Women in IT and Science
Recent research in the US reveals that women are ‘outnumbered and out-earned’ in science. Men are taking home an average of $1,117 to a woman’s $853 per week while the mean suggested starting salary...
View ArticleDo the right thing: workplace trends in 2013
Business solutions expert Sodexo has released its 2013 report on key trends affecting the workplace. The report combines insight from clients, academia, trade organisations, social media monitoring,...
View ArticleLower teen crime rates – is the internet responsible?
Apparently the peak age for teenage offending is 15. A new report claims there has been a drastic improvement in the behaviour of 15 year olds in Sweden since the mid-1990s – and researchers are...
View ArticleDealing with mission impossible – a publishing case study
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) disseminates scientific information in the interdisciplinary fields of geophysics. With over 60,000 members worldwide, the AGU publishes books, research journals,...
View ArticleMobile trends 2012-2013
comScore has released its latest Mobile Future in Focus report for the US (a separate report for the UK is also available). The report analyses the mobile landscape in 2012 and sets about making...
View ArticleDigital consumers – the rise of the digital multi-tasker
KPMG has been researching consumer media behaviour for over five years – during which time we have seen social media go mainstream, the introduction of smartphones and tablets and the rise of digital...
View ArticleMobile apps – what the customer wants
Smartphone penetration has reached 50% in the US and on average each smartphone user has 41 apps installed (up from 32 on average in 2012). A billion apps are downloaded from Apple’s App Store every...
View ArticleDoes digital piracy impact revenues?
How much should copyright holders worry about piracy? Two recent research reports provide some contradictory conclusions on the impact of digital piracy. According to Danaher and Smith (Wellesley...
View ArticleDigital Europe – the latest figures
In 1996, 66% of the world’s internet audience was based in the US. By 2012 87% of the world’s internet audience was based outside the US. Europe is now the world’s second largest internet audience...
View ArticleTattoos in the news
Tattoos and librarians go together like Dewey and Decimal. If you don’t believe it, have a look at the fundraising efforts of the ‘tattooed youth librarians of Massachusetts’ or visit the ‘tattooed...
View ArticleTwitter and advertising
Twitter has been enhancing its advertising services as it continues to increase its revenues. Improvements include a new advertising API and an upgraded dashboard which provides more performance data...
View ArticleBehaving badly on social media
This week the UK’s first ever ‘youth police and crime commissioner’ resigned after less than a week in the post. Paris Brown, who is 17, had published a number of tweets which critics condemned as...
View ArticleConnected Europe – the latest consumer figures
Forrester has released a European edition of its US consumers and technology benchmark report. The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, Europe explores changes in consumer behaviour in...
View ArticleMulti-screen trends
We are living in an increasingly connected and mobile world. It is critical that we understand how our customers and potential customers are using multiple devices so that we can ensure they are...
View ArticleCyber security in the UK
Effective cyber security is good for business, according to the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), which has published its 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey. The report...
View ArticleMobile search: creating moments that matter
The majority of people who use mobile search to find information on consumer items and services have every intention of making a purchase. In a study (by Nielsen and Google) researchers found that...
View ArticleThe future of TV
Variety has published a story about a new reality show called @SummerBreak. That might not sound too interesting, but what makes this show stand out is that it will unfold over four social media...
View ArticleTools for competitive intelligence
Miniera, the Spanish consulting company, has surveyed 149 competitive intelligence (CI) practitioners in Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean to discover what software tools they use...
View ArticleChildren and apps
Apps for and used by children have been in the news recently. In the UK a five year old managed to run up a bill of £1,710.43 in paid for add-ons for a game which he had downloaded free from Apple’s...
View ArticleIs Higher Education value for money?
The UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the consumer organisation Which? has published the 2013 survey of the student academic experience at English universities. The first survey, in...
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