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Personal texting on a work phone? Beware your boss

Stephanie Chen, CNN

Apr 20, 2010

(CNN) -- We've all probably done it -- whether it was texting about dinner plans on a company cell phone or updating friends about a vacation via company e-mail. r>r> But can a company look at your personal exchanges on its electronic devices? r>...

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Some job seekers work without Net

Steve Giegerich, Associated Press Newswires

Oct 9, 2009

A 2009 study by the Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project illustrates the depth of the digital divide.

Pew found that 85 percent of households with an income exceeding $75,000 have broadband service, more than double the 42 percent o...

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Lack of computer skills foils many job-seekers

Alex Johnson, MSNBC.com

Oct 2, 2009

After working for the city of Zanesville, Ohio, for 27 years, Sharon Newton had to go back to school.

Newton lost her job this year, and when she went to look for a new one she discovered that, even with all of her experience, she wasn’t prepared ...

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Presentation

Knowledge Workers and the Internet (Podcast)

Sep 29, 2009Lee Rainie

Lee Rainie did a podcast with Inmagic about the latest research of the Pew Internet Project and how the internet is changing the lives of knowledge workers like librarians and those who work in firms that specialize in research firms and media compan...

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Young workers push employers for wider Web access

Martha Irvine, Associated Press

Jul 13, 2009

...many companies are still figuring out their online policies and how to deal with the blurring lines between work and personal time — including social networking, even with the boss.

"I think over time, an open embrace of these tools can become ...

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When Tech Really Helps

Wendy Tanaka, Forbes.com

Oct 3, 2008

"The vacuum cleaner meant we could give up beating rugs with sticks. Without remote controls, we'd still be trudging across the living room to switch channels on the TV. The Internet made good on Bill Gates' promise to put much of the world's informa...

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Study: American workers tethered (with mixed feelings) to work via tech

Peter Svensson, Associated Press, USA Today

Sep 25, 2008

"Joe Soto, general manager of an advertising firm in Philadelphia, has a complicated relationship with his BlackBerry e-mail phone. He felt "awful" and out of touch when he was without a BlackBerry for two days because his unit fell overboard when h...

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Mike's e-mail challenge: Can you go without it for a day?

Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press

Sep 25, 2008

"With the Internet now a key part of the American working world, a new problem emerges: Work creep — doing more work at home after work hours and while supposedly on vacation because of e-mail and cell phones.

These networked workers — 62% of the numb...

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Pew On Networked Workers: Connected, Distracted, Ambivalent

Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land

Sep 24, 2008

"The Pew Internet Project has just put out its latest survey of technology adoption and usage: "Networked Workers." Conducted in March and April of this year, among 2,134 US adults, the findings are not explicitly about search. The data concern use o...

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Report

Networked Workers

Sep 24, 2008Mary Madden, Sydney Jones

The majority of employed adults (62%) use the internet or email at their job, and many have cell phones and Blackberries that keep them connected even when they are not at work.

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