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Mobile Payments Not Yet Ready to Go Mainstream

Some countries are making progress towards adoption of mobile payments, but on the whole, there is still a ways to go before the world reaches mobile payment readiness, finds MasterCard WorldWide in a May 2012 study that combined public and proprietary data with...

Smartphone Users Say Web Access More Indispendable Than Texting

Internet access tops the list of functions smartphone users could not live without, cited by 20.8% of respondents to a Prosper Mobile Insights survey [download page] released in February 2012. In fact, smartphone users said that internet access was more indispensable...

Cybercrime Hits 431M Web Users

Cybercrime has been pervasive in the past year, hitting 431 million web users worldwide in the past year, according to [pdf] a September 2011 study from Norton by Symantec and StrategyOne. Data from the "Norton Cybercrime Report 2011" indicates cybercrime-related...

Promo Email Volume l 10 Key Email Steps l Teen Email Views

The top online retailers sent each of their subscribers 3.2 promotional emails on average during the week ending Aug. 26, 2011, according to the Retail Email Index from the Retail Email Blog. That's up 6% week-over-week, up 5% from where it was four weeks ago, and up...

1 in 5 Consumers Will Pay More for Eco-Friendly

While the majority of consumers around the world (83%) say that it is important that companies implement programs to improve the environment, only 22% say they will pay more for an eco-friendly product, according to The Nielsen Company's 2011 Global Online Environment...

Overall Residential Electricity Satisfaction Largely Status Quo

Although residential electric utility customers are less satisfied with power quality, reliability and price than in 2010, improvements in operational-related aspects have largely mitigated the negative effects on overall satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and...

More of This Week’s Research for Marketers, Week Ending July 8, 2011

Below are some links to recent research news, studies and lists from the collection of items that MarketingCharts didn't get to writing up this week, but still may be worth a peek: Germany Has Highest European Web Penetration Music Sales for Albums and Digital Tracks...

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