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Sounds surprisingly but owing to the global financial crisis employees became more loyal. Thus, crisis has made more than 40% employees feel totally committed to their employer, according to a global survey from Kelly Services conducted in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

The annual Kelly Global Workforce Index polled about 134,000 people in 29 countries from October to January.

A new survey conducted for the BBC World Service revealed that 4 out of 5 adults think access to the Internet is a fundamental right. The survey polled 27,000 adults in 26 countries and showed 78% of users believed the Web gave them greater freedom and 9 in 10 said it was a good place to learn.

The poll further shows that users in the United States are above the average in believing the Internet is for greater freedom and they are also more confident than most in expressing their opinions online.

According to the latest study by Kansas communication-studies prof Jeffrey Hall and his colleagues men are most likely to tell lies when trying to find love online.

The study shows that women are more inclined to tell lies when talking about their weight. On the other hand, men are most likely to lie about how rich they are, what kind of relationship they want to have with you, their past romantic history, their age or their personal interests.

The study polled over 5,000 participants in an unnamed "national Internet matchmaking service".

Online gaming time has been increasing considerably as proves data from The NPD Group. Thus, the average amount of hours spent each week on online gaming has climbed by 10% since the last year, while an average of 20% of all games purchased were digitally downloaded up from 19% in 2009.

The average number of hours spent per week on online gaming has increased from 7.3% hours per week in 2009 to 8 hours per week in 2010. This means that, despite the decline in overall online game play, those who are playing, are spending more time playing than they did last year.

As American Bankruptcy Institute data showed, despite good signs of economic recovery consumer bankruptcy filings surged this month compared to a year earlier figures.

Thus the data reflected 14% surge on an year basis. As for the monthly changes, 9% increase from January is represented by 111,693 cases filed last month.

And that financial distress is driving more Americans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which allows a court to discharge most unsecured consumer debt, including credit card bills.

According to a new report February showed positive but slow increase in US manufacturing. Meantime, consumer spending also grew at a modest pace. National factory activity was worse in February as compared with the previous month.

"The message is continuing progress for the economy, if not as fast as hoped," said Pierre Ellis, a senior economist at Decision Economics in New York.

A new report from GetResponse shows that many small and medium-sized business (SMB) marketers are increasingly staking on video email, social media and personalization.

The report reveals that more than 80% of the polled plan to use video emails in 2010. Meantime, over 90% of SMB marketers who use video emails report it delivers significant conversion rates.

According to the latest statistics provided by Opera the search engine market in the mobile sector is also dominated by Google as it is the case in the PC sector as Google has a significant lead over its rivals while its competitors hardly can be confronted to it.

Opera State of the Mobile Report shows that Google's search portal accounts "for more than 9% of all page views on the mobile Web." Meantime Yahoo only shares 4.3% of page views with Microsoft having miserable 0.03%.

According to a new survey conducted by comScore for the Newspaper Association of America many people consider newspaper websites as the most valuable sources of credible and trustworthy local information.

The survey polled 3,050 respondents 57% of whom rated local newspaper websites as the top online source for local information. That figure is even higher for upper income households (63%) and for the college educated (60%).

IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report revealed that the number of software vulnerabilities dropped in 2009 with the number of flaws in document readers and multimedia applications up 50%.

X-Force research and development team deals with the vulnerability disclosures and collects other data on Web-based attacks. Thus, last year the team recorded 6,601 new vulnerabilities, a 11% drop from the previous year.

According to new research from E-Consultancy, in association with the Online Marketing Summit, the use of social media by businesses has increased significantly but when it comes to their efforts most businesses are still in experimental stage.

According to a new report from Milward Brown consumers rated Amazon.com as the top performing brand in the United States.

Milward Brown conducted the research in association with The Futures Company. The report which was titled "Beyond Trust: Engaging Consumers in the Post-Recession World" introduces "TrustR," a new metric for understanding the relationship between consumers and brands.

Craig Barth, Devil Mountain's chief technology officer, cited new figures which reveal that in many cases Windows 7 consumes 90% of PCs’ memory leading thus to slow performance.

The new metrics from the company's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet) show that on average 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90-95% of their available RAM which results in that the systems are forced to turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks.

While you may think that typo is just a mistake that makes you erase the entered word in the search engine query bar and lose several seconds, such typos may bring millions of dollars to search engines, Google in particular.

Benjamin Edelman and Tyler Moore have estimated that they make the search giant $497 million per year.

Edelman and Moore have published a conjoint work titled "Measuring Typosquatting Perpetrators and Funders." They note: "According to our analysis, 57% of typo sites include Google pay-per-click ads."

The research company Nielsen unveiled new surprising facts concerning the users’ content preferences.

It’s not a surprise, that the majority (85%) of online consumers prefer free content. However, Nielsen found some categories of content would be willing to consider paying for access.