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11.30.2009 10:52 am

“Twitter” and nine other top words for 2009

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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11.02.2009 11:46 am

iPhone, Blackberry battle for smartphone dominance

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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09.17.2009 11:27 am

We are spending less time with e-mail, thanks to social networks

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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08.31.2009 3:25 pm

Survey: Most drivers support regulation of cell phones in cars

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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08.24.2009 12:31 pm

Bad tech support prompts majority of product returns

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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08.19.2009 1:17 pm

Are you wasting money on your cell phone bill?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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08.18.2009 5:43 pm

Study says average video game player is 35 and depressed

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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08.17.2009 12:15 pm

Breaking down the value of all the tweeting on Twitter

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.

A story…

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08.04.2009 2:21 pm

U.S. Transportation Secretary calls for distracted driving summit

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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07.28.2009 10:53 am

The evidence mounts: Cell phones and driving don’t mix well

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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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