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Ovi Store, Nokia's portal for content for users with handsets running under the company's Symbian operating system, was launched five months ago, and now the company has just unveiled a series of stats for the storefront. The figures show that the usage of the app portal is on the rise, with a 70 percent g... |
19 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Once on top, it's hard to stay there. As other social networks can stand by to that statement, Facebook seems to be ignoring all critics that see its death in the hands of its own success. As the network reached a ground-breaking number of 325 million users, the company seems to be on track to reach the goal it ... |
7 November 2009
06:12 GMT |
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According to a new report released by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), more and more minority students are getting their academic degrees, when compared to the numbers recorded only five years ago. Nearly all categories have benefited from this improvement, the experts explain. The study, entitled “Sci... |
5 November 2009
04:08 GMT |
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Over the past few years, geologists and planetary scientists have been saying that, in the near future, methods of predicting earthquakes more accurately, and further ahead, may become common throughout the world. However, as the years go by, this seems to less and less be the case. The vast majority of earthquake pr... |
29 October 2009
10:05 GMT |
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One of the most comprehensive studies of personal assistants carried in the United Kingdom over the past few years has determined that secretaries are still called on by their bosses to perform tasks that go “beyond the call of duty,” such as purchasing personal items for their employers, calling their fr... |
26 October 2009
20:11 GMT |
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One of the main conditions related to finding a solution in the issue of global warming and climate change is to have strong popular support. That is to say, the economic measures that need to be set in place in order to reduce the amount of pollution being emitted into the atmosphere are very likely to imply higher ... |
26 October 2009
04:34 GMT |
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It seems that every autumn, Flickr continues to pass over yet another landmark in image hosting. While in November 2007, it reached the 2 billion photo mark and in the month of November 2008 it reached the next milestone, 3 billion, the company got ahead of itself with one month and reached the 4 billion mark a few d... |
14 October 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Internet addiction is a condition that, when first announced, raised a few eyebrows at best. Over the years, as more and more children and teens became glued to their computer monitors, it became painfully clear that this wasn't something that healthcare experts made up in their own spare time. In a paper presen... |
6 October 2009
16:51 GMT |
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According to a new report released by the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA), Americans are, at this point, more educated about heart conditions than they ever were, but still take little action to prevent their emergence. Such diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States, but people ... |
5 October 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Being severely overweight or obese is naturally not a good thing, but recent studies have finally placed a number on the correlation between body weight and the incidence of cancer. According to the papers, no less than 124,000 of the new cancer cases that appear every year are caused by improper and unhealthy weight... |
24 September 2009
10:05 GMT |
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As usual, we present the recent changes in labor demand in the world of webmasters, developers and web-designers from the huge marketplace that is the Internet. And from the Internet, there is no other place bigger than Elance when it comes to online labor markets. This month's report comes to present a worldwid... |
18 September 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Google's Summer of Code has established itself as one of the premiere student development programs around. In the recent five years, Sri Lanka has supplied companies that have entered the Summer of Code program a huge number of professionals in various programming-related domains. The Summer of Code program is a... |
14 September 2009
04:32 GMT |
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A BBC radio show has recently investigated and proved the fact that some interpretation errors in surveys taken in the UK have led to a hugely exaggerated number of P2P file sharers. The British Government was planning to use this figure in issuing some P2P banning / limiting laws across the UK's territory in th... |
10 September 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Studies, reports and statistics can be powerful tools but visual representation will win over countless numbers most of the times. A picture is worth a thousand words after all, maybe less now with the economy being the way it is but still. So, while Facebook's 250 million registered users may sound impressive o... |
28 August 2009
09:54 GMT |
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In rural Indonesia, smoking is a fairly common habit and can be met at every corner. However, because the region is so impoverished, there is little money for buying cigarettes, and a new study has revealed that most men who smoke there take money out of their families' food budget in order to satisfy their own ... |
24 August 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Despite regulation aimed at preventing this, the number of alcohol commercials promoting beer and spirits still air at times when most teenagers are watching TV, a new study by experts at the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has found. In other words, teena... |
21 August 2009
20:31 GMT |
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In a new scientific study conducted on 250 Philadelphia homeowners currently undergoing foreclosure procedures, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined that this situation is directly tied to a very high risk of these individuals developing major mental depression. The study... |
