The brick-and-mortar sector isn't crumbling as quickly as we might think:
So what percentage of retail business in the United States would you say is done online? In my world, where people seem to be using their iPads to buy new Kindles, the answer feels like 90 percent, and certainly no lower than 60 percent. Maybe you run with a more old-school crowd, but the figure must be at least 20 percent, right?
Anything strike you about the results of this research?
A new Ball State University study says text messaging has far eclipsed e-mail and instant messaging as college students' favored way of staying in touch.
The findings show that 97 percent of students now send and receive text messages, while only about a quarter of them use e-mail or instant messaging.
Anybody want to buy a few hundred cookbooks? I'm not much of a collector, but I began buying cookbooks about 25 years ago when I took a baking class at Ivy Tech and started spending a lot more time in the kitchen. But, as I may have mentioned before, I hardly ever use them. They're still fun to browse through, but it's pain to actually find a recipe you want to make in them. If you want a good bean soup recipe, for example, you can spend a couple of hours looking through the books to find one that interests you.
Watch it, you'll put somebody's eye out with those!
Struggling Playboy magazine has an eye-popping new trick to attract readers - put its centerfold in 3-D.
So we have the youngest, hippest, coolest president since JFK, and he admits he doesn't even know how to work an iPod, an iPad, an Xbox or a Playstation. Must be a bitter disappointment for those who were delighted to believe George H.W.
"Think Again: The Internet" is a good read in Foreign Policy magazine which argues that the Web isn't as earth-shattering as it is cracked up to be. It hasn't ushered in a new era of freedom, political activism and perpetual peace and isn't likely to anytome soon:
This story seems about a year or two too late to be even interesting, let alone important, doesn't it?
INDIANA (Indiana's NewsCenter) - The way people watch movies is rapidly changing, and those changes could be threatening the future of traditional video rental stores. There are more options than ever, and that means more competition.
Step back, and the real question isn't whether the agency has the authority to regulate the Internet - it's why the FCC has authority to regulate anything.
Technology benefiting the employee; the company, not so much:
It used to be if you wanted to catch the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, you would need to come down with the "basketball flu" or take an extended lunch hour.
Predictably, there isn't much comfort for newspapers in the latest Pew study of Americans' news habits. The Internet is said to be the third most popular news platform, behing local television news and national television news. Of course, much of what's consumed on the Internet comes from newspapers, but we still haven't found a way of making money on it.
But the study does provide a hint that worries about people turning away from the news may have been overstated:
