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Mobile commerce played an integral part of the 2011 holiday season
InternetRetailer.com
“Mobile continues to play a large role in driving Gilt's business,” says a spokeswoman at Gilt Groupe, No. 9 in the Internet Retailer Mobile Commerce Top 300. “And we continue to utilize mobile as a channel to reach both existing and new customers ...
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Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World's Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing
New York Times
“But the situations are very different, and the mobile situation doesn't break down along socioeconomic lines.” The Arieso survey found that 64 percent of extreme users were using a laptop, a third were using a smartphone and 3 percent had an iPad. ...
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New York Times
Half of Mobile Web Users Are Apple Users Survey Says
Southern Daily Press
According to a survey conducted by leading research firm NetMarketShare, over half of the World Wide Web's mobile users are surfing the Internet via Apple's iPad and iPhone. Compared to other brands or types of mobile devices, Apple's two products have ...
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Should your small business go completely wireless?
ZDNet (blog)
I challenge small businesses to really sit down at the beginning of 2012 and understand what they are truly playing in Internet and mobile data access fees. Chances are, you really don't know what you are paying because some of those bills are being ...
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Charter Expands Online, Mobile Content With Turner Shows
Broadcasting & Cable
Charter customers will also have access to iPhone and iPad mobile apps for each channel, including live streaming of CNN and HLN's 24-hour television networks. Android apps are planned for launch early this year. The authenticated offerings are free as ...
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Nuance Launches Developer Contest for Voice-Enabled Mobile Health Apps
eWeek
Nuance is challenging developers to use its cloud mobile health care platform to develop speech-recognition apps for mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone and iPad. Nuance Communications has launched the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge, ...
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TiVo Launches Android App
PC Magazine
By Will Greenwald The TiVo App for Android joins the TiVo App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch in letting users manage their TiVo devices from their mobile devices. The app includes channel and episode guide support, record and season pass functions, ...
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Startup Secret No. 17: Chase storms
CNET
Mobile computing became one of these tornadoes, with iPad, iPhone and Android devices coming to dominate the enterprise. It's a dramatic market shift in technology away from Microsoft. Within three hours of the iPadbeing announced by Steve Jobs, ...
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CNET
Christmas shopping set to be even better online next year: study
InternetRetailing.net
The study found 14% of respondents used an iPad or alternative tablet computer to shop this year, almost as many as the 15% who bought by mobile phone. “Our research demonstrates that tablets are now growing even faster than the mobile commerce market ...
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Mobile Technology Will Dominate Everything
PC Advisor
Instead, they're trying to figure out how to beat Apple's iPad. The only tablet that came close to competing with the $500-and-up iPad in 2011 was Amazon's $200 Kindle Fire. The lesson seems clear: Tablets need to be much cheaper than the iPad to have ...
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Social media thriving in crises
Bangkok Post
The past few months have seen the power of social networks amplified through communication technologies such as mobile phones and the internet, particularly across countries in Asia. In fact, Asia-Pacific markets have the highest mobile phone ...
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Paul Childs COO Adfonic – Mobile Advertising Trends for 2012
GoMo News
2011 was a year of rapid growth and change in the mobile advertising industry. It was the year that saw smartphones, tablets and the mobile internet become mainstream among consumers and that saw marketers and advertisers increase spend and begin to...
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What's going to happen in mobile tech in 2012
VentureBeat
As products like the iPad and Android devices continue to proliferate, we could also see this spread more broadly into the entertainment realm. The rapid growth of NFC and mobile payment technologies is already having an impact on traditional purchase ...
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VentureBeat
Christmas 2011 e-commerce stats round up
Econsultancy (blog)
640000 tablets were given as gifts to adults, with the iPad dominating the market with 72% of sales. According to stats from Flurry, 6.8m iOS and Android devices, including mobiles and tablets were activated on Christmas Day, compared to the normal ...
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Econsultancy (blog)
SpawGlass Chooses AGT's Mobile Video Conferencing Platform to Enhance Visual ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Now, mobile users can participate in meetings between regional offices via laptop, iPador iPhone. In addition, the system provides a sophisticated environment for video conferencing with clients and consultants. The company also now is utilizing the ...