19 August 2009
18:01 GMT |
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According to a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-supported study, it would appear that severe sleep apnea increases the risk of death in middle-aged citizens, and especially in males. This is the first landmark study to prove that serious scientific connections ... |
18 August 2009
10:49 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study conducted on seniors in their mid-90s, it would appear that older people tend to be happier as the years pass, despite mounting health problems, financial issues, stress and pain caused by the death of loved ones. The psychologists in charge of the study determined that seniors ten... |
10 August 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Back in 2006, sociologists Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew E. Brashears reported that the number of Americans who lived in social isolation – defined as those people who did not discuss important matters with anyone – had increased by more than 300 percent between 1985 and 2004. The paper h... |
5 August 2009
04:43 GMT |
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In a study released by PHPClasses, the number of PHP developers originating from India has been steadily growing in the last tree years, and the website is anticipating that it will dethrone the United States as the main provider of PHP development workforce around the Globe. Since industry giants like Facebook, Yah... |
30 July 2009
04:09 GMT |
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A new scientific research has determined that an increasingly larger number of teens stay up until the wee hours of the morning, “fueled” by coffee and energy drinks, and spend their time chatting online, playing games, surfing the Internet, or text-messaging to one another. Scientists from the Drexel Uni... |
27 July 2009
09:57 GMT |
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YouTube's huge user numbers and monthly views can make for some interesting statistics for those interested. The site offers a lot of data to the uploaders through the YouTube Insight, the free analytics tool, like traffic numbers and geographical or demographic information of the viewers but those are hidden fr... |
23 July 2009
10:09 GMT |
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According to a new report released today, the world's senior population is currently in a pronounced growing trend, which means that, fairly soon, for the first time in history, its numbers will significantly surpass those of the young segment. The figures the new research provides show that at least 1.3 billion... |
20 July 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Facebook was already a giant at 200 million users worldwide, by far the largest social network and one of the top ten visited web sites in the world. And seeing how it's been growing at a rapid pace for a few years now it wouldn't be too surprising to find that the growth is slowing down. However, this is a... |
16 July 2009
02:32 GMT |
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New statistic reports show that, in the United States, the rate of employment for electrical and electronics engineers (EEs) is at its lowest in years, and that many trained professionals are kicked out of their jobs on account of the economic crisis. And, while the federal government struggles to take the country ou... |
8 July 2009
09:02 GMT |
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The future of nanoengineering, and of any science involving the use of nanomaterials for that matter, is entirely dependent on tools that allow for precise measurements of the events unfolding at the nanoscale, while at the same time correcting errors that may appear in the process. Experts at the Georgia Institute o... |
2 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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A new report released on June 25th shows that the calorie requirements of the human population as a whole will sore by about 40 percent until 2050, at a rate that is completely unsustainable by existing agricultural practices and food production capabilities. Planning and serious investment in agriculture is therefor... |
26 June 2009
18:41 GMT |
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According to the latest numbers released by the UK Environment Agency, more than one sixth of British homes are at risk of floods, and existing measures to stop that may not do too great of a job in stopping it from happening. Additionally, the report says, global warming and climate change may significantly raise th... |
19 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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At the beginning of this year, an airplane was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters of the Hudson river in New York. The pilot managed to land the plane safely on the water, after a flock of birds hit one of its engines, forcing it to shut down. Now, using a sophisticated chemical analysis, experts have ... |
9 June 2009
01:42 GMT |
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As the population of our planet grows ever larger, statistics and estimates warn of an impending threat on our race, namely food shortages. Not accounting for the possible effects of global warming over the next decades, scientists believe that the amount of food the existing production surfaces will create will not ... |
4 June 2009
11:03 GMT |
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comScore, one of the biggest analysis firms in the field, is a very important tool in the web business, giving information and trends about web site traffic. Its methods, however, have been disputed at times as sites claimed their internal measurements were very different from comScore's. The analysis firm hopes... |
4 June 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Despite a relatively large number of high-profile plane crashes taking place over the last months, statistically speaking, traveling by air is still the safest way of getting from point A to point B, hundreds or thousands of miles away. Large, commercial aircraft, especially, are best equipped to handle large number ... |
2 June 2009
