November 6th, 2009
We aren’t big fans of reports and surveys, but this one is an eyeopener. After all the go green buzz that we hear about, according to a report by ABI research only 2% of unused cellphones are actually recycled.
Some more facts of the research:
- currently only 6% of used mobiles are refurbished
- only 8% mobiles are disposed properly
- in 5 years 18% of mobile would be either refurbished or recycled
Various companies have (more…)
Categories: Tech Industry News |
Tags: environment, mobile phones polluting, pollution, recycling, refurbished phones, report, research, survey | 10 Comments
August 5th, 2009
Hedonometer or the ‘Happiness Meter’ is a device that measures the level of happiness amongst the blogger and twitter users. The device has been developed by Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, scientists from Vermont. The software analyzes blogs and tweets to find out the happiest and the saddest days in the last few years.
“We wanted to capitalize on the explosion of blogs and now Twitter to build an instrument that would give us some measure of the emotional signal from a large collective of people,” said Peter Dodds, a researcher at the University of Vermont and co-author of a new paper in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
“All this new data is basically helping us gain insight into (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Weird or not? |
Tags: experiment, happyness meter, Hedonometer, journal of happiness, research, tech, university of vermont, weird technology | No Comments
June 14th, 2009
Forrester Research’s independent study has found out that iPhone users are younger, educated more affluent and even more productive than average smartphone user or non-iPhone user.
The study was conducted on 32,228 iPhone users back in 2008. The study says that those who use an iPhone are more active and browse more Internet than other phone users.
Ted Schadler, found that the iPhone users are “more than twice as likely to access the Internet from their phone as working Blackberry, Palm, or Windows Mobile device owners.” Many employees involved in the study said that they prefer to use an iPhone at work, even if its not been provided by the employer.
The study was conducted before the $199 pricing iPhone 3G was announced. About one and a half year back started study mostly surveys the 1st gen iPhone users who has to shell out $499 upwards for the Apple phone. The pricing explains the iPhone users being richer than the others. iPhone users being younger and more educated can also be understood.
But, iPhone users being more productive than non-iPhone user is based on the Internet usage of the iPhone users. The study says that the iPhone users connect to the Internet atleast once in a week thus validating the Internet rich capabilities of the iPhone platform.
Anyways, with too many changes in the iPhone since the study was conducted, Forrester Research plans to revisit the study to observe the changes in the user demographics of iPhone. Till then you can grab a $99 iPhone 3G and consider yourself young, rich & smart 
via [AppleInsider]
Categories: Apple, Concept / Educative, Tech Industry News |
Tags: apple iphone, iphone, research, study, survey | 11 Comments
May 21st, 2009
Deleting a photography from your Facebook, MySpace or Hi5 account? Beware! According to a study many popular sites fail to delete the photograph from even 30 days after you actually deleted it from your account. Though the photograph is taken off your profile / account immediately it remains accessible via the original URL of the image on the site.
“For our experiment, we uploaded a test image onto 16 chosen sites with default permissions, then noted the URL of the uploaded image. Every site served the test image given knowledge of its URL except for Windows Lives Spaces, whose photo servers required session cookies (a refreshing congratulations to Microsoft for beating the competition in security). We ran our initial study for 30 days, and posted the results below. A dismal 7 of the 16 sites failed to revoke photos after 30 days“
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Categories: Security, Tech Industry News |
Tags: facebook, online privacy, photos, privacy, research, Security, study, survey | 1 Comment
April 10th, 2009
We really love surveys and research data and here comes the latest from the BIG M itself. According to Microsoft 97% of all emails sent over the internet are SPAM. The report states that almost half of spam emails are for pharmaceutical products.
According to Symantec majority of spam now originates from US itself (28%), while the number from China has dropped to just 3%.
Last we heard from someone on this was back in July last year where the number was said to be 81%. While such a sharp rise in amount of spam over email hasn’t hit our inbox for sure. Suggestion: Microsoft – please improve your spam guard, we use Gmail
Via ArsTechnica
Categories: Market Watch, Tech Industry News, microsoft |
Tags: email spam, emails, microsoft spam, research, spam, survey | No Comments
March 30th, 2009
In US alone leaving PCs on overnight costs $2.8 billion to companies in energy bill. On a CO2 basis, that’s 20 million tons of carbon dioxide, equal to that produced by 4 million cars. A good recession advice that can save billions to industries worldwide is switching off their computers and other systems during night.
For most MNC employees computer and telephone are free luxuries that results in careless usage off these resources. There is a urgent need to educate the educated about environmental issues and cost cutting.
Via Yahoo
Categories: Tech Industry News |
Tags: electricity, energy, environment, research, survey | No Comments
January 13th, 2009
We love surveys and research. And here comes another one that makes me feel like a deadly polluting criminal. Though the research isn’t particularly targeted to Google, it cites example of the serach engine and thus it naturally gets loads of attention. The study made by Harvard Researcher Alex Wissner-Gross highlights the CO2 emission due to usage of computing power while on the internet. Acording to the report basic browsing on the internet can result in CO2 emission ranging from 0.002g to 0.2g; while a typical Google search can release upto 7gms of CO2 owing to the processes involved.
Google has been quick to respond on its blog with its own figures. “…Google search uses just about the same amount of energy that your body burns in ten seconds … In terms of greenhouse gases, one Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2.”
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Categories: Concept / Educative, Tech Industry News |
Tags: co2 emission, Google, harvard, harvard research, pollution, research, survey | 2 Comments
June 21st, 2008
Are you a gadget lover? and just can’t wait to get your hands on whatever is the latest in the techworld? Then probably you are ranked high on leadership, assertiveness and you might be very ARROGANT as well. No I am not saying that, Its another survey in US that finds you arrogant
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An online study evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults found avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness–but low in modesty.
Where a person spends his hard (or not so hard) earned money is something marketers die to know. Such surveys which highlights the mentality and behaviour of gadget buyers reveals a lot to them. Head on to ZDnet to read more about this survey.
Via ZDNet
Categories: Concept / Educative |
Tags: research, survey, tech survey | 1 Comment
May 15th, 2007
One in every 10 web pages contains malicious code that could infect your PC, according to search giant Google. The search giant carried out in-depth research on 4.5 million Web sites and found that about one in 10 Web pages could successfully “drive-by download” a Trojan horse virus onto a visitor’s computer. Such malicious software potentially enables hackers to access sensitive data stored on the computer or its network, or to install rogue applications.
Such websites often consist of malicious programs that install themselves automatically on your computer if you happen to click on a link to, or visit, a malicious website.
“To entice users to install malware, adversaries employ social engineering,” wrote Google researcher Niels Provos and his colleagues in a paper titled The Ghost In The Browser.
“The user is presented with links that promise access to ‘interesting’ web pages with explicit pornographic content, copyrighted software or media. A common example are websites that display thumbnails to adult videos,” Provos wrote. The Google researchers found that the code is often found in the parts of a website that the owner did not design or have any control over, such as in banner adverts. Postings in blogs and forums that contain links to images or other content can also infect a user.
Google is attempting to address the problem. It has “started an effort to identify all web pages on the internet that could be malicious”. It said the “vast majority” of vulnerabilities occur in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser.
Categories: Google, Tech Industry News |
Tags: Dangerous, Google, research, survey | No Comments