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2012 Outlook For Internet Stocks
Seeking Alpha
Going forward mobile and social media campaigns will help generate more sales. Demand Media (DMD) has been given an Equal-weight rating by Morgan Stanley with a fair value of $10. Demand Media is the 18th largest US internet property with around 60MM ...
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What happened when I got an iPad for Christmas
On Line opinion
When I first got a Palm pilot I wished it would integrate with my mobile, then I wished my (very large by today's standards) mobile would double as an MP3 player and that my (oh so light 6kg!) laptop would be able to access the internet wirelessly and ...
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Readability tools break digital advertising. How to adapt?
Knight Digital Media Center (blog)
Solution 1: Just give mobile users a good web reading experience. In 2-3 years, most US internet users will access the internet via mobile devices (phones and tablets). And while apps offer the best presentation capabilities for content and ads, ...
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CNET's Next Big Thing of 2012: the ecosystem. Should we fear it?
CNET
Back then, companies like Samsung and Vizio were talking about creating tablets that talked to their TVs and app stores that could integrate theirmobile devices into the entire living room full of devices. Apple is the model, of course, having already ...
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CNET
apps bring seasonal cheer to TV
The Guardian
As millions watched EastEnders this Christmas – proving once again the enduring popularity of soaps – the small screen got an added boost as new iPad and smartphone owners downloaded apps that bring internet and TV viewing closer together. ...
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Toddlers, touch screens and the parents' dilemma
The Australian
A US poll taken late last year by Common Sense Media found 38 per cent of children aged eight and younger had used a mobile device: smartphone, iPod or a tablet. Broken down, the numbers were higher in the five to eight category (at 52 per cent), ...
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Technology: Forrester Wrongly Predicts the Death of Web Pages
Formtek Blog (blog)
It's faster, simpler and offers a better internet experience.” Colony is calling this next wave of computing the 'App Internet'. It is certainly clear that Internet-aware applications are becoming a big part of the Internet and mobile industry. ...
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Using Tablets to Boost Your Business
LifeHealthPro
The second type of information available from your mobile device, more on-the-fly, is any web content that may be fluid or interactive, such asonline calculators or Social Security administration information. While this second type of information is ...
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LifeHealthPro
1.3 Billion Workers to Go Mobile by 2015
Scientific American
"The iPad, just as it is in the consumer market, is synonymous for 'tablet' in the business market, leaving Apple poised to take advantage of the increased spending intentions of these SMBs. NPD's research shows thatiPad purchase preference is higher ...
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Scientific American
Mashable's Digital Predictions for 2012
Mashable
Mobile payments will start to become recognizable, and more people will understand what it is.- Keith Kaplan The Oscars will be streamed — in their entirety — online and on mobile. – Lance Ulanoff I saw the future early in 2011 when my colleague ...
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BSkyB reveals Mintel research on mobile
GoMo News
This time it is BSkyB which has released Sky Sports News for iPad. It offers live and on-demand video; rich interactive graphics; and up-to-the-minute data. In a blog on the official Sky site here, the company's director of mobile, David Gibbs, ...
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GoMo News
Samsung launches ChatON on the App Store
The Next Web
If that wasn't enough, a web interface will also be developed in order to cover all Internet-connected mobile devices. Considering the app's popularity among Android owners, with between 100000 and 500000 installations, these users may request their ...
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The Next Web
World's biggest tech show searching for "wow"
Reuters
"This year there's going to be a focus on connectivity and mobility that continues the momentum we've seen for the past few years, even though we may not see quite so many big announcements by (mobile) carriers as we did last year," said Ross Rubin, ...
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Landmark Moves In at OAK and Launches New Mobile App
Aviation International News
The Houston-based FBO chain has released Landmark Connect, its application for the Apple iPhone and iPad that provides customers with a directory of services, amenities and contact information for all the locations in its network. ...
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Aviation International News
Zynga Inc Debuts Scramble With Friends - NASDAQ:ZNGA
Galaxy Stocks
For the gaming enthusiasts, Zynga Inc NASDAQ:ZNGA offers exclusively the nextmobile social game app in its 'With Friends' franchise: Scramble With Friends. The world's leading social game developer provides the new offer on the App Store for iPhone...
