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Study says Patents Hurt Innovation
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 2, 2009 10:00 AM / 8 Comments

According to a study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, patents may be harming our ability to innovate. Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts, written by

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Study: Piracy Does Not Deter the Production of Music, Films, Books
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 17, 2009 12:00 PM / 16 Comments

According to a new study (PDF) by economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard) and Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas), file sharing and weaker copyright protections generally benefit societies more than they hurt

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The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide
Written by Sarah Perez / April 24, 2009 5:00 AM / 71 Comments

Recently, business information solutions provider LexisNexis released the results of a study that examined how technology was used in the American workplace. The focus of the study was on the

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Twitter Leads to Immorality? C'mon!
Written by Sarah Perez / April 14, 2009 6:47 AM / 25 Comments

Yesterday we heard Fox News reporting that Facebook may be responsible for lower GPA scores and now today a new study comes to light claiming that rapid-fire media - like

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How Much is that Email Contact Worth? $948, Say Researchers
Written by Sarah Perez / April 10, 2009 7:35 AM / 12 Comments

In a recent study conducted by IBM, researchers from IBM and MIT found that the average email contact was "worth" $948 in revenue. This is believed to be the first

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New Illness: Facebook Depression?
Written by Sarah Perez / February 2, 2009 6:15 AM / 26 Comments

This may sound like a joke, but it's not: researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have found that too much Facebook usage can leave you more prone to

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The Older You Are, the Better You Multi-Task (If You're a Woman)
Written by Sarah Perez / January 19, 2009 6:19 AM / 13 Comments

New data released by Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI) gives us insight into how men and women engage in "simultaneous media use" - that is, surfing the net while also

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More Adults Than Ever on Social Networks
Written by Sarah Perez / January 16, 2009 6:15 AM / 18 Comments

The share of adult internet users who are involved in social networking online has more than quadrupled in the past four years in the U.S. In 2005, only 8% of

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Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting
Written by Sarah Perez / December 12, 2008 5:46 AM / 11 Comments

Today's high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have

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Smiling in Your Social Network Photos? You Probably Have More Friends
Written by Sarah Perez / December 11, 2008 8:11 AM / 3 Comments

Researchers Nicholas Christakis and James Folwer recently published a paper in the British Medical Journal where they examined how a person's happiness is related to the happiness of their friends

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