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Amazon Reviewer Makes Headlines

It’s hard to comprehend how he achieved this, but Peter Harris has managed to review over 2,500 products on Amazon.com.  As an added point of interest: Harris doesn’t even have an Internet connection at his home.

Yahoo Pulls On The Reorg Boots

One executive moves out, another gains a little more power, and a new division comes into being, as co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang's reorganization efforts reshuffle Yahoo.

Internet Makes Young People Happy

Young people ages 13 to 24 are usually happy about the future according to an MTV-Associated press study conducted by Knowledge Networks in April 2007.

Online Scams Up 166 Percent

Okay, ladies, here's something you poke fun of the men with: While more men than women claim to be well-informed about online scams, more men have fallen victim to them than women.

Consumers Happy With Search And Supermarkets

Supermarkets and search engines tops Harris Interactive's consumer poll this year, which sought out what industries best served the needs of their customers. Tobacco and oil companies scored the worst, joining airlines, pharmaceutical companies, health insurance, and HMO's as the biggest overall losers in the past 10 years. Over the past ten years, just three of the 21 industries measured have seen a positive increase in customer satisfaction, and in the past year, just six did, according to Harris. Fourteen industries went down this year.

Google Gets No Mention On Top Brands List

It's somewhat surprising that this is Coca Cola's first number one spot on Harris's "Best Brands" poll, considering the amount of money the company spends on branding and the subsequent associations branding has built in the consumer mind.

Shoppers Want Quick Access To Online Information

The number of people who shop online continues to grow with 48 percent of consumers saying they have increased shopping online "a great deal" or "somewhat" in the past five years, according to a survey sponsored by RightNow Technologies conducted by Harris Interactive.

Mobile Internet Not Yet Mainstream

More than half (53%) of 16-to-24 year olds say they have used the mobile Internet and 36 percent say they do so at least once per week, according to a recent survey from Harris Interactive.

What Americans Think Of The iPhone

The anticipation of the launch of Apple's iPhone has created plenty of buzz. A new survey from Harris Interactive takes a deeper look on what American think about the mother of all mobiles. They found that the iPhone is not yet a household word but that 47 percent of respondents were aware of the product and 17 percent had an interest in buying it, which they noted was impressive for a product that has not yet been released.

Consumers Put Vista On Hold

Since its launch on January 30th of this year, Windows Vista has been met with lukewarm fanfare by analysts and consumers alike. According to a Harris Interactive poll, only 12 percent of those who are aware of Vista actually plan to upgrade to the new operating system.