WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Some 39% of Americans have positive and improving attitudes about their mobile communication devices, which in turn draws them further into engagement with digital resources - on both wireless and wireline platform, reports a new report by Pew Internet.

Mobile connectivity is now a powerful differentiator among technology users. Those who plug into the information and communications world while on-the-go are notably more active in many facets of digital life than those who use wires to jack into the internet and the 14% of Americans who are off the grid entirely.

• 8% of adults use mobile devices and broadband platforms for continual information exchange to collaborate with their social networks.
• 7% of adults actively use mobile devices and social networking tool, yet are ambivalent about all the connectivity.
• 8% of Americans find mobility lighting their information pathways, but have comparatively few tech assets at home.
• 16% of adults are active conduits of content and information. 
• 61% are anchored to stationary media; though many have broadband and cell phones, coping with access is often too much for them.

Here's a look at how each of the groups uses ICTs and group members' attitudes about them. P And when you're done, you can take their quiz to find out which typology group you belong to.

Digital Collaborators: 8% of adults use information gadgets to collaborate with others and share their creativity with the world.

Ambivalent Networkers: 7% of adults heavily use mobile devices to connect with others and entertain themselves, but they don't always like it when the cell phone rings.

Media Movers: 7% of adults use online access to seek out information nuggets, and these nuggets make their way through these users' social networks via desktop and mobile access.

Roving Nodes: 9% of adults use their mobile devices to connect with others and share information with them.

Mobile Newbies: 8% of adults lack robust access to the internet, but they like their cell phones. A typical Mobile Newbie, who is about 50 years old, is a novice with modern ICTs, but is wading into the waters thanks to a new cell phone

These five groups make up the 39% of American adults who make up the basket of groups we call "Motivated by Mobility." The profiles of the other 61%, the "Stationary Media Majority," start here.

Desktop Veterans: 13% of adults are dedicated to wireline access to digital information, and like how it opens up the pipeline to information for them.

Drifting Surfers: 14% of adults are light users -- despite having a lot of ICTs -- and say they could do without modern gadgets and services.

Information Encumbered: 10% of adults feel overwhelmed by information and inadequate to troubleshoot modern ICTs.

The Tech Indifferent: 10% of adults are unenthusiastic about the internet and cell phone.

Off the Network: 14% of adults are neither cell phone users nor internet users.