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In a recent survey done by the folks at eMarketer, they discovered that America’s adults are now spending more time with their mobile device than they are with newspapers and magazines. An average adult spends 65 minutes a day staring into their smartphone’s screen, versus 26 minutes for newspapers and 18 minutes for magazines. In…
A recent survey by Kantar Worldpanel concluded that 10% of American consumers over the age of 16 own a tablet of some kind. Of course, the iPad accounts for about two thirds of that, but over the last six months, iPad’s share of sales has shrunk to 50%. As a case in point, 10% of…
According to a new report from Juniper Research, almost $55 billion in international remittances will be enabled via mobile devices in 2016, up from less than $12 billion this year. Unsurprisingly established migration corridors such as the US-Mexico and intra-regional transfers across Africa and the Middle East will lead the growth, though inter/intra-regional activity from…
The world’s smallest violin is playing for Android Honeycomb tonight as a study reveals that the tablet-optimized OS only claims a one percent share among versions of Android. Lackluster Android tablet sales throughout the year make this less of a shock, but it still is a little startling. The Chitika ad network wanted to conduct…
Once again the iPad validates itself as the number one desired tablet in a new survey by Maritz Research. In addition to the iPad being the most popular brand among businesses, people that own Android, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows mobile phones show a preference for iPads over any other tablet else. This is interesting because you would think…
Apple did something different when the announced the iPhone 4S. Instead of terminating sales of the previous generation model, the iPhone 4, they continued selling it at a discounted price. They didn’t stop there though, they also kept on selling the now 30 month old iPhone 3GS. All that choice means the iPhone has all…
A recent survey conducted by IT security expert Avira revealed that 60 percent of consumers want a tablet or smartphone for the holidays. When people were asked the question “What new IT gadget would you like for the holidays?” 30 percent said a tablet and 28 percent said a smartphone. Not everyone is as into mobile as us, as 24 percent…
Fiserv, a financial and technology solutions company, conducted some really interesting research that showed a significant uptick in the way consumers pay their bills. It turns out that six million Americans have used smartphones to make bill payments in the past year, according to the company’s 2011 Billing Household Survey. This is not only due to the change…
Not too long ago, a very large sum of people were afraid to shop online due to fears of credit card theft and other reasons. Not only are most of us now comfortable with shopping online, we’re going on shopping sprees on our mobile devices more than ever, according to a new study from comScore.…
We knew that Android 2.3.x Gingerbread would eventually become the largest version used and Google’s latest stats prove just that. Gingerbread is now running on slightly more than 50% of all devices that have accessed the Android Market in the past two weeks and has no signs of slowing down. Introduced almost exactly a year…