AS ICT Course and Statistics

ICT AS
We started the AS ICT course and also created a blog. The reason we created a blog is so that we can record everything we do in ICT to enable us to refer back to what happened in the past. http://www.blogger.com
We used different search enigines to search subjects and found that google gave the most results, and other search engines had some of the same content meaning that the search engines could be related in some way. (eg. MSN uses Bing)

Statistics
For home study i need to look at Office of National Statistics' website and look at internet useage by different age groups. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html - internet usage.

In 2010, 77% of the uk's adult population had used the internet in the 3 months prior to the survey. 18% had never used a computer before and 60% of adults included in the same survey had used it every day or almost everyday down from 21% in the previous year of 2009. Internet use is closely related to age: 60% of adults aged 65 and over said that they have never used a computer opposed to the age group of 16-25 which 100% of the people claim they had used a computer.
London was the highest place for usage of the internet with 87% of adults using it. 97% of adults who were educated up to degree level or higher had used more of the internet than the much lower 45% of adults who didnt really hold any formal qualifications.

Internet Mobile Usage
For the adults that used mobile devices to use the internet (eg. laptops, phones or palmtops), this statistic shows that from 2009 to 2010 there was a 5% increase from 40% to 45%. At the time the mobile phone was the most popular device with 31% of adults connecting this way. The use of mobile internet is being led by the age group 16-24, this accounts for 44% of users of internet.