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September 3, 2002 Published by: ComputerScope Ltd Volume 7 Number 32
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CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL
'A tale of two browsers'
By Charlie Taylor

ACCESS DEVICES
:Wireless Internet catches on with Americans
:Mobile phone sales on the up in Q2
:Over a billion text messages sent in UK in July

ADVERTISING
:US online ad revenues on the up

BROWSERS
:Netscape's decline continues

BUSINESS USE
:Chilean companies get online
:Koreans worried about Net monitoring at work
:Half of UK businesses online at the end of 2001

ECOMMERCE
:Financial loss enough to deter online shopping
:Europeans research online, but buy offline
:Incentives needed to lure shoppers online
:Internet-influenced sales to soar in Europe
:European consumers spending more online

EMAIL
:Singaporeans inundated with emails

ENTERTAINMENT
:Online gaming revenues set to rise
:Music piracy blamed for drop in CD sales

GENERAL DEMOGRAPHICS
:Rise in number of Internet accounts in Chile

INFRASTRUCTURES
:Over 25 million DSL lines worldwide

INTERNET TRADING
:Online trading hits the big time in South Korea

RECRUITMENT
:More dotcom job cuts in August

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
:US broadband service prices level out
:Rise  in UK Internet subscriptions
:Over 25 million DSL lines worldwide

USAGE PATTERNS
:North Americans don't spend free time online
:Reality bites for US Internet users
:Aussies flock to real estate and property sites

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EDITORIAL:
'A tale of two browsers'
By Charlie Taylor

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. but now it looks
as though the so-called browser wars have finally ended.

The face-off between Microsoft and Netscape during the 1990s may seem
to be little more than a historical footnote in the development of
the Internet, but its effect on the future structure and expansion
of the Web was dramatic.

For the full story, go to:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/analysis/weekly_editorial.html

For archives of editorials, go to:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/analysis/weekly_editorial/archives/index.html

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NEWS STORIES START HERE
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ACCESS DEVICES
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=26
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comScore Media Metrix: Wireless Internet catches on with Americans

New research from comScore Media Metrix indicates that close to ten
million Americans go online via a mobile phone or Personal Digital
Assistant (PDA).

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358324&rel=true
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Gartner Group: Mobile phone sales on the up in Q2

Worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 98.7 million units in the second
quarter of 2002, a 0.8 percent increase from the same period last
year, according to Gartner Dataquest.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358326&rel=true
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Mobile Data Organisation: Over a billion text messages sent in UK in
July

Mobile phone users in the UK sent over a billion SMS messages during
July, according to the latest figures from the Mobile Data
Association (MDA).

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358304&rel=true

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ADVERTISING
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=2
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CyberAtlas: US online ad revenues on the up

CyberAtlas reports that Web advertising revenues in the US increased
1.9 percent during the first half of 2002, compared to the same
period last year.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358319&rel=true

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BROWSERS
Archives:http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=5
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WebSideStory: Netscape's decline continues

The percentage of Internet users who use Netscape to browse the Web
has reached an all-time low, according to a new report from
WebSideStory.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358317&rel=true

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BUSINESS USE
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=6
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Business News Americas: Chilean companies get online

Over 40 percent of companies in Chile have an Internet connection,
reports Business News Americas.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358323&rel=true
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Korea Times: Koreans worried about Net monitoring at work

Korea Times reports that four out of every 10 Korean employees are
concerned about employers monitoring their use of the Internet while
at work.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358316&rel=true
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Office of National Statistics: Half of UK businesses online at the end
of 2001

According to the Office of National Statistics, 50 percent of UK
businesses were online at the end of December 2001.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358320&rel=true

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ECOMMERCE
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=14
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E-Commerce Times: Financial loss enough to deter online shopping

E-Commerce Times reports that 58 percent of occasional Web shoppers
say that loosing USD25 or less in an online transaction would be
enough to keep them from purchasing anything else via the Internet.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358322&rel=true
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Forrester Research: Europeans research online, but buy offline

Around 22 percent of online Europeans research products online and
then buy them offline, according to new research from Forrester.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358308&rel=true
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Nielsen NetRatings: Incentives needed to lure shoppers online

A new Nielsen-Netratings report suggests that online retailers will
need to offer more incentives if they want to encourage consumers to
purchase online during the forthcoming holiday season.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358328&rel=true
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Forrester Research: Internet-influenced sales to soar in Europe

Net-influenced sales in Europe will reach EUR172.4 billion (USD169.2
billion) in 2007, according to a new Forrester Research forecast.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358318&rel=true
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GfK: European consumers spending more online

While European consumers are less optimistic about the development of
ecommerce that they were six months ago, the number of online
shoppers in the region has risen.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358325&rel=true

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EMAIL
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=16
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eMarketer: Singaporeans inundated with emails

eMarketer reports that ISPS in Singapore sent out over 800,000
marketing emails to more than 260,000 Internet users during June
2002.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358309&rel=true

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ENTERTAINMENT
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=48
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Datamonitor: Online gaming revenues set to rise

Datamonitor forecast that the online gaming market will grow from
USD670 million in 2002 to USD2.9 billion in 2005.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358321&rel=true
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Wired: Music piracy blamed for drop in CD sales

Sales of music CDs fell by seven percent during the first six months
of this year due to increased use of Internet downloading services,
reports Wired.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358310&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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Business News Americas: Rise in number of Internet accounts in Chile

Business News Americas reports that the number of Internet accounts
in Chile reached 882,300 at the end of 2001, up 32 percent on the
previous year.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358327&rel=true

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INFRASTRUCTURES
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=20
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Point-Topic: Over 25 million DSL lines worldwide

Telecom operators in 50 countries added 6.7 million DSL lines in the
first half of 2002 to bring the total number of worldwide DSL lines
to over 25 million.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358314&rel=true

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INTERNET TRADING
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=51
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Reuters: Online trading hits the big time in South Korea

Reuters reports that online trading accounted for 52.3 percent of
total turnover on the South Korean stock exchange by the end of
December 2001.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358306&rel=true

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RECRUITMENT
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=8
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Challenger, Gray & Christmas: More dotcom job cuts in August

Over 1,000 jobs cuts have been announced in the dotcom sector during
August, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358311&rel=true

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Archives: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=38
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ARS: US broadband service prices level out

The cost of consumer broadband service in the US steadied during the
second quarter of 2002, according to ARS.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358307&rel=true
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Office of National Statistics: Rise in UK Internet subscriptions

New data released by the Office of National Statistics indicates that
there was a 17.3 percent increase in the number of subscriptions to
the Internet in the UK between June 2001 and June 2002.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358313&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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Forrester Research: North Americans don't spend free time online

A recent study from Forrester Research indicates that North Americans
prefer to spend their free time watching television rather than going
online.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358329&rel=true
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Nielsen NetRatings: Reality bites for US Internet users

Internet users in the US flocked to CBS.com during the week ending
August 18 as fans rushed to find out more about the network's new
reality shows.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358305&rel=true
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Red Sheriff: Aussies flock to real estate and property sites

New research from Red Sheriff reveals that Australians flocked to
online real estate and property sites in July.

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358312&rel=true

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