Why That Electricity Price Study Can't Be Trusted 
Is The US Outspending Entire Economies Purely On Garbage Bags? 
Study Doesn't Prove Aussie Cost Of Living Is High 
Seven Key Facts About What Aussies Do Online 
Ten Things To Remember When Doing The Census Online 
The Average Australian Only Downloads 6GB A Month Freelancing is a tempting route if you want more control over your career path, but just where will your competition come from? Freelance exchange site Freelancer.com recently signed up its 3 millionth user, and provided Lifehacker with some interesting statistics to mark the occasion.
The annual Communications Report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority offers a wealth of statistics about how we get online and what we do when we get there. Here are the seven which stuck out for us.
Listings that pit cities against each other as the best place to live tend to stimulate argument, and I suspect this one will be no exception. The 2011 Mercer Quality Of Living rankings rate Sydney as the best city in Australia to live in, and the 11th-best in the world.
We’re pretty fond of mobile broadband here at Lifehacker HQ, and it turns out that we’re far from alone. The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggest that as of June, 44 per cent of all Internet connections were via mobile broadband, while 41 per cent were via ADSL.
A footnote to all our coverage of doing the census online: according to IBM (which managed the IT for the project), just under 30 per cent of households went for the online option, up from 9 per cent in the previous census. It’s a shame quite a few forgot to hit submit first time around, but it still suggests we’ll all be online in about five censuses or so.
Career mobility seems like a fact of life these days, and here’s more evidence: a study of 3,000 Australians suggests that amongst people working in IT, 43 per cent plan to change jobs within a year and 57 per cent have been with their current employer for less than 12 months.
Based on our recent survey of Lifehacker users, phones are rapidly overtaking laptops and notebooks as the BYO device of choice. Plus: who won the tablets we were giving away?
Here’s an odd statistic: according to the Norton Cybercrime Report, if you’ve experienced an online crime in the last year, you’re more likely to have also been the victim of a real world crime. While 9 per cent of people who haven’t managed to suffer identify theft or a virus had been a victim of burglary, robbing or violence, that figure jumps to 17 per cent for people who has been victims of electronic crimes.
Newly-released figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggest that the average household spends $1236 a week. Where does that money go?
Lack of enthusiasm for Vista meant that Windows XP managed to outlast almost every prediction for how long it would stick around. But it looks like Windows 7 has well and truly turned that tide, with 94 per cent of new PCs now shipping running Windows 7 and 42 per cent of corporate desktops running the OS, according to research firm Gartner.
