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It seems like we’re just digesting the differences between how broadband and dialup users behave, but now those dogged scholars over at the Pew Internet and American Life project have found another way to identify the true online elite â?? those who log on with wireless connections. Here are two highlights from their latest study:

Check email on any given day:

• Wireless laptop: 72%
• Broadband desktop: 63%
• Dialup: 54%

Get news online on any given day:

• Wireless laptop: 46%
• Broadband desktop: 38%
• Dialup: 31%

hese findings do raise questions about the chicken and the egg. Do hard-core Internet junkies get wireless connections to feed their addiction? or does the convenience of a wireless connection prompt users to log on more often?

Read the report to learn in painstaking detail about the differences among wireless laptops, wireless phones, and wireless PDAs.

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