10:04 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, published in the June issue of the scientific journal American Sociological Review, a publication of the American Sociological Association, the African American population in the United States is more likely than the White population to experience the sanctions of the welfare syst... |
2 June 2009
02:54 GMT |
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The Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) program is a foster parent-based intervention, which seeks to reduce juvenile crime rates in America's youth. Usually, the children and teens do not want to enlist in the program voluntarily, but are sent there by court order, mandating them to seek out-of-home t... |
1 June 2009
09:50 GMT |
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While most environmental campaigners in the world today are focusing their efforts on forcing governments to enforce sharper standards for pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, the issue of just how many gallons of petrol go into making the plastic parts of an average car is not in the spotlight. Seats, dashboards,... |
27 May 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Economists in the United States are currently trying to get people's and authorities' attention on one of the most crippling phenomena in the country, namely what they've termed “job lock.” The concept refers to employees who remain trapped in their jobs, most of which are unsatisfactory, s... |
26 May 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Many adults around the world, who have become aware of the effects of tobacco over the years, and also have begun to experience the negative effects, are constantly trying to quit the habit. While some of them have succeeded through sheer will power, others find it very difficult, and may use some help from professio... |
26 May 2009
10:50 GMT |
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It's no secret to anyone that professions such as engineering were never too much pursued by women, but a new statistical research shows that the trend is still diminishing to this day, despite the fact that they have long since begun to succeed in professions that were until a century ago considered to be exclu... |
22 May 2009
09:51 GMT |
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According to the most complex computer simulation on the climate future of our planet, it would appear that predictions first made about six years ago were off. That is to say, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) experts, using the Integrated Global Systems Model, found that the situation might be a lot worse... |
20 May 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common forms of heart disease in the world, and its main effect is that it causes disorders in the natural rhythm of the organ, thus exhausting it and eventually making it fail altogether. Now, American experts from the Intermountain Medical Center, in Salt Lake City, believe th... |
15 May 2009
10:18 GMT |
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It would stand to reason that laws forcing all bicycle riders to wear helmets when riding would be welcome by everyone, but, apparently, that's not the case. Peering under the surface reveals the fact that many people have renounced riding a bicycle since the introduction of these legislations, which doctors say... |
28 April 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Since, say, the 1980s, the world has suffered a dramatic change in terms of the demands the community has from its members, in regards to the number of hours each individual has to work per day, to earn their keep, or to the total volume of labor that is needed in order for society to function properly. But new studi... |
10 March 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Psychologists say that the human mind indeed shows no boundaries as far as creativity in the face of death goes. As proof, they point to the growing number of “Suicide by Cop” (SBC) cases, in which people who want to end their lives engage in illegal activities in order to be shot or wounded by officers o... |
19 February 2009
02:40 GMT |
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ComScore Inc., a digital survey and report firm, announced on Friday that the global number of Internet users broke the one-billion mark, with approximately a sixth of the world population logging in to the World Wide Web over the course of last year. The largest number of users was recorded in China, where approxima... |
24 January 2009
04:51 GMT |
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According to a new report presented by researchers on Wednesday, the average American has won an additional 21 weeks of life following pollution-reducing measures employed over the course of the past two decades. Releasing small particles from exhaust pipes or smoke stacks has been forbidden, which means that less su... |
23 January 2009
05:07 GMT |
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An Oxford study, published in The Lancet, shows that nearly one million working-aged men and women died in Eastern Europe due to the sudden transition from nation-owned businesses to the private sectors in the years following the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union. Countries that were a former part of the Sovi... |
16 January 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Comparing the dimensions of an intercontinental airliner against those of a small bird may not yield results that will back up the conclusions that several commissions investigating plane crashes came to, namely that stray birds or flocks managed to destroy propellers and cause significant damage to the engines, forc... |
16 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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According to new statistics released last week by the US Education Department, more than 1 in 7 American adults lack the most basic skills in understanding written language and basic mathematic calculus. That is to say, well over 14 percent of already-employed individuals in the US cannot even read the newspaper, or ... |
12 January 2009
03:50 GMT |
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It's very sad to see that parents in the United States of America, which claims to be a civilized country, are actually considering not having their daughters vaccinated against HPV, because of promiscuity concerns. Parents are saying that the vaccine will virtually “green-light” the teenagers' ... |
18 December 2008
07:55 GMT |
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