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US online retail sales increased by 3.7% in the second quarter of 2002, but market share slipped to 1.2%, according to the US Commerce Department. New figures show that ecommerce sales totalled $10.24 million, up from $9.88 million in the first quarter of the year. However online purchases were up by 24.2% year on year.… Continue reading US Ecommerce Sales Exceed $10 Million In Q2

The number of US broadband subscribers is likely to treble in the next five years, according to a study by the Leichtman Research Group. Analysts estimate that 12.5 million US households had high-speed access to the internet at the end of the first quarter of 2001. This is set to increase to 37.3 million by… Continue reading Broadband In Half Of Online Homes By 2007, Says Leichtman

Internet penetration in Ireland has now reached 38% of adults, or 1.1 million adult users, representing a 5% increase on the second quarter of 2001. Data from Amárach Consulting also forecast that penetration will reach 46% by Q2 2004, although the rate of growth is continuing to slow. By way of comparison, Ireland’s internet penetration… Continue reading Ireland’s Net Penetration Hits 38%, But Growth Is Slowing

European online trade revenues are expected to multiply in the next few years and will account for more than a fifth of all business trade by 2006, according to a new study by Forrester Research. The Future Of Europe’s Online B2B Trade reported on thirteen different industries in fifteen European countries and predicts that electrical… Continue reading EU Online Trade To Exceed €2 Trillion In 2006, Says Forrester

People who have watched or listened to streaming media online in the past week buy more compact discs than the average American, according to a new study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research. The report, Internet 9: The Media and Entertainment World of Online Consumers found that weekly “Streamies” bought twenty-one CDs in the last… Continue reading Streaming Media Encourages Music Sales, Says Report

Prominent cable and DSL providers in the US added a combined 1.37 million broadband internet subscribers in the second quarter of this year, according to Leichtman Research Group. By the mid-point of this year, the major US providers had over 13.5 million broadband subscribers between them. More than 65% of these users connect to the… Continue reading US Cable Firms Reap The Broadband Bounty

The enticing combination of entertainment content and networking technologies could provide a huge boost to internet service and content providers, as well as to electronics manufacturers, as consumers seek to create ‘networked digital entertainment homes’. This is the premise of a report to be released next month by Parks Associates, which finds that the transfer… Continue reading Digital Networked Entertainment Homes Could Have Mass Appeal

Growth of the worldwide internet population has begun to plateau according to the latest data from Nielsen//NetRatings. The second quarter 2002 edition of the Global Internet Trends survey found that there are now 553 million people worldwide with internet access. This is up just 4.0% on the first quarter of the year when the population… Continue reading Global Online Population Growth Flattens

Unlicensed file sharing services will continue to thrive until record labels allow internet users to download music legitimately, according to a new report from The Yankee Group. Consumers aged 14 and above downloaded 5.16 billion audio files in the US via unlicensed file-sharing services such as KaZaa, Morpheus and LimeWire in 2001. This is set… Continue reading Unlicensed Music Downloads To Peak In 2005, Says Yankee Group

Male internet users in Britain are twice as likely to pay for online content than females, according to a new study by the service provider, BT Openworld. In the survey, over 50% of male respondents admitted to buying online content, compared to just 26% of women. Men in the 20 to 30 age group are… Continue reading UK Men More Willing To Pay For Online Content