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Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Data Growth
Data has surpassed voice traffic on mobile phones. But how much data is being consumed? According to Cisco’s Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update Global mobile data traffic grew 2.3-fold in 2011, more than doubling for the fourth year in a row. In 2011, Mobile data traffic was eight times the size of the entire [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: App Economy
Apps development is becoming an economic force. According to a new study published by TechNet, an industry group, mobile app development is creating jobs. The study found that there were about 466,000 jobs in the “App Economy” in the United States, up from zero in 2007. Top U.S. Metro Areas With Highest Percentage of App [...]
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Weigh In On Federal Mobility Strategy
In case you missed it, there is a Federal Mobility Strategy in the works. From Federal CIO, Steve Van Roekel [T]here is more we can do to seize the mobile opportunity, and we need to be bold in doing it. We need to address the massive variations in the way we pay for mobile services [...]
1,667 views | 2 commentsJan 20th, 2012 | Filed under Gov News, Mobile StrategyTags: API, apps, best practices, data, devices, industry, innovation, mobile discussion, mobile gov, mobile use, mobilegov, privacy, security, strategy -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Year in Review
Checking in at the end of the year with Mobile Future and their fast paced mobile year in review. [youtube width="400" height="300"]aKAIzU90zA8[/youtube] A Few Highlights 8 trillion texts sent this year 103 million wireless tweets posted each day 1 billion Foursquare check-ins over the year 26 photos posted on Instagram every second Here to Help [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: More Mobile Subscriber Connections than People
Here is an interesting trend that Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life project discussed in a presentation about the role of Web and New Media in the public sector today . “There are 315.5 million people in the United States and according to the CTIA there are 327.6 million mobile subscriber connections [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Shopping Takes Off!
People used their mobile devices in record numbers on Black Friday. According to Mobile Marketing Watch Shoppers in the U.S. purchased nearly two and a half times as many items via eBay Mobile this Black Friday when compared to 2010. Correspondingly, PayPal Mobile announced a six-fold (516%) increase in global mobile payment volume compared to [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Choices
Smartphone adoption continues to grow. Last month’s Nielsen Mobile Insights survey found While 43 percent of all mobile subscribers in the US had a smartphone as of August, 56 percent of those who got a new device in the last 3 months chose a smartphone over a feature phone. And Android is taking a bigger [...]
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Trends On Tuesday: Most Internet Access Via Mobile by 2015
New predictions released by International Data Corporation (IDC). By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices. As smartphones begin to outsell simpler feature phones, and as media tablet sales explode, the number of mobile Internet users will grow by a compound annual growth [...]
1,692 views | 1 commentSep 13th, 2011 | Filed under Industry News, Trends