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PRAIRIE NEWS
Prairie Business
Eide Bailly LLP, a regional certified public accounting and business advisory firm in Fargo, ND, announced the availability of its Eide Bailly Mobile App for the Apple iPad. The app is free and offers insights and updates, calculators and learning ...
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Treehouse Labs and NXP cooperate
electronicsfeed.com
The thesis behind the BiKN Technology Platform is three-fold: Integrate hardware and software; operate through mobile and web-enabled devices; and leverage a patented advantage by using IEEE802.15.4 low-power networking standards enabling rapid ...
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Gathering Around the Tablet: A Glimpse of the Future in the Frozen North
Xconomy
(Internet data gets beamed in wirelessly from a transmitter on nearby Ester Dome.) What we did have at hand, however, were four tablets (three iPads and a Motorola Xoom) and three smartphones (one iPhone and two Motorola Atrix Android phones). ...
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Protect your data from weather-related disaster
Crain's New York Business
Remember, if your local cable service goes down and you lose your Internet connection, you could be left in the lurch—unless you have access to the Internet via mobiledevices such as your smartphone or an iPad. Save your data in another region. ...
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More ways to stay safe
Irish Independent
If you've fallen victim to hi-tech fraud via a computer or a mobile device, there is very little you can do about it besides report it to your internet service provider or mobileoperator, so it's ever more important to take sensible precautions when ...
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Ten Events that will Transform the Technology Industry in 2012
Telecom Reseller (press release)
In parallel with the rise of mobile devices like ultrabooks and tablets will be the increasing prominence of cloud computing as a competitive differentiator. This year will see innovations and refinements in how mobile devices interact with the cloud. ...
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Radish Wins Product of the Year Award for ChoiceView “Voice with Visuals”
PR Web (press release)
Radish Systems, LLC is improving the way businesses communicate with smart mobiledevice users through its ChoiceView 'Communications-as-a-Service' technology platform, available as a general mobile app on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ...
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Google Builds Muscle with IBM & Motorola Patents to Beat Lawsuits
SubmitinME
The acquisition of mobile patents has become a top priority for Google in the face of aggressive Apple lawsuits against Android vendors such as Samsung and HTC. Google is under the compulsion to strengthen its patent portfolio as the fight for ...
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SubmitinME
LoveFilm signs BBC and ITV deals in Netflix TV rights battle
The Guardian
The Amazon subsidiary said the deal would make ITV content available to subscribers of its LoveFilm Instant service on the PC, Apple iPad, Xbox 360, internet-connected TVs and on the Sony PlayStation 3. The subscription VoD agreement will include ...
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London, Austin and Chicago to be Travel Hotspots in 2012, the Orbitz Insider ...
Sacramento Bee
Steals are available across all mobile channels including the mobile website (m.orbitz.com) and the latest versions of the Orbitz iPad, iPhone and Android apps. Flash Sales: The number of flash sale sites rose more than 350% from July of 2009 to July ...
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iPad still selling strongly | Techwatch: Tech News
See all Mobiles News ... internet. ECJ rules site blocking unlawful. Anti- censorship supporters will be celebrating ... Kindle Fire sales have cannibalised iPad ...
www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/12/27/ipad-still-selling-strongly/
iPhone, iPad ring in 13 percent of all online ... - CNET News.com
Online sales were up on Christmas Day, and mobile shopping more than ... If you used an iPhone or iPad to buy something online on Christmas, you had plenty ...
news.cnet.com/.../iphone-ipad-ring-in-13-percent-of-all-online...
Best accessories for your new iPad or iPhone | News | TechRadar
Best accessories for your new iPad or iPhone Speaker docks, headphones, cases and more : TechRadar. ... Phone deals · Mobile phone recycling .... Armed with DAB, DAB+, FM and internet radio, the Revo Axis is so much more than a ...
www.techradar.com/.../best-accessories-for-your-new-ipad-or-...
13% of Christmas Day Online Sales Conducted via iPhone, iPad
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PhatPad for iPad ( - Mobile - Software ) - IDG News Service
PhatPad for iPad ( Mobile Software ) PhatPad from app developer Stan Miasnikov ...with web development firm BOLD Internet Solutions, living somewhere near ...
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