BUSINESS BRIEFS
High-tech world in 3 user groups
Advertiser Staff and News Services
NEW YORK — A broad survey about the technology people have, how they use it, and what they think about it shatters assumptions and reveals where companies might be able to expand their audiences.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that adult Americans are broadly divided into three groups: 31 percent are elite technology users, 20 percent are moderate users and the remainder have little or no use for the Internet or cell phones.
The telephone study of 4,001 U.S. adults was conducted Feb. 15 to April 6, 2006, and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
JAPAN BOOSTING GREEN INITIATIVES
KYOTO, Japan — Japan pledged $100 million in grants to the Asian Development Bank yesterday to combat global warming and promote greener investment in the region and called for a stronger international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The money is part of a new initiative by the government in Tokyo to support sustainable development in response to increasing concern that Asia's breakneck economic growth is destroying the environment.
AIRBUS' GIANT JET SHOWS IN INDIA
NEW DELHI — The world's largest passenger plane — the Airbus A380 — made its first landing in India yesterday, amid hopes by its maker that more Indian airlines will buy the super jumbo as the country's rapid globalization drives demand for long-haul flights.
The A380 circled twice over New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport before landing. At 148 feet, the runway was not wide enough for the behemoth double-decker, but airport officials cleaned up the grass shoulders along the sides to make way for the jet's wings, which span nearly a football field.
