Tag: CONSUMERSPENDING

Whether you begin your day in front of the TV, your coffee machine, or a medicine cabinet, chances are that there's some element of regularity to whatever you do before going out to face the world. But what about our early morning forays online? Is there some sort of meaning behind which sites we choose to visit first thing in the morning? One study says yes. But we're not so sure. According to ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Various studies have contributed contradictory evidence about whether or not the majority of DVR owners actually view commercials. The latest survey, performed by Duke University, claims that 95-percent of the material viewed by the focus group was actually watched live, and that the fast forward-ers and live viewers spent roughly ...

The CD market has been dying a slow, inglorious death for more than a decade now, since consumers having long ago shifted to the quicker, easier digital download format. According to a new study, though, it's not just CD sales that are suffering, but the music industry as a whole -- including those vaunted download sales. A report from market research firm NPD shows that between 2007 and 2009, ...

In an apparent confirmation of what everyone's always suspected, and what those commercials have been telling us for years, a report released Monday from consumer-research firm NPD claims to show that Mac users are not only richer than their PC counterparts, but "hipper" as well. The results reveal that the percentage of computer-owning households with a Mac shot up to 12-percent, a 4-percent ...