One-Third of Belgians Buy Online
10/6/99, CyberAtlas. One in three Belgian Web surfers have made an online purchase, and 42.5 percent say they will quite probably do so in the near future, according to Belgian Internet Mapping study (BIM®) from InSites.
cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/print/0,1323,5911_212181,00.html

35 Percent of Surfing Time is Spent on 50 Sites
10/6/99, NUA. 35 percent of all time spent surfing on the Internet is concentrated on just 50 of the Web's top sites. This is according to the results of a new survey conducted by Engage Technologies and NVision, an Internet Consultancy based in the UK.
www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905355323&rel=true

IT Outsoucing Worth USD110 billion by 2003
10/6/99, NUA. A new study from Input, a market research firm based in California, projects that Internet spending will fuel the market for IT outsourcing in the US. The market is growing at a rate of 22 percent per year and is expected to be worth USD110 billion by 2003.
www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905355322&rel=true

500 Million Online Globally by 2003
10/5/99, NUA. 62 percent of the population in the US will be online in the US by 2003, up from 28 percent in 1998, according to research from IDC. Globally the online population will grow from 4 percent today to 11 percent in 2003 when 500 million people will have Internet access.
www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905355321&rel=true

Generation X Buy More Online
10/5/99, NUA. In a study of over 3,000 US consumers with Internet access, Greenfield Online finds that Generation X is doing the most buying online.
www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905355320&rel=true

4 Out of 5 Users Never Re-Visit the Average Web Site
10/6/99, CyberAtlas. According to research conducted by Engage Technologies and UK Internet consultancy NVision, four out of five Web users never return to a site.
cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns/print/0,1323,5931_212071,00.html

Report: 29 Percent of Small Business Sites Are E-Commerce Enabled
10/7/99, Rob Speigel, E-Commerce Times. According to a study by Sage Software, 29 percent of small U.S. companies who currently have a Web site are using it for e-commerce activities.
www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles/991007-2.shtml

Study: Internet demand will drive outsourcing market to $110B
10/5/99, Stacy Collett, ComputerWorld. The Internet management segment of the outsourcing market will grow 76% annually between 1998 and 2003 as companies adopt Internet-enabled, wireless devices and require constant network upgrades to keep up with changing technology, according to the study.
www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9910052outsrc

Are You Being Truthful?
10/6/99, Business Week EBiz. According to a recent study of 303 users, nearly 1 in 10 said they provided inaccurate information or lied when registering. And nearly 2 out of 10 said that they left the site when asked to cough up some details.
www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/ebiz/ebiz_frame.pl?url=/ebiz/9910/dm1006.htm

Net Companies Unprepared for Outages
9/29/99, NUA. A report from Cahners In-Stat Group has found that 67 percent of Internet companies do not have a site disaster contingency plan.
www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905355309&rel=true