The annuity market is a multi-billion market these days and the Pensions Institute of the National Association of Pension Funds estimates that approximately £1 billion is wasted per year by pension scheme members thanks to poor decision making. Commissioned in March 2012, the research surveyed around 250 pensioners who had retired in the last 6 months and found the following reasons for the wastage of this staggering sum.
Before the internet, the only way governments or organizations like the Catholic Church could prevent certain thoughts from infiltrating the population was by banning books and executing people who produced and distributed them. These days, the whole world is connected to the internet and hence we have governments and agencies censoring the internet to prevent certain types of materials from being publicly available. We investigate the main reasons behind internet censorship.
Tech developers lose a lot of money when users choose to use a pirated copy of the software they have made instead of buying it. Even though companies have been trying their best to prevent piracy, most software programs end up becoming available for free within a few days of them being launched. We try to find out what motivates people to pirate software.
Bullying in general is a huge social problem. However, with the spread of the internet, bullying too has taken on a new form and cyberbullying has become more rampant than ever before. However, most of us simply do not understand why seemingly normal people would take to cyberbullying. We examine the root causes behind this astounding phenomenon.
The internet is a very real part of human existence at the moment. And while it has enriched human civilization by making all of human knowledge available to everyone, it has also led to the development of internet addiction. People become addicted to the internet for a variety of reasons and we investigate the major causes of this insane dependence.
If you Google the words “advertising on the internet”, you are likely to be bombarded with a multi-thousand search result all of which apparently points at how popular advertising online is. However, anyone with real experience of advertising on the internet is likely to tell you that the idea isn’t as good as all those websites articles claim it to be and a majority of business owners are in fact turning away from internet advertising for good. We investigate what is prompting people to avoid advertising on the internet.
Arguing on the internet is as futile as accumulating a million in Farm Cash on Farmville. It serves no purpose in real life as an online argument provides no solutions to real life problems. So why do people spend so much time and energy in arguing with complete strangers over the internet? Let’s find out.
One of the most annoying occurrences on the internet is when people start acting tough. Most commonplace on forums, the behavior is seen through comment wars where people, often complete strangers, begin threatening others with dire consequences or begins making tall claims that appear too noble to be real. One of life’s great mysteries is why people act tough on the internet and we try to explain this unexplainable behavior.
Virtually every store in the world has at least one or two items that are marked with a price ending in .99. The .99 ending phenomenon has revolutionized pricing and sales around the world though customers don’t always know why products are priced as such and how does it benefit retailers.
Just a few short years ago, failure in internet services was not all that uncommon. Sites were not capable of handling a sudden influx of traffic and servers crashed more frequently. However, thanks to more fault-tolerant servers, internet services have become way steadier and way more crash-proof these days. However, it is still vital to learn the causes behind the failure of internet services so that such problems do not become commonplace once again in the future.