Gigaom recently compared data from IDC on fourth quarter PC tablet and PC sales and found IDC estimates that 52.5 million tablets shipped in the final quarter of 2012. That compares to 89.8 million personal computers shipped during the same quarter… For tablets that’s more than half the number of PCs. Gigaom says this is based on [...]

This infographic,  posted on Pinterest by research group McKinsey and Company, contrasts the differences between the locations where tablet and smartphone users say they conduct various activities on their devices.  A quick glance shows that smartphone user activities are conducted predominately on the go while tablet user activities are conducted mostly at home. While more [...]

The “Mobile Year in Review” video, courtesy of Mobile Future, rapidly documents the evolution of mobile in 2012. Some highlights include: Mobile data usage literally DOUBLED in 2012. OVER 50 PERCENT of all mobile data was video, and consumers watched 9.3 BILLION mobile videos in the U.S. alone MORE THAN HALF of AMERICANS now own smartphones, and there are MORE THAN 1 [...]

A recent Mediapost blog about mobile news consumption highlighted data from a Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism report. Here are some highlights. According to a detailed survey of news use on mobile devices, half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to the web through either a smartphone or tablet, [...]

According to an in-depth study by InMobile, an independent mobile advertising network, smartphone and tablet adoption is dramatically rising in the US. Tablet use has now surpassed 29.5 million users. Even more interesing is the increased amount of time users are spending on their devices. Connected devices are also significantly cannibalizing other forms of entertainment [...]

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: [...]

DocsTeach is a mobile application developed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that allows teachers to create and share lesson plans built on the DocsTeach website with their students. The DocsTeach App was built at the request of teachers so their students could access lesson plans built on the DocsTeach website while in the [...]