Colleagues/ The Latest Pew Internet & American Life report > Pew Internet Report: Wireless Internet Use / July 22 2009 <http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2009/07/pew-internet-report-wirele ss-internet.html> /Gerry 56% Of All Americans Have Accessed The Internet By Wireless Means Overviw An April 2009 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project asked respondents whether they had used a variety of devices - laptops, cell phones, game consoles, and more - to go online using a wireless network. Altogether, 56% of Americans said they have at some point used wireless means for online access. * 39% of all Americans have used a laptop computer to go online wirelessly, making this the most prevalent means of wireless access. * 32% of all Americans have gotten online with a mobile device - meaning they have used a cell phone or other handheld device to check email, access the internet for information, or send instant messages. [snip Use of the internet on mobile devices has grown sharply from the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2009. [more] Links To HTM and PDF versions of the Full Report available at [ http://tinyurl.com/mxqrtt ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed / Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace