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Women over 30 Are Too Embarrassed to Work Out Outdoors

One of the golden rules to keeping to a regular workout routine is to take a friend with you to the gym for some extra motivation. However, as it turns out, women past a certain age are actually shy of doing exercise in public, a new study has learned. This explains why home fitness DVDs and other materials are so ...

24 April 2012
14:31 GMT

The Average Web Page Loads in 2.45 Seconds Google Reveals

"How fast is the web?" is a question many try to answer, but few are in the position to do so. Google, via its Analytics service, has direct access to a huge number of websites in the world, that aggregated data would paint a very accurate picture of the speed of the web worldwide.Of course, Google doesn't reall...

19 April 2012
12:31 GMT

48% of Existing iPad Owners Plan to Buy the New Model

A study conducted by Baird Equity Research analyst William Power on 488 individuals has revealed strong demand for Apple’s new tablet computer. According to Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt, the study was carried out on a young, tech-savvy demographic, which makes it all the more worthwhile. Baird found tha...

27 March 2012
15:51 GMT

Study Shows Fecal Transplantation Saves Lives

Some women would do anything for beauty, even the most repulsive things. When it comes to health though – nay, life or death –, it shouldn't even be a matter of choice: a new study shows that fecal transplantation saves lives. It's one of the taboo treatments that has the potential to fight a v...

15 March 2012
16:11 GMT

SquareTrade Assesses iPad Breakage Rate

Warranty provider SquareTrade has issued a report on iPad breakage rates with the following conclusion - iPad 2 owners break their tablets 3.5 times as often as iPad 1 owners. The results of the study are based on data compiled from 50,000 SquareTrade iPad customers. The warranty vendor found that 9.8% of iPad 2 ow...

15 March 2012
14:11 GMT

Overworked Women More Likely to Comfort Eat, Study Says

A new Finnish study offers an insight into the cravings that usually come with the territory of an office job. As it turns out, overworked or bored with their career women are more likely to turn to comfort eating. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and cited by the Daily Mail, the study shows ...

14 March 2012
17:41 GMT

Keeping Your Hands Cool Helps You Exercise More

A new study hopes to offer the key for more exercise. Performed on two groups of overweight women aged 25-40, the study shows that keeping the hands cool actually translates into a boost in workout, MSN Health reports. Stacy Sims, a research scientist and exercise physiologist at Stanford University School of Medi...

14 March 2012
15:11 GMT

Research: Shooters Can Correct Impaired Vision

A research team from the Canadian McMaster University has found that players shooter video games can help some patients to correct impaired vision. The team has worked with six patients aged between 19 and 31, all affected by a rare eye problem, to play the first-person shooter Medal of Honor, created by EALA aka Da...

20 February 2012
20:51 GMT

Washington DC Named Cybercriminals' Heaven in 2012

Symantec’s Norton in collaboration with research organization Sperling’s BestPlaces made a list of the US cities where the chances are high to fall victim to cybercrime. Washington was named the riskiest city, followed by Seattle and San Francisco. The top ten list of cities that have the highest number ...

16 February 2012
06:14 GMT

Encryption Systems Used in Online Services Found Vulnerable

After conducting a series of studies, cryptography researchers and mathematicians from Switzerland and the US discovered that some of the publicly available encryption keys, used today in online shopping, banking, and e-mail services, are actually unsecure. A paper entitled Ron was wrong, Whit is right reveals that ...

15 February 2012
09:57 GMT

Online Dating Is Most Popular Method of Finding Mr. or Mrs. Right

The time when you admitted in public to using online dating websites to meet new people and felt ashamed for it is gone. A new study has shown that this is the second most popular method used today of finding Mr. or Mrs. Right. Whereas, before the Internet, people used to meet through friends and family or, at best, ...

7 February 2012
13:21 GMT

Cheating in Video Game Extends to Real Life, Says PopCap Study

A study launched by PopCap Games, one of the leading developer of video games with a social side, have released a new study which shows that those players who admit to cheating when it comes to video games are more likely to also cheat in real life.The study is said to have taken into account more than 1,200 adult co...

12 January 2012
17:21 GMT

Study: Excessive Gaming Corelates with Rates for Depression and Anxiety

The early results of a study that was conducted in Australia have correlated excessive time spent with video game with a bigger presence of depression and anxiety, although the researcher will need more time to flesh out the results.The study has also found that excessive gamers tend to perform better than they expec...

10 January 2012
15:01 GMT

Half of Americans Give In to Scams If Prizes Are Promised

While close to 50% of United States citizens declare that they are able to identify a scam or a shady marketing technique, when tested more than half of the 1,858 consumers showed they would be likely to provide personal information to claim a prize after completing an online survey. The figures show that online don...

4 January 2012
06:50 GMT

AMD Is America's Fifth Most Trusted Company

The second Trust Across America annual study has been completed and the list of most trusted companies narrowed down to ten. As it happens, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ended up on the fifth spot, which is really quite the feat. The FACTS method was used for the classification and, for some reason or another, Int...

20 December 2011
07:38 GMT

Looks Like 3G tablets Aren't All That Hot After All

Looks like all the advertising and PR about 3G tablets ended up failing to actually make the things all that popular.According to a study by Connected Intelligence, the sort of slates that only have WiFi support are much more widespread than the ones that also have 3G.While 60-65% of tablet owners use WiFi, the cost ...

14 December 2011
11:01 GMT

How Much Time You Spend on Facebook Has Nothing to Do with Your Grades

Every popular technology is going to be blamed for every wrong in the world. If it's not video games, it's Facebook that's ruining students' performance in school, a lot of people would tell you. But according to one study (PDF), that's not really true. In fact, the study found little signif...

8 December 2011
11:10 GMT

Android Security Model Allows Capability Leaks

Researchers from the North Carolina State University released a paper in which they highlight the security issues that emerge from the fact that manufacturers and wireless carriers are allowed to modify Android operating systems to their own liking. The study entitled "Systematic Detection of Capability Leaks in Sto...

6 December 2011
03:39 GMT

WordPress Still Dominates Open Source CMS Market in 2011

The water&stone Agency published its annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report, the most comprehensive study about open source CMS usage amongst web professionals.The report comprises statistical usage data about the 20 most used CMSs around the web.As in the previous years, the top three remained the same, with Wor...

2 December 2011
11:21 GMT

The No. 1 iPhone 4S Dislike Is…

The people at ChangeWave Research took it upon themselves to ask a couple hundred iPhone 4S owners about the specific features they liked best about their new handset and, by quite a margin, they named the Siri digital assistant as the most attractive function.The worst thing about it was battery life, of course.&ldq...

1 December 2011
10:16 GMT

iPhone 4S Offers More Satisfaction than Its Predecessor, Study Shows

ChangeWave Research has issued the results of a new survey of iPhone 4S owners to show just how satisfied people are with the new handset. In a nutshell: very.ChangeWave says that customer satisfaction ratings for the iPhone 4S are much higher than those for its predecessor, with 77% of owners saying they're ver...

1 December 2011
09:49 GMT

Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution Is Correlated with a Higher Incidence of Diabetes

The people who live in crowded cities displaying an increased level of air pollution might face greater risks of developing diabetes than the ones who enjoy the benefits of better air quality, according to a recent study conducted by a team of Danish experts. Our current system of transportation influences the way ...

25 November 2011
10:43 GMT

A New Tablet Study, Another Overwhelming Pro-Apple Percentage

Whether or not you're ready for another one of those surveys, ChangeWave just conducted a study about what tablets people want to buy.Some time ago, we wrote how the Amazon Kindle Fire was basically more popular than the Apple iPad.So of course that meant someone would hurry up and publish a new study that showe...

21 November 2011
08:39 GMT

Men More Vulnerable Than Women on Social Networks

A recent study made by Bitdefender shows the difference between men and women when it comes to keeping their information private on social networking websites. The survey which included 1649 individuals from the United States and the United Kingdom shows that men are risktakers and they will in many cases ignore pr...

7 November 2011
16:01 GMT

Research Values Internet Revenue at 8 Trillion US Dollars

Trying to put the hype into numbers, McKinsey & Company concluded a research to evaluate the Internet's impact on the World's economy. It approximates the Internet's total revenue at around $8 trillion.The research only took data from 13 countries, the G8, meaning Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,...

7 November 2011
11:26 GMT

Privacy Tools Not Effective Against Online Adverts

A team of researchers tested some of the more popular commercial tools that are supposed to keep internauts protected against online behavioral advertising (OBA). The results are disappointing as many of them are very difficult to use or highly ineffective. CyLab released a paper called “Why Johnny Can’t...

7 November 2011
07:32 GMT

Report: 50% of The Pirate Bay's Customers Seek Anonymity

The recent debates regarding piracy and the controversies that surround torrent websites make most of those who use such services find a way to make themselves anonymous while surfing the web.The partial results of a survey made by The Research Bay ( the new name of The Pirate Bay) in collaboration with Cybernorms we...

22 October 2011
05:44 GMT

Working Women Look Their Best for Just 2 Hours and 22 Minutes, Poll Finds

The average working woman takes about 38 minutes getting ready for work, most of them spent on applying makeup and styling the hair. With all this effort, the entire look only lasts a little over 2 hours, a new poll has revealed. Conducted by Imperial Leather SkinKind on 2,000 women and 2,000 gents, the survey show...

21 October 2011
14:01 GMT

Even Hackers and Security Experts Fall For Social Engineering

IT security professionals and even hackers can become targets for clever social engineering operations, a recent study revealing that some of them easily share account credentials after a few conversations.You might think that pros would be more aware of these attempts but a cleaver study conducted by Sabina Datcu fr...

19 October 2011
04:42 GMT

Report Shows DoS Attacks as Hacker's Favorite Weapons

Almost a quarter of all cyber masterminds prefer to use DoS or DDoS attacks, while 19% rely on SQL injections to complete their evil missions.After doing some digging on a popular hacker forum, the guys at Imperva came up with a report called "Hacker Intelligence Initiative, Monthly Trend Report", that shows these ar...

18 October 2011
03:14 GMT

Yahoo Accounts Most Targeted in Hacking Operations

A report called “The State of Hacked Accounts” reveals information on the accounts people care for so much and the way they get overtaken. Results show that Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and Facebook accounts attract the most villains, probably because that's where internauts keep their most private stuff...

14 October 2011
07:41 GMT

97.2% of All Tablet Internet Traffic Comes from iPads

ComScore has released figures that show just how popular Apple’s iPad is compared to competing tablets, revealing that Apple’s slate-shaped computer accounts for 97.2 percent of US-based internet traffic generated by tablet devices.The figures confirm that Apple’s iPad is kicking Android butt even h...

11 October 2011
15:51 GMT

Battery Size Matters When Driving Plug-in Vehicles, Study Says

A new study performed by Carnegie Mellon University comes to reveal that electric vehicles with smaller battery packs are more efficient in reducing health care costs, environmental damages and oil consumption.The researchers have found that plug-in vehicles with large battery packs are more costly and may have highe...

27 September 2011
04:10 GMT

Stress Exposure in Prenatal Phase Causes Early Aging, Study Shows

While many people are already aware with the fact that the prenatal stage is extremely important for our development, studies are continuously being performed to determine what are those effects exactly.The researchers at UC Irvine have recently conducted a study that proved yet another consequence of prenatal exposu...

23 September 2011
12:42 GMT

Eating Walnuts Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

A recent study performed on mice by the researchers at Marshall University showed that, when a modest amount of walnuts is included in the regular diet, this can reduce the risk of breast cancer.The report in the journal Nutrition and Cancer states that the amount of walnut in the test diet equates to about 2 ounces ...

15 September 2011
11:37 GMT

Report Highlights Change in Online Video Ad Trends

Over the second quarter of 2011, online video ad trends have shifted to the classic TV model, with several advertising breaks during long video content. This according to a report by FreeWheel, a company renown for its online ad management and delivery services.The study showcases how content suppliers are moving awa...

18 August 2011
12:48 GMT

Once Overweight, You Never Go Back, Study Shows

It’s a known fact that fad diets are neither healthy nor really successful in the long run. A new extended study shows that even their healthy counterparts are rather futile, in that those who go overweight will eventually bounce back to their heavier selves a few years down the road. In other words, if you&rsq...

25 July 2011
14:41 GMT

Cut Down Calories by 40 Percent by Eating Nuts in Their Shell

Snacking is perhaps something we’d like to cut down on, especially if our favorite treat is sweets. In order to cut calories by a whopping 40 percent, researchers propose a very simple method: eat nuts in their shell, or sweets in their wrappers. It’s not that you will waste more time cracking the nuts or...

19 July 2011
17:01 GMT

Study Shows Women Pack Twice as Many Clothes than Needed on Holiday

We’ve all been there: the night before the day when we leave for some faraway (or less distant) destination, where we’re to vacation. There’s packing to do and, as a rule, women will always throw in more items than they actually need – twice as many, a new study confirms. It’s a known fa...

19 July 2011
14:01 GMT

One in Five People Goes on a Diet Every Month, Study Reveals

We’re so obsessed with losing weight that we often imagine our problems can go away if we go on a drastic diet, sometimes at the expense of our own health. One in five people goes on a diet every month but never sees it to completion, it has emerged. The makers of Seven Seas vitamin supplements conducted a surv...

11 July 2011
14:41 GMT

Half of Women Hate Shopping, Survey Reveals

Coming to contradict all previous surveys, studies and polls, a new survey claims that half of women positively hate shopping because they believe clothes makers only target young and skinny girls, it has emerged. Conducted by Mintel, the survey shows that many women have been toning down on impulse buys, while shift...

7 July 2011
15:01 GMT

Passion is What Drives Wikipedia Editors

An in-house Wikipedia study revealed that editors contribute to the site mainly because of their passion for freely available information. The report also showcased that men, compared to women are still the main contributors to Wikipedia's knowledge-base.During the month of April, Wikimedia, the foundation that ...

11 June 2011
08:34 GMT

Almost 40% of All New Wikipedia Editors Get Criticized

A Wikimedia study shows that almost 40% of all new Wikipedia contributors get negative feedback on their first edits. The percentage excludes users that got banned for spam, vandalism or registering multiple accounts.The study analyzed a random batch of user edits made to talk pages for new users on English Wikipedia...

4 May 2011
12:07 GMT

Appearances Count: Designer Clothes Equal Unfair Advantages

A new study cited by The Economist comes to contradict all that we’ve learned at home and in school about how it matters who you are on the inside and how appearances don’t (or shouldn’t) count in all those important moments in life. As it turns out, they do. People who wear designer clothes with a ...

4 April 2011
15:51 GMT

Intel Says People Misuse Mobile Technology and Lack Etiquette

With each new progress, the possibility of misusing it is ever present, and Intel actually sponsored a study, conducted by Ipsos, that found a worrisome level of so-called mobile device misuse. As end-users know, quite a few mobile devices have been released over the past year, especially during the MWC 2011 show.In...

25 February 2011
08:13 GMT

TV Dinners Favor Late Night Snacking, Study Reveals

If you’re thinking of catching up with your favorite show or the news while also having lunch or dinner, think again. A new study comes to show that women who eat in front of the television set are more likely to consume more calories later in the day. Nutritionists have repeatedly warned that meals should be s...

24 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Mop Floors Instead of Going to the Gym to Burn Calories

Should you be a fan of doing housework, particularly mopping floors, then cleaning company Vileda has excellent news for you: a new study comes to show that mopping floors for one hour burns more calories than one hour at the gym.Practical considerations aside, the study could represent a drastic difference for women...

21 January 2011
15:31 GMT

Science Learning Gets Boost from Memory Retrieval

Rather than using elaborate study methods, students learning about science could boost their ability to memorize and understand various concepts related to their interests by practicing memory retrieval.In other words, experts have demonstrated that people are better at understanding science concepts if they remember...

21 January 2011
05:13 GMT

UK Computer Scientists Claim Cyberwar Fears Are Unfounded

In a study conducted on behalf of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), two high profile UK computer scientists concluded that current cyberwar fears are unfounded and the term itself is misused.The report [pdf] was written by Peter Sommer, visiting professor at the London School of Econo...

18 January 2011
13:33 GMT

One in Three Women Wouldn’t Go Outside Without Makeup

Some women make of makeup an art. Others can’t even imagine their life without it, while one in three admits to not stepping outside the house without applying makeup first, a new study reveals. Many women see makeup as a mask, which they credit for lots of things, including a promotion, a successful relationsh...

13 January 2011
14:51 GMT


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