wonderful partner" for Comcast, with people accessing the search site via the Comcast pipe, said Banse.?In a subsequent panel session, officials from Joost, which provides broadcast-quality Internet television service, and Current, which blends broadcast TV with interactive Internet communications, shared their companies' visions."We wanted to bring the magic of the Internet to television, not the dumbness of television to the Internet," said Joel Hyatt, co-founder and CEO of Current. A community has been fostered to submit video that can be viewed on Current TV.Joost, meanwhile, is making peer-to-peer-based video distribution software that can run on PCs and the Macintosh, said Mike Volpi, Joost CEO. High-quality is streamed, with some of it professionally created by companies such as CBS and Viacom. Other content is developed by persons who are not so familiar. Joost is trying to develop an advertising-supported model.Both Joost and Current embrace advertising as a business model."I believe advertising is definitely the way to go," Volpi said. Advertising thus far has not blended well on the Internet because it has been offered in the form of banner ads or keywords, he said. But there are plenty of ad dollars to be gained by going after targeted users, he said.
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More than three-quarters of residential Web users got on the Internet using a high-speed broadband connection in November, according to a study released Tuesday.