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    New York Times to begin charging for website access, smart phone and tablet apps on March 28

    NEW YORK — The New York Times will start charging people for unlimited access to its website and mobile services this month, ending the free usage that online readers of the third-largest U.S. newspaper have enjoyed for most of the past 15 years. ...

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    Willing to Spend Online, to a Point

    For years, the willingness of Internet users to pay for information has been the subject of much anxiety, speculation and investment on the part of companies. A recent study finds that consumers have been willing to spend, although the sums spent ...

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    Pew study hints at what web users will pay for

    NEW YORK (AP) - The web may seem like the land of something for nothing. Free video. Free news. Even free tools such as word processing and spreadsheets.

    But almost two-thirds of adult Internet users in the U.S. have paid for access to ...

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    Online we're as likely to buy digital goods as 'real' ones, says study

    Listen up, FarmVille fans and iTunes users: You're as likely to spend your dough on "goods" made up of digital bits on the Internet as you are to go to the Internet to buy a real-life pitchfork or a CD. And, you're in good company.

    Two...

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    Pew report: Nearly two-thirds of Internet users pay for content

    Not all Internet users expect to get something for nothing -- at least not all the time, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.

    Nearly two-thirds -- 65% -- of the 755 users...

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88%

of American adults have a cell phone

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.