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February 19th 2001 Published by: Nua Ltd Volume 6 Number 5
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CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL:
'Questions answered'
by Kathy Foley
ACCESS DEVICES
:Wireless Web gaining ground in US
:Half of i-mode users pay for content
ECOMMERCE
:European B2B markets due for rationalization
:Buying online for your Valentine
:Young people slow to shop online
:B2C sales reached USD28bn in 2000
:Asia the exception in B2B forecasts
EDUCATION
:Web vital resource for students
ENTERTAINMENT
:Online gaming takes off in US
:Napster decision favors record labels
GENERAL DEMOGRAPHICS
:Sixty percent of Americans are online
GOV/LEG
:Singapore first to use Net for census
IT/COMPUTER INDUSTRY
:Technology spending bucks recessionary fears
MARKETING/BRANDS
:New sites use all forms of online marketing
:Search listings beat banners
:Online marketing maturing in Canada
PUBLISHING/MEDIA
:High prices stifle ebook market
:Local news focus pays off
SEARCH TOOLS
:Search engines now essential to daily life
:Most popular search terms revealed
SECURITY ISSUES
:Security breaches provide wake-up call
SECURITY TOOLS
:Filtering software remains unreliable
TRAVEL
:Travel drives UK online sales
USAGE PATTERNS
:US home users switching to broadband
:Future looks bright for Hungary
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EDITORIAL:
'Questions answered'
by Kathy Foley
'Look it up on the Internet' has become the pat response to millions
of pondered questions. And so, every day, millions of people go
searching for answers online.
This is why search engine optimization is one of the most important
marketing strategies and one that any company that wants to survive in
the harsh new ebusiness climate must adopt.
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ACCESS DEVICES
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=26
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Taylor Nelson Sofres: Wireless Web gaining ground in US
Seven percent of US adults say they or someone in their household
accesses wireless Internet services on a mobile phone, according to
Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356451&rel=true
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AsiaBizTech: Half of i-mode users pay for content
Forty-eight percent of the 18.8 million users of i-mode, the Japanese
wireless service, are paying for content, according to an NTT DoCoMo
executive who was speaking at the Business Mobile Forum 21 last week.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356455&rel=true
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ECOMMERCE
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=14
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Jupiter Media Metrix: European B2B markets due for rationalization
Jupiter Media Metrix predicts that the European B2B market, which is
currently worth EUR200 million (USD185.7 million) or 1.5 percent of
all European business, will grow to EUR1.8 billion (USD1.7 billion) by
2004.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356448&rel=true
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BizRate.com: Buying online for your Valentine
Online sales of Valentine's Day gifts and flowers in the US are
expected to top USD2 billion this year, up 32 percent from 2000.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356454&rel=true
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US Census Bureau: B2C sales reached USD28bn in 2000
Total online retail sales for 2000 in the US are estimated to have
reached USD28 billion, up from USD17.3 billion in 1999, and USD7.7
billion in 1998, according to the US Census Bureau.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356463&rel=true
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Zandl Group:Young people slow to shop online
One in five people aged between 8 and 24 in the US bought online in
2000, according to a new report from the Zandl Group.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356457&rel=true
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InfoWorld: Asia the exception in B2B forecasts
Gartner Group has cut its global forecast for B2B revenues over the
next four years because of the slowing of the US economy and other
underlying economic factors.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356467&rel=true
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EDUCATION
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=15
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InternetNews: Web vital resource for students
US students planning to go to university say the Internet is the
second most important resource available to them, after their guidance
counselors.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356452&rel=true
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ENTERTAINMENT
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=48
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IDC Research: Online gaming takes off in US
A new report from IDC predicts that 40 million households will engage
in online gaming by 2004, up from 25 million in 2000.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356444&rel=true
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Forrester Research: Napster decision favors record labels
Forrester Research believes that the decision by the US Circuit Court
of Appeals to uphold the injunction against music-sharing service
Napster, will give the major record labels a great deal of control
over its operation.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356464&rel=true
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GENERAL DEMOGRAPHICS
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=18
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Nielsen NetRatings: Sixty percent of Americans are online
Internet penetration in the US has now risen to 60 percent, with a
total of 168 million people using the Internet in January, according
to Nielsen NetRatings.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356461&rel=true
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GOV/LEG
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=19
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internet.com: Singapore first to use Net for census
Singapore has become the first country to use the Internet as a tool
to conduct a population census.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356449&rel=true
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IT/COMPUTER INDUSTRY
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=12
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CyberAtlas: Technology spending bucks recessionary fears
CyberAtlas reports that despite the fears of an economic downturn in
the US, spending on information technology and networks is not being
reduced.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356450&rel=true
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MARKETING/BRANDS
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=45
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Jupiter Media Metrix: New sites use all forms of online marketing
Word-of-mouth and direct marketing, sweepstakes, and promotions were
the most popular methods of attracting visitors to new websites last
year.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356445&rel=true
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InternetNews: Search listings beat banners
A new study has found that search listings are better than banner ads
at creating effective brands.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356456&rel=true
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24/7 Media Canada: Online marketing maturing in Canada
While Canadian online marketers currently spend almost twice as much
on building their websites as they do on promoting them, they plan to
spend differently in the future.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356456&rel=true
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PUBLISHING/MEDIA
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=46
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Arthur Andersen: High prices stifle ebook market
Forty percent of Internet users like the concept of ebooks, but only
20 percent say they will buy one in the next six months.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356459&rel=true
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cPulse: Local news focus pays off
Research firm cPulse has found that US websites offering local news
have significantly higher levels of customer satisfaction than sites
offering national news.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356460&rel=true
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SEARCH TOOLS
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=29
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Search Engine Watch: Search engines now essential to daily life
Americans would be willing to pay USD14.50 per week to find the right
answers to questions, according to a new study commissioned by
Keen.com and conducted by Lewis, Mobilio & Associates.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356447&rel=true
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Alexa Research: Most popular search terms revealed
A two year study by Alexa Research has found that 'sex' is the most
popular online search term and that a large number of web users search
for specific sites rather than enter their URLs.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356458&rel=true
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SECURITY ISSUES
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=30
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IDC Research: Security breaches provide wake-up call
A new report from IDC has found that the key impetus for companies
adopting security technology, is when they suffer a security breach in
their organization.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356465&rel=true
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SECURITY TOOLS
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=53
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Nando Times: Filtering software remains unreliable
A consumer magazine has concluded that Internet filtering software has
not improved noticeably in the past four years.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356462&rel=true
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TRAVEL
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=33
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NOP Research Group: Travel drives UK online sales
A new report from the NOP Research Group found that some 480,000
people in the UK shopped online for holidays and travel in the four
weeks leading up to the holiday season last year.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356446&rel=true
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USAGE PATTERNS
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=34
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NielsenNetRatings: US home users switching to broadband
The number of US home users with high-speed Internet access increased
by nearly 150 percent last year, according to Nielsen NetRatings.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356443&rel=true
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eMarketer: Future looks bright for Hungary
eMarketer reports that the number of Internet users in Hungary has
grown from less than 300,000 in 1998 to 715,000 in October 2000.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356453&rel=true
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