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GPS tracking in the workplace study reveals stark reactions from employees

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TSheets, a company that launched a GPS-enabled tracking and scheduling app, releases its latest report on GPS tracking in the workplace...

Web

Americans, Brits agree Trump presidency would damage ‘special relationship’

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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In a new survey from Pollfish, 59% of Brits and 51% of Americans say that President Trump would damage the...

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Majority of Americans ignorantly blame illegal immigrants for unemployment

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Research from survey platform Pollfish has revealed that 51% of American adults blame illegal immigrants for the United States’ “sputtering...

Mobile

Android and Samsung rule the smartphone market, but Apple’s the fastest riser

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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In a month filled with important announcements from respective smartphone manufacturers, including Apple, Nokia, Motorola Mobility and HTC, comScore has published its Mobile Subscriber Market Share report that places Samsung ahead of all other device makers and Android miles ahead of all other mobile platforms.

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Is Google Consumer Surveys a viable revenue stream for publishers?

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Google announced Consumer Surveys earlier today, a new service that hopes to create an alternative and viable revenue stream for publishers, while providing near real-time accurate market research data for businesses.

Social Media

Should children under 13 be allowed on Facebook? Zuckerberg thinks so

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Not content with already having over 600 million users Mark Zuckerberg wants pre-teens to be able to legally become Facebook members.

Technology

Irish & British teens safest users of Facebook, but many breaking law to use site

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Ireland & the UK have some of the most secure teenage users of Facebook despite having some of the highest usage levels in Europe, a study today revealed.

Tell us if your broadband is up to speed or if it’s under performing

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The Sociable’s Irish broadband speed test. Tell us how fast your internet connection is

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Believe it or not Ireland ranks as 13th in the world for broadband quality speed, ahead of our European friends such as the UK and Germany. But is number correct? More often than the not broadband speeds promised in the telecom’s ads or websites don’t reflect what the average home or business receives. Tell us how fast your internet connection is.

Wired Magazine for the iPad illustrates an attempt to converge print with digital media

Business

Print media still influential within the technology industry

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Ireland’s Digital Times published a great article yesterday about the ever-present influence that print media still holds over the technology industry. The article cites a survey by Eurocom Worldwide and reports that the printed medium is still very much used by technology executives in the industry.

Mobile

Mobile Ireland 2011 – Smartphone usage in Ireland [Infographic]

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Mindshare Ireland have published an interesting infographic regarding smartphone usage in Ireland. The survey, conducted by Sponge It in November 2010, suggests that while over half of Irish consumers own a smartphone, many don’t use their device to its full potential.

Geolocation Privacy concerns, via Microsoft

Mobile

Geolocation apps causing new privacy and safety fears for smartphone users

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Smartphone users are becoming more concerned about their privacy when using geolocation apps, according to a survey released by Microsoft this week to coincide with Data Privacy Day. The survey found that users have a host of concerns for their privacy when using location based phone apps Some 84% of respondents said that they fear such applications could be used to help unknown people steal personal information or identities.

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.