Consumer surveys haven’t been very kind to BlackBerry (BBRY) this week. In the wake an earlier survey showing that 83% of Americans had no idea BlackBerry 10 had even launched, AllThingsD points us to a new survey from research firm Raymond James showing that 71. Original post on bgr.com Comments on reddit.com
If you’re holding onto the stereotype about foolhardy teens fiddling with their smartphones while driving, you might want to look at yourself first. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
A survey in France published this week revealed 70 percent of the population believe there are too many foreigners living in the country and 74 percent believe Original post on thelocal.fr Comments on reddit.com
Google funds the survey, but majority says search should block pirated content. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
Back in June last year, Techdirt reported on the warning from the World Health Organization’s Director-General that we risked entering a Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
Now that the holiday shopping frenzy is almost over, merchants are bracing for a less-welcome wave of business: merchandise returns. But it’s not all those sweaters that never seem to fit right that are the big headache. Instead, post-Christmas marks the prime season for retail return fraud. Original post on businessweek.com Comments on reddit.com
Panama Forest Boasts Tens of Thousands of Arthropod Species – ScienceNOW Original post on sciencemag.org Comments on reddit.com
Google-funded drones will fight rhino poachers in Africa. On Tuesday, Google announced the disbursement of a 5 million dollar grant to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to purchase a fleet of drone aircraft in Africa. The WWF already uses trackers in Nepal to protect endangered species.The $5 million grant is part of Google’s Global Impact Award program and will help the WWF acquire an undisclosed number of lightweight “conservation drones,” which are launched by hand and can fly approximately 18 miles. Original post on fastcompany.com Comments on reddit.com
74 percent of surveyed Americans think that global warming is changing the weather Original post on smithsonianmag.com Comments on reddit.com
Governments around the world are leaving hundreds of millions of cancer patients to suffer needlessly because of their failure to ensure adequate access to pain-relieving drugs, an unprecedented new international survey reveals. Original post on eurekalert.org Comments on reddit.com
Un racisme anti-Blancs se développe bien dans les quartiers des grandes villes pour 56 % des Français, qui sont une majorité à penser que Jean-François Copé a eu raison d’en parler, selon un sondage TNS-Sofres. Original post on lemonde.fr Comments on reddit.com
Growing up, Cecilia Lopez hoped to escape poverty by finishing school and becoming a teacher. But now 52 years old and having never finished school, she wishes she had learned a few things. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
The Pew Research Center’s latest national poll shows significant declines for nine of 13 news organizations it tests. Original post on npr.org Comments on reddit.com
Companies have dramatically cut training programs for new employees, experts say, worsening a skills gap that’s keeping them from finding qualified job candidates and pushing up unemployment. Employers ‘want people to hit the ground running,’ says Wharton Original post on al.com Comments on reddit.com
The Republic of Ireland is abandoning religion faster than almost every other country worldwide, a massive global survey on faith reveals. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Rich men just don’t care that much about you. Only 29 percent of rich men agree with the statement that inequality is a problem and that Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on digg.com
From world affairs to entertainment, business to fashion, crime to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst that drives the popular dialogue globally. Original post on vanityfair.com Comments on digg.com
Americans support raising taxes on the rich by a two-to-one margin, with many believing an increase would both help the economy and make the tax system fairer, according to a Pew poll released Monday afternoon. Forty-four percent of adults surveyed said that raising taxes on incomes above $250,000 would help the economy and increase fairness, while 22 percent said it would hurt the economy and 21 percent that it would make the system less fair. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on digg.com
Midyear survey reveals that IT salaries and hiring are slowly rising as companies gradually bring more operations in-house Original post on infoworld.com Comments on reddit.com
Is it a dealbreaker if your partner skips the bacon in favor of tofu? For some meat eaters, that’s exactly the case. The recent Love Bites survey of 4,000 singles conducted by TODAY.com and Match.com found that nearly 30 percent of meat eaters say they would not date a veg … Original post on msn.com Comments on reddit.com
A survey of retired New York City police officers shows a “rotten barrel,” according to the study authors. Original post on theatlanticcities.com Comments on digg.com
CDC reports that 23 percent of high school students said they recently smoked marijuana, while 18 percent said they had puffed cigarettes Read more by CBSNews.com staff on CBS News’ HealthPop. Original post on cbsnews.com Comments on reddit.com
Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardous asteroids. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on digg.com
Scientists have discovered fossilized bones near Utah’s iconic Arches National Park representing a new species of raptor dinosaur that was about the size of a coyote, the state’s top paleontologist announced on Friday. Original post on newsdaily.com Comments on reddit.com
One reason the jobless rate may have remained persistently high: The sharp cuts in state and local government spending in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and the layoffs those cuts wrought. Original post on wsj.com Comments on digg.com
Alain de Botton examines the results of Stylist’s first ever sex survey. Original post on stylist.co.uk Comments on digg.com
In an annual survey by Chief Executive magazine, executives for the eighth year in a row ranked California as the worst place to do business. Chief Executive magazine Original post on latimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A new survey has revealed that young people are responding to tough legislation and increasing levels of online spying by investing in VPN services. The study, carried out by the Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University, found that when compared to figures from late 2009, 40% more 15 to 25-year-olds are now hiding their activities online. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
In an election campaign season in which issues such as birth control and gay marriage have made headlines, a growing number of Americans think political leaders are talking too much religion, according to a new national survey. Original post on msn.com Comments on reddit.com