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National Institute on Drug Abuse Mobile Website
To give their users anytime, anywhere access to information, the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently implemented a mobile website. The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s mobile Web site, m.drugabuse.gov, gives users quick and easy access to facts about illicit drugs, the science behind addiction, drug abuse research funding, and more. Mobile users benefit from easy-to-find [...]
1,446 views | 1 commentAug 30th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Changes How We Travel
Business2Community recently released the interesting infographic below with stats from Comscore and other sources regarding how people are integrating mobile into their travel. Highlights from the infographic include: 51% of smartphone owners used their device to access flight or hotel contents (ComScore). Airlines list of mobile-related topics searched by users: prices, schedules and contact details Smartphone usage has almost [...]
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Digital Government Strategy Milestones Report
Yesterday marked three months since the release of the Digital Government Strategy and agencies have been making great strides in meeting the milestones toward building a 21st Century Government. In his blog, Building-blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government, Steve Van Roekel said Executing on this vision of government cannot happen alone. To provide the [...]
1,228 views | Comments OffAug 24th, 2012 | Filed under Events, Gov News, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources -
Building-Blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government
Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel highlighted the new Census Bureau app “America’s Economy” in his Digital Government Strategy update today. Here is what he had to say: Today marks three months since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5) – as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. [...]
1,201 views | Comments OffAug 23rd, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Challenges, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Barcode Scanning Explosion
Barcode Scan Share Age Group Q4 2011 Q2 2012 Under 18 11% 8% 18-24 22 16 25-34 28 26 35-44 22 24 45-54 10 16 55 + 7 11 Source: Scanbuy/Marketing Charts, August 2012 With the continued growth of mobile, QR codes and other mobile phone scannable barcode formats are exploding in popularity. From the [...]
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U.S. Census America’s Economy App
The U.S. Census Bureau recently launched the America’s Economy app as part of an effort to increase and improve access to their statistics. The app is currently available on the Android and iOS platforms. Census describes the app: Take the pulse of the U.S. Economy straight from your phone. The America’s Economy app provides real-time [...]
1,432 views | 2 commentsAug 16th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Challenges, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
Trends on Tuesday: User Mobile Phone Problems
While there are a number of benefits to mobile technology, cell phone owners encounter technical glitches and unwanted intrusions on their phones. In an April survey of mobile phone users, Pew identified the four most prevalent cell phone user problems. They included: Dropped phone calls Unwanted sales or marketing calls Spam or unwanted text messages (based on [...]
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National Weather Service’s Emergency Alerts System
The National Weather Service recently started sending severe weather warnings to smartphone users in the path of hazardous weather conditions in some areas. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system will notify people of approaching tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, flash floods, extreme winds, blizzards, ice, and dust storms, by sending an up-to-90 character message to their smartphone. The NWS [...]
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