[youtube width="450" height="400"] lTYZTwWKaNI [/youtube] Federal agency mobile implementation is an important aspect of the Digital Government Strategy, so last week the Mobile Gov team and Digital Gov University partnered for a “Mobile First” Webinar. A “mobile first” approach is where new websites and applications are designed for mobile devices first, instead of designed for the traditional desktop.  Representatives from [...]

People are going online using their phones, and online includes email. About nine out of ten people check email on their mobile devices daily. A report by the Direct Marketing Association found that click rates from emails are decreasing. … the main reason for the drop in click rates lies with the rise in use [...]

Pew data collected in April shows a majority of adult cell phone users, 55%, go online using their phones. More than half of adult internet users, 53%, used their cell phone Internet to surf to different sites, an increase of 28% from three years ago, while 44% used their phones to check and send emails, up [...]

Americans using either an e-reader or a tablet rose from 18% in December of 2011 to 29% in January of 2012 according to PEW Research Center. The demographics include some interesting trends. 47% of all tablet users are between  30-49 compared to the 26% between 18-29 and 21% between 50-64. E-readers age trends are similar: [...]

Recent data from the Department of Labor website shows that mobile device use and mobile device traffic are trending up. As we posted last Tuesday, globally mobile device usage leaped from 2% to 8% in June 2010 to 10% in May 2012, according to data from KPCB. How does this translate at the U.S. Department of Labor? [...]

People are increasingly using their phones to access the Internet. New information on 2012 Internet trends via KPCB shows that mobile Internet traffic has increased ten-fold in less than three years–from 1% of Internet traffic at the end of 2009 to 10% in May 2012.

Mixed messages around mobile web and apps coming in via comScore mobile data. comScore looked at smartphone users to identify top mobile sites and how those sites engage their users. They compared app use to mobile web use. Analysis of the share of time spent across apps and browsers revealed that even though these access [...]

Is mobile changing us? The rapid adoption of cell phones and, especially, the spread of internet-connected smartphones are changing people’s communications with others and their relationships with information. Users’ ability to access data immediately through apps and web browsers and through contact with their social networks is creating a new culture of real-time information seekers [...]