18-34 year old Americans love their Cell Phones

According to a recent survey among 18-34 year old Americans, by ReCellular, a reseller and recycler of used cell phones,

Americans can’t live without their cell phones.

Here are the key findings:

1) Among 18- to 34-year-old cell phone owners, 40 percent sleep with the devices and 33 percent text at the dinner table.

2) 17 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds would rather lose their car keys than their phones.

3) 53 percent of all cell phone users often bring the devices with them to the bathroom.

4) 28 percent of cell phone users admitted that they spend more time texting or looking at messages than they spend looking at loved ones. ---------

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18-34 year old Americans love their Cell Phones

Anil Singh Thursday, December 9, 2010

Facebook responsible for 1 in 5 divorces in US

Remember the pastor who told his staff to delete their Facebook accounts, as he believed that Facebook encourages people to commit adultry (although it’s another thing that he himself had feet of clay). If yes, then a recent study is supporting his belief.

Facebook has indeed changed the way people in America communicate plays and apparently cheat on their spouse. Much in a way the said Pastor had cautioned,

According to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, ‘1 in 5’ or 20 percent of divorces involve Facebook. And, none other than the Old flames are torching a great many of these marriages,

Here is how it all happens: Spouses track down old loves and rekindle relationships they really shouldn’t have. spouses getting sexually chatty with the folks on their friends list. Finally, one revealing photograph someone tagged to suggestive flirting being posted on a spouses wall, clears the air.

80 percent of lawyers are reporting a big upswing in the amount of adultery evidence coming in from social media these days. Top marriage breaker is Facebook with 66%, followed by MySpace at 15%.

As if limit on words can’t stop someone from romancing, Twitter is at third place with 5%. ---------

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Facebook responsible for 1 in 5 divorces in US

Anil Singh Saturday, December 4, 2010

iPad is still high on American consumers' wish list

Take aside the rumors that say, iPad2, one that will be an improved version of iPad1, is arriving two months later in February 2011 ; as Nearly 11 percent of American consumers are planning an iPad purchase by this February (ya the existing iPad !), according to a Christmas buying trend study reported on today at PocketGamer.biz.

So does that mean, camera or no camera, Americans are happy with iPad – the device and its treasure of Apps? ---------

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iPad is still high on American consumers' wish list

Anil Singh Friday, November 26, 2010

Percentage of employed americans who check for their work e-mails during holidays

According to a new survey from Xobni and Harris Interactive,

59 percent of employed Americans (adults, 18 years and older) check their e-mail during holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Out of these 59 percent: More than half (55%) check their work e-mails at least once a day, while about 28% check their e-mails multiple times throughout the day.

What is the reaction when Americans stumble upon some work related email in their inbox, while holidaying:


Forty-one percent say that they’re typically annoyed or frustrated. . At least 12% of respondents admit to feeling dread.

Has Age decreases this feeling of annoyance and frustration:


The survey finds it to be the case.
Younger adults — specifically, 56% in the 18-34 demographic — are most likely to express these sentiments. Meanwhile, only 39% of those between 35 and 44, and 30% of those in the 45-54 age range, admit to being annoyed by work-related e-mails during the holidays.

Does the survey stumbled some workaholic Americans too?


42% of those who check their work e-mail also say they feel it’s important to stay up-to-date. For some it eases the post holidaying work load; while for a small number (19%) the e-mails occasionally serve as a welcome distraction.

Has gender some role to Play ?


Men are most likely to check their work e-mails during breaks.
The survey found that, region-wise, employed American adults who are in the southern U.S.— are more likely to check their in-boxes. 63 out of every hundred. ---------

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Percentage of employed americans who check for their work e-mails during holidays

Anil Singh Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Half of Americans social networkers worried about privacy: Survey

According to The Marrist survey,

Half of Americans who have a profile on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are worried about their privacy.

The survey found that Americans over 60 years of age are the most worried about privacy. Women are more concerned than men.

Other findings of the survey, quoted here:

1) 27 percent of the 1,004 respondents were concerned about privacy on social networking websites, and a further 23 percent were very concerned.
2) 43 percent of Americans said they keep in touch via social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. 40 percent of men, and 45 percent of women, said they had a profile on a networking site.

