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Top 5 iPhone Psychology Apps

By Ruben Corbo Psychology is a useful subject and it is found everywhere, both academically and when interacting with others. The wide-spread use of cell phones not only allows easy communication, but they are a good method of acquiring reference material. Apps are available for the iPhone that can enhance …

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Email users are more intelligent

Hate your inbox? Think again. All that emailing you do could be doing two things for you. According to a small study of Australian schoolchildren, email makes you more intelligent and increases your popularity at the same time. The research found that boys in particular were more popular the more …

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Global Mobile Video Traffic Will Account for More Than 60% of Global Mobile Data Traffic by 2016

Global mobile video traffic will account for more than 60% of global mobile data traffic by 2016 according to Visiongain’s latest management report “Mobile Video & TV on Smartphones: Market Drivers and Challenges Report 2011-2016” which offers an in-depth analysis of all the latest developments in this exciting and emerging …

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You must tell your friends their website is rubbish

What do you say when your partner asks “does my bum look big in this”? Do you think, well, actually, yes, it does make your butt look enormous and then say “That’s the perfect colour for you darling.” Or do you risk tears and tantrums by saying, “Sorry dear, but …

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Facebook ad spend up 25 percent

Facebook ad spend has increased 25 percent during the third quarter of 2011, according to research by performance marketing company, Efficient Frontier. The cost of advertising on Facebook has also increased, with cost-per-clicks up by 54 percent in Q3 over Q2. Search spend has increased by 16 percent year-on-year in …

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Are you as popular as Katie Price online?

The former topless model, turned pop star, turned reality TV star, turned business woman, turned novelist Katie Price (aka Jordan)  is now about to become a lecturer at Oxford University. Well, OK it is only a one-off lecture, but nonetheless she is going to speak at the Oxford Union – …

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The Internet - concept

How spelling mistakes influence your rankings on Google

Spelling mistakes can have a negative effect on the positions of your web pages in Google’s search results. In addition to this, there are many more quality signals that Google checks on your web pages. Is it really important to avoid spelling mistakes? Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed in a video, …

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The Internet - concept

How to Use Facebook to Promote Your Business

By Erinn Stam Now that businesses are using Facebook to promote themselves, you’ve got to learn how to stand out amongst the competition. Psychologically, Facebook is a little like high school – it’s a social community, so you an easily get booed out of the “in” crowd if you don’t …

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Your website relies on social pressure

Teenagers simply “have to” get involved in sending “sext” messages – the mobile phone messages that reveal their sexual activity and which also may include nude imagery. A new study shows that if they don’t “sext” they feel left out. In other words, they do it because “everyone” is doing …

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Number Earning Extra Cash Online Doubles in a Year

The number of people earning a second income by trading online has doubled in the last year. A survey by Collect+ [http://www.collectplus.co.uk ], the parcel delivery and returns service, dubs such online entrepreneurs ‘e-pportunists’, finding that a third earn over GBP10,000 a year.[1] Over half (59%) of those trading online …

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