A lot of people wonder about the future of Twitter - the social-networking brainchild of St. Louis native Jack Dorsey.
Regardless of where you stand on that topic, it’s really tough to deny how fast the young site/service has grown in…
It’s sort of amazing how quickly the iPhone became a major player in the smartphone market. Less than three years after its introduction, the app-friendly phone now claims some 30 percent of the market, according to a new report by…
There are all sorts of studies out there showing our waning interest in e-mail. Or, I guess I should say, young people’s waning interest in e-mail. They, of course, would much rather communicate through text messages and through the communication…
A new study by Nationwide Insurance found that U.S. drivers are largely in favor of laws that would restrict the use of cell phones - for texting, e-mail, and talking - in cars. The results are pretty interesting when you consider…
A new report by The NPD Group, a market research firm, suggests poor tech support could be responsible for a vast percentage of product returns.
The survey of consumers earlier this summer found that 68 percent of those who had returned…
Cell phone users may be wasting several hundred dollars a year, paying for unused minutes and services they’ll never use. At least, that’s the argument being made by the Illinois Citizens Utility Board, a utility watchdog group.
The group released a…
Here we have a study that tells us the average video gamer (at least in the Seattle/Tacoma area) is 35 years old, male, chubby and depressed more often than non gamers.
This from a study by researchers at the federal Centers…
This probably isn’t terribly surprising, given what we know about Twitter and the stream of consciousness platform it offers users. But a recent study of Twitter traffic found that 40 percent of the content is pretty much senseless babble.
The push to do something about all that cell-phone texting and chatting by drivers gained some momentum today when Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he’ll convene a panel of experts to look at the issue.
LaHood said he intends to gather…
More news on the cell phone/driving front. And it’s not good for those of you out there who continue to insist that using a cell phone has no impact on your ability to drive effectively.
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute today…
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