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Are young Internet users more likely to pay for content?

Are young Internet users less stingy than old ones? That certainly seems to be the case when it comes to paying for online content according to a new survey by paidContent:UK.

In the survey, 1,188 UK adults between the ages 16-64 were asked what they would do if their favorite news site started charging money. The results weren’t exactly what you might expect.

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The countries buzzing the most about Twitter in 2009

2009 looks set to be a break-through year for Twitter. This article will show that interest for Twitter is skyrocketing outside the US, and also where this is happening.

To be able to examine the worldwide buzz about Twitter (the general interest level per country, if you like) we have looked at Google search data for searches made so far in 2009. This gave us a fresh perspective on the current trends.

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Spam attack killed Tucows email service

Spam can be more than a mere inconvenience, as tens of thousands of Virgin Media DSL customers in the UK can testify to after having been unable to access their email for days last week due to what is said to have been a spam attack. Virgin Media uses Tucows’s OpenSRS email service.

The Virgin Media DSL service has about 200,000 customers. Approximately half of these were affected.

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The web hosting company 1&1 asked 1,600 UK consumers (via survey company Tickbox.net) about their reactions to slow or broken websites, with some very interesting results. For example, nine out of ten people would switch to a competitor’s website if a company’s website fails to load. The survey results also show that consumers are generally [...]

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