Discounts from sites are helping some people fill holes in their health insurance coverage.
Mark Stella didn’t need an insurance card the last time he went to the dentist. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon.
Continue reading… “Uninsured turn to Groupon and other daily deal sites for health care”
“High expectations are the key to everything” – – Sam Walton
Futurist Thomas Frey: On a recent shopping trip, I went to three separate stores and had difficulty finding what I was looking for. On each of these occasions I talked with a staff person and they told me about an option that either wasn’t apparent to most customers, or that I hadn’t considered.
Continue reading… “Flooring the customer: Retail 2.0, the rebirth is coming”
The Internet search giant is adding 625,000 new users a day to the service and will finish 2012 with 400 million.
How many users does Google+ social networking service have? How actively are users using Google+? Only Google has the real answers.
Continue reading… “Google+ could reach 400 million users by end of 2012”
In 1997, when “Seinfeld” first introduced “Festivus” to mainstream America, the writers of the show probably had no idea that 14 years later not only would it still be celebrated every Dec. 23, but that it would fit so well in an online world. In the online world “airing of the grievances” is pretty much a regular pastime. (video)
Continue reading… “Festivus thrives online 14 years later”
Have you seen the Apple commercial showing Santa asking the iPhone’s Siri for guidance? Well, it’s not far off the mark. Seventy-five percent of cellphone users around the globe use their phones for text messaging, in wealthy countries as well as poor ones, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “75% of people worldwide use their cellphones for text messaging”
Friends or frenemies
Why do we add and remove friends on Facebook? Research from NM Incite, a Nielsen McKinsey company, reveals that there are innumerable factors that help Facebook users decide to add a friend or cull someone from the fold, though knowing someone in real life is the top reason cited for friend-ing someone (82%) and offensive comments are the main reason someone gets the boot (55%).
Continue reading… “Why we add and remove friends on Facebook (infographic)”
Two thirds of Americans are on Facebook, but there are some people who happy sitting it out.
After a chance encounter on an elevator Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met — yet through Facebook he knew what her older brother looked like, that she was from a tiny island off the coast of Washington and that she had recently visited the Space Needle in Seattle.
Continue reading… “Why some people are Facebook resisters”
Google Chrome
Google’s Chrome browser just become the globe’s most popular according to what StatCounter is reporting.
Continue reading… “Google’s Chrome tops Internet Explorer 8 in popularity”
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Google created this video that it said provides an “overview of the search terms that captivated the world this year.”
The late co-founder of Apple and a mobile phone that never materialized found their way onto the list of the 10 most popular searches at Google in 2011.
Continue reading… “Google unveils top 10 searches of 2011”
Nearly three-quarters of adults surf the Web for no reason.
A new study confirms that many of us — and the majority of young adults — go online for no good reason at all.
Continue reading… “Majority of adults go online for no reason: study”
Laptops with wifi can damage sperm.
The digital age has left men’s nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections.
Continue reading… “Wifi-enabled laptops damage sperm”
A virtual school delivers lessons online to a child who progresses at her own pace.
K12 Inc.. a Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers — in which children as young as 5 can learn at home at taxpayer expense — is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning its funding, quality and oversight.
Continue reading… “Virtual schools growing, critics question effectiveness to educate children”
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