People, when asked about how they feel about their privacy on social networks, will exaggerate their concern. But whether they actually regulate their online behavior accordingly is just another thing. As it doesn't take much to increase the concern factor and when headlines in the recent memory talks about breakdowns in privacy, that goes a long way to raising people's concerns. Regarding, the plus 60 age people being most worried; I think it’s their relatively late adoption of social networks that is contributing to the worry. Social networking websites do not come as naturally to them as to younger people who have a more carefree attitude about the sites and privacy.

Women are generally more concerned about privacy; hence they being more concerned can be understood. But as their presence on social networks exceeds that of men, it also points that the medium suits them more than the men. ---------

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Half of Americans social networkers worried about privacy: Survey

Anil Singh Friday, July 16, 2010

Japanese not keen on buying a 3D TV: survey

According to a recent survey by the price comparison website operator Kakaku.com, Japanese consumers are not very keen on 3D TV, with almost 70 percent saying they have no plans to buy a 3D TV for their home.

The issues killing the respondents’ enthusiasm are:

1) 3D viewing requiring the special viewing glasses.
2) Steep price tags.
3) Scarcity of available content.

Electronics makers like Panasonic Corp and Sony Corp have rushed to bring 3D TVs to the market this year, hoping the boom in cinemas will extend to living rooms after blockbusters like "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland" ignited massive interest in 3D viewing. But 67.4 percent of respondents said they were not interested in buying a 3D TV while only 31.2 percent were considering or wanted to purchase one, the survey said.

The survey found that:

1)Television makers' expectations for 3D are high but looking at the degree of interest among consumers, there is a big gap with the enthusiasm of manufacturers.
2)Of those who have no plans to buy a 3D TV (almost 70 percent of all respondents), nearly 70 percent cited the hassle of wearing special glasses, 57 percent said prices were too high and close to 40 percent said there was not enough 3D content.

Sony has launched 3D games for its PlayStation 3 and Japanese cable operator J:Com offers a small selection of 3D programs through its video on demand service, but available content remains limited. ---------

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Japanese not keen on buying a 3D TV: survey

Anil Singh Friday, July 2, 2010

Surprise charges in monthly mobile bills shock 16 percent Americans

A survey conducted by Abt/SRBI and Princeton Survey Research Associates International from April 19 to May 2 has found that one in six American mobile phone users (about 16 percent) have been shocked by surprise fees and charges in their monthly bills. ---------

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Surprise charges in monthly mobile bills shock 16 percent Americans

Anil Singh Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Report ranks Microsoft as top social media user

According to the first survey conducted by sales and marketing contact database NetProspex, analyzing more than 100,000 business executives from the Fortune 1000 companies in the first quarter of 2010, ranking the top 50 companies based on their social network membership, frequency of social media posts on Twitter and other blogs, and the friendliness or connectedness of a sample of employees for each organization —

Microsoft employees lead the list in terms of the social media use.

The report highlights that in today's business environment, employees throughout many of the country's (US) largest corporations are using social networks.

Other important findings of the study are:
--almost half of companies analyzed have employees throughout their organization on social networking sites, with Microsoft leading the way.
-- The list is, as obvious, dominated by technology and software companies
-- But Online retailers such as Amazon.com and eBay held two of the top five rankings.
--Google and Walt Disney Corp are also in the top 5,
-- While very closed Apple ranked number 10 ---------

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Report ranks Microsoft as top social media user

Anil Singh Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Will use of Internet make people more intelligent in next 10 years

An online survey of Web users and experts* found that 3 out of every 4 (75 percent)web users and experts believe that use of the Internet enhances and augments human intelligence and the Internet will make people smarter in the next 10 years. Although 21 percent said the Internet would have the opposite effect and could even lower the IQs of heavy internet users.

Other findings of the study are:

1) Majority of the respondents believe that use of the Internet has improved reading, writing and the rendering of knowledge; and Internet would improve reading and writing by 2020.

