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NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New York is not just the city that never sleeps it's the city that's always online. Time Warner Cable commissioned a study asking New Yorkers in all five boroughs how important high-speed Internet is to them, how they use it, when they use, why they use it and what they know about it.

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Turns out, Internet ranks higher than NYC staples like coffee, bagels, taxi rides even air conditioning!

5 Boroughs, 5 DevicesNew York households have an average of 5 devices connected to the Internet.

NYC Essentials: Connectivity vs. CoffeeIf they had to choose one thing to live without New Yorkers would give up their coffee (32%) and good bagels (30%), but almost nobody would give up fast Internet (3%).

Better a Blackout than Being OfflineIn case of severe weather, more New Yorkers would miss the Internet (26%) more than the lights (12%), TV (15%), or the fridge or freezer (12%).

Cut Budgets, Keep Internet If they had to cut back, New Yorkers would give up taxi rides (80%), magazines (63%) and even their cell phone service (14%) at higher rates than they're willing to cut back on Internet service (7%).

The City That Never Sleeps is Always OnlineNew Yorkers spend the day with the Internet. Two-thirds (67%) of New Yorkers use the Internet at home in the evening, half use it late at night (52%) or at home doing work during the day (51%) and four in ten New Yorkers use the Internet as soon as they wake up (43%).

Movies: In Line or Online?Although half of all New Yorkers (51%) would wait for 15 minutes to see a movie in a theater; only two in ten (18%) would wait 15 minutes to download a movie online.

MVP: Most Valued PresentThree times as many New Yorkers would want a game console that connects to the Internet (18%) than a puppy (6%) as a gift.

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NYC Values High-Speed Internet Highest Among Everyday Necessities

LONDON (AP) As Usain Bolt races down the Olympic track, will London's Internet infrastructure be able to keep up?

Let's hope so.

Experts say the network should be able to cope but they warned of sluggishness during peak times and said an unexpected surge could easily push the system over the edge.

British Olympic Association chief executive Andy Hunt has predicted that the 2012 Olympics will be the "Twitter Games," and those responsible for London's network of fiber optic cables, phone masts and Wi-Fi hotspots are bracing for a data deluge as the events get under way.

"There is the potential for a massive hit on the infrastructure," James Blessing of Britain's Internet Service Providers Association said.

Mobile company Vodafone said it also expected a data tsunami, saying "this summer it's going to be the equivalent of England playing in the World Cup final on Christmas Day, every day for the 17 days of the games."

Network engineers face a one-two punch: One is the influx of smartphone-wielding spectators, many eagerly updating their Facebook status from the Olympic Stadium or keeping up with the medal tally on Twitter. The second is unprecedented flow of video being streamed live to the Internet by Britain's national broadcaster, the BBC.

The combination has the potential to snarl Internet traffic. Olympic planners have already told London businesses to prepare for sluggish service during the games or even interruptions "in very severe cases." Data rationing remains an option, even if those involved played down the possibility.

Nationally, one of the biggest contributors to the Internet surge is expected to be the BBC, which plans to provide live coverage from up to 24 locations besides its three main channels of edited content. The broadcaster predicts that the footage, streamed to computers across Britain, will help generate a terabit (1 trillion bits) per second of traffic at peak times the equivalent of 1,500 people downloading a feature-length DVD-quality movie every minute.

"It's between five and 10 times their normal output," Blessing said.

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Americans are more connected than ever -- at least to the Internet.

A new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) attempts to quantify just how much we value access to the World Wide Web and its findings are somewhat surprising.

Asked what they would give up for a year in order to maintain access to the Internet, 77 percent of Americans said they'd forgo chocolate, 73 percent alcohol, 69 percent coffee and 21 percent said they would go a whole year without sex.

BCG also tried to determine in dollar terms the worth of the Internet for most people living in the U.S. As it turns out, U.S. consumers would need to be paid roughly $2500 to live without the Internet for one year.

What do Americans value the most about the Internet? General search, e-mail and access to online banking and investing.

Dominic Field, partner at BCG and author of "The Connected World: The $4.2 Trillion Opportunity," joined The Daily Ticker to discuss the report, which aims to uncover the impact of the Internet economy on the U.S. and global economies.

As you might imagine, the size and scope of the web and its uses and users are multiplying fast. There are currently 1.6 billion global Internet users today and by 2016 the number is expected to nearly double to 3 billion, or half the world's population, says Field.

Today the Internet contributes $2.3 trillion to the global economy and is expected to grow to $4.2 trillion in about four years.

The Internet contributed $648 billion to the U.S. economy in 2010, or 4.7% of GDP; more than in any other country. To put that in perspective, the Internet economy is the eighth-largest sector in the U.S. and ahead of the Federal Government. Today, the Internet economy is growing at 6.5% a year in the U.S., one reason BCG believes this sector could eventually help propel the country out of recession.

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Internet Access More Important Than Sex, Alcohol: BCG Study

19-03-2012 16:20 Hey people moved into a flat with me mates. Getting internet in 2 weeks so hopefully next video will be up around 2nd April

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MOSCOW, March 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yandex (Nasdaq:YNDX - News) announced today that NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. has added the company to the NASDAQ Internet Index (Nasdaq:QNET), effective with today's market open.

"As the largest Russian internet business, we are pleased that Yandex will now be included in the NASDAQ Internet Index alongside some of the most innovative and influential internet companies in the world. The addition of Yandex to the index is a recognition of our company's growth and leadership, coupled with the strength of our technology and quality of our employees," said Arkady Volozh, Chief Executive Officer of Yandex.

The NASDAQ Internet Index is a modified market capitalization-weighted index designed to track the performance of the largest and most liquid U.S.-listed companies engaged in internet-related businesses and that are listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or NYSE Amex. The Index includes companies engaged in a broad range of internet-related services including, but not limited to internet software, internet access providers, internet search engines, web hosting, website design, and internet retail commerce.

About Yandex

Yandex (Nasdaq:YNDX - News) is the leading internet company in Russia, operating the country's most popular search engine and most visited website. Yandex also operates in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Turkey. Yandex's mission is to answer any question internet users may have.

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