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February 5, 2001 Published by: Nua Ltd Volume 6 Number 3
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CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL:
'Europe gets connected'
by Kathy Foley
ACCESS DEVICES
:Mobile data to take off in the US
:Japan set for massive mobile growth
ADVERTISING
:European online ad spend to soar in 2001
BUSINESS USE
:Danish capital best for ebusiness
ECOMMERCE
:Digital wallets remain unpopular
:UK leads in B2B commerce
:Fulfillment still a problem for online retailers
:Internet sector in Europe halved in value
:Middlemen hampering ecommerce
:UK shoppers most likely to buy groceries online
EMAIL
:Marketers will pay to reach email users
FINANCIAL SERVICES
:Tech funds soar in 2001
:Record growth for VC funding in 2000
GENERAL DEMOGRAPHICS
:Russians still unlikely to have Net access
:Israelis flock to the Web
:Lithuanians take to the Net slowly
INFRASTRUCTURES
:Most at-work users will use broadband by 2005
:British paying more for high-speed access
IT/COMPUTER INDUSTRY
:Internet boosts information services revenue
:Older tech workers feel discriminated against
PORTALS/ISPS
:Australian surfers rely on portals, directory sites
PRIVACY
:Consumer sites fail to protect personal data
PUBLISHING/MEDIA
:US should exploit global content market
SEARCH TOOLS
:New search engines go deep
WOMEN
:Young women vulnerable in chatrooms
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EDITORIAL:
'Europe gets connected'
by Kathy Foley
Bearish markets and predictions of doom and gloom for the Internet
sector may be modish right now, but are there really SMEs in Europe
that can stand up and say they don't and won't need the Internet to
stay in business? A company without an online presence is a company
that looks like it's out of touch and nobody wants to buy from a
company like that.
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ACCESS DEVICES
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=26
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Strategis Group: Mobile data to take off in the US
A new report from The Strategis Group predicts that mobile data
penetration in the US will reach 60 percent in 2007, from its current
level of just two percent.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356397&rel=true
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Jupiter Media Metrix: Japan set for massive mobile growth
Jupiter Media Metrix predicts that Japan's wireless Internet market
will surge by about 1,400 percent by 2005 to JPY594 billion (USD5.11
billion).
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356404&rel=true
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ADVERTISING
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=2
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Forrester Research: European online ad spend to soar in 2001
Online advertising revenues in Europe are set to jump 70 percent
during 2001, growing from EUR690 million (USD650 million) in 2000 to
EUR1.2 billion (USD1.13 billion) this year, according to Forrester's
Internet AdWatch.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=2
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BUSINESS USE
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=6
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FT.com: Danish capital best for ebusiness
The Financial Times reports that the Danish capital, Copenhagen, has
come out on top in a study of the best North European cities to
establish an ebusiness center.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356414&rel=true
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ECOMMERCE
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=14
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CyberAtlas: Digital wallets remain unpopular
CyberAtlas reports that despite the growing awareness of digital
wallets, use of them in ecommerce transactions is lagging.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356393&rel=true
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Markets and Exchanges: UK leads in B2B commerce
Markets and Exchanges reports that British businesses are leading
their European counterparts in developing new strategies for online
business.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356396&rel=true
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Accenture: Fulfillment still a problem for online retailers
Only 8 percent of attempted online orders during the holiday shopping
season failed, according to Accenture. This is a great improvement on
last year when 26 percent of order attempts were abandoned.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356406&rel=true
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PricewaterhouseCoopers: Internet sector in Europe halved in value
The latest findings from the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Internet
150 study show that the European Internet sector lost half its value
in Q4 2000, ending the year with a total market capitalization of
EUR100 billion (USD94 billion).
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356410&rel=true
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Progressive Policy Institute: Middlemen hampering ecommerce
A paper from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) reports that
traditional intermediaries such as retailers, distributors, brokers,
and other middlemen are threatening the development of ecommerce in
the US.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356411&rel=true
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Guardian Unlimited: UK shoppers most likely to buy groceries online
British consumers are more likely than any others, including those in
the US, to buy their groceries online.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356415&rel=true
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EMAIL
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=16
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Jupiter Communications: Marketers will pay to reach email users
Online marketers will soon have to pay portals, ISPs and web-based
email services to send promotional email.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356392&rel=true
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FINANCIAL SERVICES
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=4
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CNNfn: Tech funds soar in 2001
CNNfn reports that despite suffering their worst losses in 16 years
in 2000, technology investment funds have made a massive recovery
this month.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356399&rel=true
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National Venture Capital Association: Record growth for VC funding in
2000
New figures from the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) show
that total venture capital investments in the US in 2000 totaled
USD103 billion, up USD43.6 billion on 1999.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356405&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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AFP: Russians still unlikely to have Net access
AFP reports that only a quarter of Russians have ever used a computer
and only a small percentage of these have ever used the Internet.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356400&rel=true
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Taylor Nelson Sofres: Israelis flock to the Web
The Jerusalem Post reports that 20 percent of Israelis older than 13
are online, which equates to 1.27 million people.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356407&rel=true
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Europemedia: Lithuanians take to the Net slowly
Europemedia reports that Internet use in Lithuania is continuing to
grow, but at a relatively slow pace.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356412&rel=true
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INFRASTRUCTURES
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=20
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Jupiter Communications: Most at-work users will use broadband by 2005
Broadband users at work in the US are set to more than double to 55
million by 2005, up from 24 million in 2000.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356398&rel=true
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Oftel: British paying more for high-speed access
High-speed residential Internet access is 25 percent more expensive
in the UK than in the US, according to a new benchmarking survey from
Oftel, the British Office for Telecommunications.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356401&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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US Census Bureau: Internet boosts information services revenue
Revenue from Internet-based information services in the US grew 65
percent in 1999 to USD19billion, according to the most recently
released data from the US Census Bureau.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356408&rel=true
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techies.com: Older tech workers feel discriminated against
Over two-thirds of US tech professionals over the age of 45 say that
age discrimination is prevalent problem in the technology world.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356417&rel=true
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PORTALS/ISPS
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=22
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Red Sheriff: Australian surfers rely on portals, directory sites
Australian research company RedSheriff reports that Ninemsn.com.au
was the most visited website in Australia last year, followed by
Yahoo.com.au and telstra.com, and telephone listing sites Whitepages
and Yellowpages.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356394&rel=true
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PRIVACY
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=37
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Consumers International: Consumer sites fail to protect personal data
The vast majority of European and US websites aimed at consumers are
failing to comply with international privacy protection standards.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356395&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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IDC Research: US should exploit global content market
Internet users in Spanish-speaking countries are the most likely to
buy content online. This is according to a new report, commissioned
by eTranslate, and produced by IDC.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356409&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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New York Times: New search engines go deep
The New York Times reports that the limits of current search engines'
indexing ability means that they have access to less than one percent
of all the pages on the Web.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356402&rel=true
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WOMEN
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=35
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Ipsos-Reid: Young women vulnerable in chatrooms
Up to a quarter of young female Internet users say they have felt
frightened or upset about things said to them during chatroom
sessions, according to a new report from Ipsos-Reid.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356416&rel=true
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