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More than 50 Percent of Americans Use Their Phones While TV Watching

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A very revealing fact was revealed by a recent study conducted by the Internet & American Life Project of the Pew Research Center. According to the research, about 52 percent of mobile phone users in the United States actually use their phones as supplemental activity while watching shows on TV.

The new study, entitled The Rise of The Connected Viewer, showed that 38 percent of mobile phone users use their mobile phones when there’s a commercial break, about 22 percent try to find information to corroborate a fact or news they heard while watching TV, while six percent go and vote for reality shows. [Read more…]

UK Phone Users Text More Than They Make Phone Calls

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A study made by Ofcom on the mobile phone habits of mobile phone users in the UK revealed that about 58 percent of users texted people every day in 2011, only 47 percent of them used their phones to make a voice call daily.

The study is part of the more comprehensive annual Communications Market Report that was published just this week. According to the report, the average mobile phone user in the UK sent about 50 texts last year. This is 200 percent more than the texts that UK users were sending four years ago. It was also in 2011 when  that making voice calls finally showed a decline in its practice. The study revealed that there was a decline of one percent in the number of calls made in 2011 compared to the number of calls recorded in the previous year. [Read more…]

New Survey Reveals Tablets Changing User Preferences for Reading

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A recently released survey shows that tablets are now being used in favor of netbooks as mobile PCs.

A survey recently conducted by Gartner showed that tablets are becoming the choice of people who often read newspapers, books and magazines. The survey revealed that more than 50 percent of its respondents said they prefer to read on their tablets instead of traditional mediums. The exact nature of what tablets they use or prefer to use were not revealed. But the results show that people may not have completely shifted to tablets, but that undeniable shift is happening, with a “less paper” environment now being achieved, still a long ways away from the “paperless” utopia that some people have been predicting for decades now. [Read more…]

Google Gets Popularity Crown, Beating Apple, Facebook and Twitter

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There are times when you take survey results with a grain of salt – and for some, this new survey may be one instance you need to do it.

According to a survey conducted by ABC/Washington Post, Google is the most popular company compared to such heavyweights like Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. To make it more eyebrow raising, the poll was conducted during the period when people expressed outrage over Google’s new unified privacy policy (from Mar 28 to April 1). [Read more…]

Almost 20 Percent of Blackberry Users Want to Switch To Other Phones

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In a business setting, Blackberry phones are usually the preferred smartphones mainly because of the great integration of push email services on to the device, not to mention Blackberry Messenger, which makes messaging effortless. But what do you do if the very reasons you have a Blackberry fail you?

This is what happened to millions of Blackberry users when the Blackberry network suffered a massive outage that lasted for three days. The bad experience was strong enough for some Blackberry users to actually consider transferring to other brands.

Based on a survey conducted by Kelkoo, a price comparison site based in Europe, about 19 percent of one thousand respondents said they will move to another smartphone manufacturer. [Read more…]