“The dot-com economy is long gone, but that hasn’t curbed the public’s appetite for shopping, banking and generally amusing themselves on the World Wide Web, according to a recent study.|Significantly more people are using the Web to send pictures and videos, shop, download music, play games and do their banking, according a study that compares last year’s habits with those of 2000…. That surge comes too late, however, for many now defunct Internet start-ups that tried to capitalise on people’s urge to spend online.” —Survey: Web Use Trends Ever UpwardZDNet)