Some 41.5 million US adults - or 21 per cent of the adult population - use the Internet, a more than 30 per cent increase over the last six months, according to a new study.

Of those, 85 per cent use the World Wide Web, and 75 per cent use e-mail according to the American Internet User Survey, which was carried out by Cyber Dialogue, a market research organisation. The survey also found that 23.8 million adults expressed interest in getting Internet access within the next year, an increase of more than two million users from the second quarter of 1997. The flip side: some 15.9 million US adults tried out the Internet over the last 12 months and no longer use it. - (AFP)