Mobile World Live reports that there were a record 700 million smartphone shipments in 2012. While shipments in 2012 were 43 percent up on the 490.5 million shipped in 2011, the growth was below the 64 percent increase seen in the previous year. Does this mean that smartphone adoption growth has reached its peak? One [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

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Announcing the Mobile Platform Development Webinar Series! GSA’s Mobile Gov Program Management Office is working with agencies throughout government to help them deliver government content–information, data and services–anytime, anywhere and on any device. One way to  deliver content to citizens is via applications on mobile devices or native mobile apps. Agencies with mission-related apps need to [...]

According to Pew, almost 50% of American adults now own a smartphone, an 11% increase over last year. Audience Differences The devil is always in the details. Agencies need to take a careful look at their audience(s) before deploying mobile products. If your audience is low-income seniors, 89% of whom do not own these new [...]