Intelligent agents like Jango aid comparison-shopping. Wireless access to the Internet is popular in Japan and Europe but hasn't caught on in the United States. The pace of Internet growth has slowed somewhat in the US but is gaining rapidly in the rest of the world. English will no longer be the dominant language on the Web in 2005 when more than a billion people across the globe are expected to be connected to the Internet. Seniors came late to Internet but are avid shoppers.
Teens make fewer online purchases possibly because of limited access to credit cards.
Boundless Enthusiasm A visit to the CyberAtlas Statistics Toolbox reveals that market research firms are producing surveys of Internet use at a dizzying rate. Even more dizzying are the prognostications based on these statistics. The 83 percent of highest socioeconomic bracket are connected to the Internet compared to only 35 percent of the lowest. Books, CDs, computer equipment, clothing, health and beauty products, sporting goods, flowers, and toys. The Internet continues to spread rapidly among most groups in the US regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age or location.