2) 42 percent of experts believed that anonymous online activity would be "sharply curtailed" by 2020, because of tighter security and identification systems, while 55 percent thought it would still be relatively easy to browse the Internet anonymously in 10 years.

* Experts (who constituted 41 percent of all respondents) in the Survey included the Craiglist founder Craig Newmark, writer Nicholas Car ---------

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Will use of Internet make people more intelligent in next 10 years

Anil Singh Saturday, February 20, 2010

Ten Most irksome workplace jargons and habits

The most annoying workplace jargons and habits (courtesy: Opinium Research):

• Thinking outside the box (21 percent)

• Let's touch base (20 percent)

• Blue sky thinking (19 percent)

• Blamestorming (16 percent) (sitting down and working out whose fault something is)

• Drill down to a more granular level (15 percent) (Look into something in more detail)

• Let's not throw pies in the dark (15 percent) (we need a plan rather than a haphazard approach)

• I've got that on my radar (13 percent)

• Push the envelope (12 percent)

• Bring your A-game (11 percent) (Be ready to do something to best of ability)

• Get all your ducks in a row (11 percent) ---------

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Ten Most irksome workplace jargons and habits

Anil Singh Sunday, February 14, 2010

Slow computers second most annoying thing for office workers

According to a recent survey conducted by Opinium research, among things that office workers complain most about– slow computers are the second most complained about thing.

The top ten office annoyances among office workers found by the survey are:

• Grumpy or moody colleagues (37 percent)
• Slow computers (36 percent)
• Small talk/gossip in the office (19 percent)
• The use of office jargon or management-speak (18 percent)
• People speaking loudly on the phone (18 percent)
• Too much health and safety in the work place (16 percent)
• Poor toilet etiquette (16 percent)
• People not turning up for meetings on time or at all (16 percent)
• People not tidying up after themselves in the kitchen (15 percent)
• Too cold/cold air conditioning (15 percent)

So if, as an office worker found any of the above annoying too, then you’re not alone. ---------

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Slow computers second most annoying thing for office workers

Anil Singh

54 percent of organisations planning to deploy mobile anti-virus products and services in 2010

By A Bisht

Goode Intelligence has announced the results of its 2009 Mobile Security survey (Part 2) conducted during September 2009. The findings of the survey are:

1) 54 percent of organizations surveyed are planning to deploy mobile anti-virus products and services. Or in other words; these organizations are acknowledging the existence of mobile virus threat and thus consider mobile anti-virus products and services as a necessity. Of these organizations, 33 percent plan to deploy mobile anti-virus products and services by March 2010 and the remaining 67 percent plan to deploy by September 2010.

2) 40 percent of organizations are planning on recruiting for mobile security roles in the next two years.

2) The survey claims to provide the snapshot of the current state of mobile security within organizations across the globe.

3) Nearly 71 percent of organizations currently feel that the threat from mobile phone viruses is low. But what is of significance is that, this number drops significantly to 21 percent for 2011.

4) 29 percent are forecasting that by 2011 the risk will be high or very high.

5) At present only 13 percent of organizations are found to be having system to protect themselves from mobile viruses. ---------

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54 percent of organisations planning to deploy mobile anti-virus products and services in 2010

Anil Singh Friday, January 8, 2010

Smartphone owners increasingly becoming more comfortable buying from their handsets

By A Bisht

According to a Compete survey for third quarter 2009, smartphone owners are increasingly becoming more comfortable buying from their handsets, but poor mobile site functionality is still a turn-off for many.

But even then the research finds that mobile commerce (m-commerce) is ready to explode in 2010.

Key findings of the survey:

1)  37 percent of smartphone owners have purchased something non-mobile with their handset in the past 6 months.

2) 19 percent of total smartphone owners have purchased music from their device, 14 percent have purchased books, DVDs, or video games and 12 percent have purchased movie tickets.

3) The most popular “mobile shopping-related activities” are the research related. Earlier too, research related activities were among the most popular of all activities. 41 percent of iPhone users and 43 percent of Android users are most likely to check sale prices at alternative locations from their mobile phones while they are shopping.

