MEDIA-I: Taiwan net users grow as gadget penetration rises

TAIPEI: More than 6.7 million Taiwanese - roughly a third of the island's population - now use the internet weekly, according to a new report by digital magazine, Business Next. Highlights of the company's third annual "How digital RU?" survey found that Taiwan's pool of netizens had grown to 36 per cent of the country's population, up from 26 per cent in 1999. The ration of male to female users has closed to 51 versus 49 per cent this year. Fifty-one per cent of users surf the net one to three hours per day and send or receive an average of eight emails daily. Twenty-one per cent invest in stocks online. The penetration of digital appliances in the market is 57 per cent for desktops computers, 18 per cent for laptops, 81 per cent mobile phones, 17 per cent for digital cameras, 10 per cent for pagers, seven per cent for PDAs and six per cent for wireless stock readers.

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