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Survey: The average teenager has more than 425 Facebook friends
- It’s no secret that social media is massively popular among today’s youth but perhaps you’d be surprised to learn that a staggering 81 percent of teens between the ages of 12 and 17 use some form of social media. Of…
Survey finds people are less polite on social media than in person
- Here’s a statement that’s likely to surprise nobody: people are less polite online than they are in person. The revelation comes as part of a recent survey from VitalSmarts which found that 88 percent of respondents agreed with the aforementioned…
Almost nobody is interested in a Facebook phone, says survey
- Despite the fact that there hasn’t been much evidence until recently to support a Facebook phone, rumors on the subject have been brewing for a couple of years now. That’s all good and well but is anyone actually interested in…
Survey finds considerable increase in teen smartphone adoption rate
- A new report from Pew Research Center takes a look at technology use among America’s youth. The survey found that 78 percent of people between the age of 12 and 17 said they owned a cell phone and nearly half…
Survey: Microsoft is now cooler than it was just a few years ago
- Microsoft’s efforts to revamp their image appear to be paying dividends. A recent poll from Reuters / Ipsos shows that nearly half of all participants think Redmond is cooler now that it was just a couple of years ago. In…
More than half of Americans use mobile phones instead of landlines
- A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control used to track demographics of landline telephones reveals that more than half of US homes don’t have or didn’t use their land-based telephones in 2012. The evidence really isn’t all that…
Survey names Verizon the best US carrier, AT&T the worst
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Consumer Reports has released its annual cellular service report with findings that are similar to last year's results. After surveying 63,253 cellular subscribers across 23 metropolitan markets, Consumer Reports determined Verizon Wireless to be the highest-rated provider...
Survey: 48% of motorists between 18-29 use Internet while driving
- According to a survey performed by State Farm Insurance, as many as 21 percent of smartphone-owning drivers confess to accessing the web while driving -- or webbing -- as the company refers to it. Drivers between the ages of 18…
Survey shows first ever decline in Internet usage, but there's a catch
- A new study from Forrester reveals that people are spending less time using the Internet than they have in the past couple of years. In a survey of 58,000 US adults, respondents claimed to spend approximately 19.6 hours using the…
Majority of Americans believe bad weather affects cloud computing
- Cloud computing is a concept that many Americans have likely heard about and even use on a daily basis but according to a recent survey from Wakefield Research for Citrix, the majority of respondents have virtually no idea what it…
Steam posts hardware and software survey results for June 2012
- Steam has published the results of its June 2012 hardware and software survey, providing some interesting -- albeit hardly surprising -- views at the technology people using Valve’s digital distribution platform are relying on. When it comes to CPUs, for…
Avast most widely used antivirus, uTorrent most popular P2P utility
- According to Opswat, a software development company based in San Francisco, Avast continues to be the world's preferred antivirus. Avast was found on more than 16 percent of computers worldwide. For the past few years, Avast has topped the survey (pdf),…
iPad owners anticipate iPad 3's arrival, set high expectations
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A new survey suggests that nearly half of iPad owners are eager for another opportunity to throw $100 bills at Apple. Conducted by PriceGrabber, the poll shows that 42% of iPad owners intend to purchase Cupertino's latest slate. Of that 42%, 39% plan to buy an iPad 3 by the end of 2012...
Survey: connected mobile devices outnumber people in U.S.
- In case you needed more proof that the future of computing is mobile, a new study by the wireless trade group CTIA has found that for the first time the number connected mobile devices in the U.S. has exceeded that…
Survey: Negative online reviews change 80 percent of shoppers’ minds
- A new survey finds that four out of five consumers have reversed purchase decisions based on negative reviews found on the net. The study comes from market analysis firm Cone Inc.’s 2011 Cone Online Influence Trend Tracker.
Survey: e-reader adoption outpacing tablets in the U.S.
- The number of people in the U.S. who own an e-reader such as Amazon's Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook has doubled in the past six months, according to a Pew Internet Life study released Monday, while multi-purpose tablets like the…
Survey: Users are still clueless about Internet security
- According to a study conducted by G Data Software, many computer users are still relatively uninformed about Internet security. After surveying some 15,559 Internet users in 11 countries aged between 18 and 65 (including 5,500 respondents in the US), the…
Survey: Apple first in mobile OS brand loyalty, Microsoft last
- Smartphone manufacturers are going to have to fight hard to keep their customers; 75 percent of smartphone owners surveyed by German marketing company GfK say they may switch to another operating system when they buy their next phone. The survey…
Survey: 40m US gamers play on iOS devices, 41m on DS
- Market research outfit Newzoo has released the highlights (PDF) of its International Gamers Survey 2010, showing that 40.1 million people in the US play games on Apple's iOS devices (iPods, iPhones and iPads). That's more than half of the 77…
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