There’s a new report out warning that hackers have become “industrialized” and represent an ever increasing threat to people, organizations and Government.
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Tags: botnets, cybercriminal, hackers, Imperva, industrialized, study
Does playing a violent video game really make players more prone to be violent in real life? That’s a question that’s been batted about (no pun intended) for decades, since the first electronic game systems hit the market. The answer?
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Tags: Craig Anderson, Iowa State University, study, Video games, violence
A few weeks back, I suggested to a colleague that Twitter wasn’t the Internet phenomenon many folks think it is. Why? Because my kids could care less about it.
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Tags: Pew Research Center, study, teenagers, Twitter, use
A new study from UCLA shows that getting the geriatric crowd on the Internet could be key to making the “Golden Years” a little brighter.
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Tags: brain function, Internet, study, UCLA
It’s no surprise to folks who spend a lot of time on the site that much of what’s on Twitter is, well, junk. Or, in the words of one group of Web analysts, “pointless babble.”
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Tags: content, Pear Analytics, study, Twitter
If you think instant messaging and Facebook are time-wasting interruptions for slackers who’ll do anything rather than work, think again.
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Tags: Communication, e-mail, Facebook, IBM, instant messaging, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, social networking, study
Small businesses may be hurting in the current economy, but they still plan to invest in IT, no matter how bad things may have gotten.
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Tags: Compass Intelligence, IT spending, report, small business, study, survey
Wondering if the “green” efforts many companies are touting these days actually have any impact? A new study released this week is the first to put hard numbers behind those efforts to help the environment.
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Tags: business, green, Smart2020, study, technology
