Tag: SURVEYS

Need further proof that the Internet is turning us into anti-social, asexual balls of pathetic brain mush? Look no further than the results of a new survey from security firm PC Tools. According to the survey, 29-percent of American Internet users see no problem whatsoever with accessing the Internet during a wedding, 41-percent think it's perfectly acceptable to surf during family dinners, ...

As more and more people get their news from the Internet, several long standing papers have closed up shop and gone online-only. We expect others to follow. However, a new study from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication suggests that, although most folks increasingly prefer to read their news online, they don't necessarily want to see newspapers go away. Of ...

What is the latest dangerous and corrupting movement plaguing youths around the world? Is it that rock 'n' roll? What about death metal or rap? The Internet? Nope, once again it's video games, or rather, kids' addiction to them. Parents, be warned. This month, GameSpot Australia published an in-depth look at game addiction that attributes unhealthy preoccupations with video games to a natural ...

Katie, bar the door! By Microsoft's count, spam accounts for 97-percent of all e-mail! This is up from the 94-percent figure given recently by the New York Times, but we still couldn't be less surprised. This annoying news comes from a new security report issued by Microsoft. The biggest culprit, as usual, was pharmaceutical companies, whose unwanted crap mail was responsible for nearly half of ...

This morning, the National Consumers League released a statement claiming that 90-percent of PC-owning, U.S. consumers want the ability to save DVDs, as they would CDs, on their computers. The study was conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation, and drawn from a survey of 1,000 consumers of varying ages. This should come as no surprise to those who have witnessed the gradual digitalization ...

A Nielsen report last month determined that, of all television and video mediums, mobile viewing witnessed the largest increase in users, experiencing a 9-percent jump in growth from the previous quarter. This week, comScore Inc., an Internet marketing research firm that studies Internet use and trends, released findings that demonstrate mobile Internet use, as a whole, is exploding in ...

We've already seen predictions of social networks like Facebook or MySpace killing our television networks, but now we have some numbers that indicate the things might just kill our e-mail addresses too. According to a Nielsen Online study following Internet usage patterns in 2008, 66.8-percent of Internet users accessed some social network or another, while 65.1-percent used e-mail. So, for the ...

The Nielsen Company released a report Monday revealing that (surprise!) Americans watch more TV than ever. But, terms such as couch potato and boob tube (does anyone even use that anymore?) may soon become quaint colloquialisms as viewers explore new mediums. The Nielsen report reveals that while the average American watches an all-time high of more than 151 hours of television per month (last ...

We may have thought it was awkward, or even silly, when sites like Match.com, Dating Direct, and eHarmony first launched, but guess what? They work. According to a study conducted by consumer group Which?, one in five people who've used dating sites have gone on to marry someone they met online. Furthermore, more than half of the 1,504 people surveyed had been on a date with someone they met ...

If you purchased and downloaded your first digital album this year, then congratulations, you're not alone! Demand for legal music downloads increased an impressive 29-percent last quarter over the same quarter in 2007. Interestingly, while illegal downloads of music also increased over the same period, they rose only 23 percent. This means that more and more people are turning to legal ...

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is constantly filling our lives with fascinating numbers and stats we never knew we cared about. For example, did you know that young people and men are much more likely to remain calm and optimistic in the event of a technological meltdown? We don't want to spend to much time sweating the details, so here are some quick bullet ...

The Internet (much like TV before it) has taken a lot of criticism, and one argument often heard is that it would impede socialization amongst family members. But, a new study from Pew Internet & American Life Project counters those expectations. According to a new survey of 2,252 adults, around 25-percent of adults with Internet access said their families were closer now than when they ...

Pervasive cell phone use is on the rise, and it's not just a concern with bad manners. We've reported on people walking in front of trains and crashing cars while focusing more on their phones than what they're doing. And don't forget that this summer's awful train crash in Los Angeles was blamed on a texting. Now, new survey by software company Neverfail, Inc is showing just how pervasive these ...

When it comes to computing technology, the general stereotype is that it's more a male-dominated culture. And in general, from the number of software companies and trade events we've worked at/attended, it's a fairly accurate assumption. But in these connected times, everyone -- yes, even that middle-school child with a phone that's better than yours -- is tied to technology, regardless of ...

An unnamed insurance company recently stated that one in ten minor accidents are caused by headphone-wearing pedestrians, the Daily Mail reports. Since headphones and earbuds have become louder and increasingly capable of blocking out external noise (especially those new-fangled in-ear buds), the folks who don them on the streets are frequently unable to hear traffic noise. This can result in ...