4) The second most popular/ likely activity is accessing consumer reviews, with 39 percent of iPhone owners and 31 percent of Android owners investigating reviews from their handset before they purchase.

5) M-commerce is poised for explosive growth in 2010.

6) Consumers will abandon mobile purchasing on sites that are not optimized for the on-the-go experience.

7) Regarding the effectiveness of mobile shopping:
8 percent of smartphone owners that tried to purchase a product on their device were unable to do so. Among these 8, 45 percent abandoned the process as site would not load; another 38 percent abandoned as the site was not developed specifically for smartphone users. ---------

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Smartphone owners increasingly becoming more comfortable buying from their handsets

Anil Singh Wednesday, January 6, 2010

33 percent Americans think Technology has not advanced by 2010 as they had hoped

By A Bisht

Despite being a nation, which usually gets the first wave of every new technological trend; is it iPod, iPhone, twitter and so on;

"Nearly a third of Americans said technology has not advanced to the stage they would have thought it to reach by 2010." (Zogby survey)

The findings of the survey conducted by Zogby International in the United States are:

 The age group which is most disappointed by the current level of technological advancement is 35-54 year olds (36 percent).

 About 21 percent of people believe technological advancement by 2010 is more than their expectation. About a third of people, 70 years and older, contributed to this group.

 37 percent believed technology advancement is on target for their expectations.

 18-30 age group is more likely to be disappointed by the pace of technological advancement, than any other age group,

 Women seemed to be more content with the technological pace compared to Men. ---------

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33 percent Americans think Technology has not advanced by 2010 as they had hoped

Anil Singh Friday, January 1, 2010

TCS Indian Generation Web 2.0 survey 2008-09

By A Bisht

According to a survey conducted by India’s largest IT solutions provider TCS(Tata Consultancy Services), Among the metropolitan cities, Kolkata(formerly Calcutta) has highest mobile and PC penetration among students. In addition Kolkata has the highest internet penetration among students(12-18 years).

Consider these numbers:

-- 90 out of every hundred students in Kolkata have mobile phones.
-- 76 out of every hundred students in Kolkata have a PC at Home.

Both are above the national average.The study reveals that nationally 62 percent urban students have a PC at Home (25 percent own a laptop)

-- 31 percent of the students use Wikipedia for information sourcing.


Some other insights from the study:

-- Over 80 per cent of urban school children have access to mobile phones,

This group regularly surfs the internet; and is receptive to Web 2.0 tools like blogs and social networking sites.

-- 40 percent of the urban school children have a desire to study US. In short, US is the most favoured study destination.

-- School children in mini metros prefer an overseas education destination close to their homes, hence Singapore and Dubai feature in their lists. For metros the figure is 20 percent.

-- 63 percent of of urban students spend over an hour online daily.

-- 93 out of hundred are aware of social networking,

-- Orkut and Facebook are the most popular online destinations.

-- Around 46 per cent use internet to access news.

-- popular career choice among urban school children -- IT and engineering

-- Emerging career choices-- media and entertainment, travel and tourism. ---------

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TCS Indian Generation Web 2.0 survey 2008-09

Mr Bisht Sunday, August 2, 2009

Survey Says 22% of Internet Users Abandon Newspapers

By Mani Raj

According to a recent survey conducted by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, 22% of Internet users have cancelled their newspaper subscriptions because they can read the same news online.

On the other hand, the survey also found that 61% of Internet users who like to read their newspapers offline will miss the print edition if it completely disappeared. That percentage is up from 56% a year ago.


The analysis by Audit Bureau of Circulations showed that the average newspaper sales dropped 7.1% in the six months period - from October to March compared to the same period a year ago. Some of this decline is due to cut-backs by newspapers on less profitable circulations like, for instance - bulk copies of newspapers delivered to hotels.

This year some newspapers have already shut down, eliminated publication days or cut delivery to a few days a week only. Jeffrey Cole, head of the Annenberg School's Center for a Digital Future, said that one thing is certain for anyone over 30: "When the printed newspaper goes away, breakfast just won't make sense."


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Survey Says 22% of Internet Users Abandon Newspapers

Daniel Smith Friday, May 1, 2009