What’s the difference between the Danes and the Spaniards?

Well, basically, the Danes are great online communicators (sending 10 emails and one SMS message per day), while the Spaniards are crazy about , er, online gaming.

Bad news for TV moguls — kids rather like the Net!

A new study from Statistical Research indicates that one third of children in the US would choose the Internet over other media, if they were restricted to one choice. This would worry me if I owned a TV network. Interesting also that, overall, boys preferred Internet and television, while girls preferred the telephone and radio.

Cybercrime doubles with increased Internet usage
FT story

“A survey of 1,000 UK companies showed that 44 per cent suffered a significant security breach last year – up from 24 per cent in 2000. ” But according to this survey, most online fraud (46%) in the US occurs on auction sites.

Signs of intelligent life in BT – contd.

According to the Financial Times, BT is planning to plug the gap in its broadband offerings for us poor rural consumers (who cannot get ADSL) with a satellite service. But it only offers 256 kbps download and POTS 56k upload and requires a £400 satellite dish. Roll on WiFi!