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35% Brits are less stressed when "connected"

Just over two thirds of the UK enjoy being connected at all times and in fact, feel more relaxed when hooked-up than not, a new Virgin Media report suggests.

Over a third of those surveyed said they experienced anxiety when not able to use technology to stay...

More pre-release demand for the Palm Pre than the iPhone

If you are considering getting the Pre, then it might interest you to know that more than a quarter of UK consumers surveyed recently by TNS have expressed an interest in buying Palm's new Pre smartphone, due to go on sale via O2 in the UK at the end of this week.

26%...

VIDEO: Uncharted 2 demo sees over a million plays

It's a week since the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves demo went live on the PlayStation Network, and it's been played over a million times.

Apparently on track to become the most downloaded demo on the PlayStation Network ever, the plays tally at 1,217,424, seeing...

PSP sales rise 300%

Sales of the PSP in the United States have rocketed 300% in the 3 days that followed the launch of the PSP Go - the smaller, lighter, more download-y, little brother of the original PSP-3000. Game downloads also climbed 200% in the same time period.

Sony's corporate...

Spotify has 2.7 million users in the UK

A few statistics have emerged about the growth of Spotify in the UK over the first 6 months of this year. They're from a presentation that the company gave in Edinburgh jointly with PRS For Music and represent the time period from the end of January to the end of July.

At...

Singapore teens play MMOs 27 hours each week

A 3-year study in Singapore has discovered that the average primary and secondary school student in Singapore plays 27 hours of MMO games every week - more than 1/7th of their time. MMO stands for Massively-Multiplayer Online and includes titles like Guild Wars and World...

US Mac users have more gadgets and money

Interesting stats just in from the NPD Group's 2009 Household Penetration Study in the States show that most US Mac-owning households are more gadgeted up than the average, with 48 consumer electronics devices compared to the average PC computer household that owns about...

AQA text service answers 20 millionth question

Text-based question and answer service AQA 63336 has announced it has reached the impressive milestone of answering its 20 millionth question.

The milestone puzzler, asked 6pm on 29 September, was: "Which hero featured in books by Captain W E Johns?". As fans...

Brits spend 30 hours a week online

Britons are net addicts, if data from a new survey is to be believed.

British web users spend a whopping 30 hours a week online - which works out as over 4 hours a day - according to a survey by comparison website USwitch.com.

As far as the office...

UK broadband ranks 25th out of 66 countries

A survey of broadband standards in 66 countries across the world has placed the UK at number 25 - with its broadband labelled as "meeting needs for today", but not "comfortable for today" or "ready for tomorrow".

South Korea and Japan came top, with Korea promising...

Internet becomes biggest ad market in the UK

For the first time in a major economy, the internet sector in the UK's advertising market has overtaken the TV sector. It's a significant milestone for both the burgeoning web economy and the the faltering TV medium.

UK advertisers spent £1.75 billion on web...

80% of UK televisions now digital

People getting secondary TV sets hooked up to Freeview has led to a new high for digital television in the UK, reports Ofcom.

The regulator's Digital TV Progress Report reveals that 80% of all televisions in the UK are now digitally-enabled.

23.4...

Sky: Scheduling clash saw 2 million set Sky+ boxes

Sky has revealed how many reality TV addicts set their Sky+ boxes to record shows this weekend just gone as - gasp - two rival broadcasters scheduled "talent" programmes to clash.

Anyone who wanted to watch (and apparently there's millions of you out there)...

App Store downloads top two billion

Apple has revealed that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store.

This follows on from the 1.5 billion mark hit in July this year, a year on from the App Store's launch.

Claiming the service is "the largest applications...

Consumers don't want to pay more for 3D...

Consumers aren't ready to pay extra to watch 3D movies at the cinema or in the home even though that's what movie studios have planned, new research shows.

The survey conducted by In-Stat Digital shows that 64% of consumers surveyed in the US expressed at least...

Spotify Premium subscriber percentage not double digits

Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, has revealed that paid subscriber numbers are still low, despite the surge in popularity following the release of applications for the iPhone and Android mobile phones which require a premium subscription.

He made the disclosure while...

Apple Mac OS x 10.6 sales beat previous OS releases

Sales of Apple's latest operating system, "Snow Leopard", or Mac OS X 10.6, have beaten those of the company's last two OS releases in the first 2 weeks on the shelves.

The US figures, from the NPD Group from both online and retail shops, although not revealed...

Vodafone creates Twitter-powered real time top 40

Vodafone and Ben Marsh are continuing their Twitter experimentation with the development of the "first interactive real time top 40 for music lovers".

"Tweet the artist you're listening to and watch your tweet help define the UK’s real-time top 40", says the...

Bing takes 10% of US search market

Microsoft's Bing search engine has taken 10% of the US search market since it launched in May. Latest stats released by Nielsen suggest that Google is still growing, though, and that Bing is cannibalising other small search engines.

The big G's share of search...

Freesat hits 600,000 mark

The subscription-free digital satellite TV service, Freesat, has announced it has "delivered sales" of 600,000.

After hitting 400,000 in May, a year after the service launched, sales have gone on to increase 50% in the last quarter, now hitting the 600,000 mark...

Facebook goes Labs with new "Prototypes" options

Facebook is taking a leaf out of Google's book, offering experimental features for the social networking site under the new "Prototypes" scheme.

Like Google's "Labs" options, popular in Gmail, the US company says: "Facebook Prototypes let us share the experimentation...

Facebook's population tops 300 million

Facebook has revealed its online population has just hit the 300 million mark.

In a blog post, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says: "It's a large number, but the way we think about this is that we're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone".

Chrome usage doubles in a year

Pocket-lint has recorded higher than average Chrome usage on the site, revealing that Google's browser is particularly popular with Pocket-lint readers.

While Google Chrome enjoys a less-then-3% global share of the browser market, here on Pocket-lint Chrome...

Majority of young drivers rely on satnav

Almost two thirds of young drivers now rely solely on satellite navigation to navigate the UK's roads, it's been revealed.

While 34% of all drivers polled in a recent Autonational Rescue-backed survey say they only use satnavs to navigate, 59% of young drivers...

Opera bags 10 million downloads in a week

Opera has broken its in-house record by managing to rack up 10 million downloads of the newest version of its browser - Opera 10 - in the first week of its release. Apparently a considerably chunk of those were people who've never used Opera before.

Opera told...