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Trends on Tuesday: Tablets Taking a Bite Out of PCs
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 [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Growth Hits its Peak?
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 [...]
582 views | Comments OffJan 29th, 2013 | Filed under Gov News, Industry News, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Research, Trends -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile App Downloads Increase
Flurry released numbers on app download totals for the end of 2012 that demonstrate the increasing popularity of smartphones and apps. The final week of the year is perhaps the most important one for app makers, as a number of new devices are activated and new apps are downloaded. As the chart highlights, there was a substantial [...]
669 views | Comments OffJan 8th, 2013 | Filed under Case Study, Challenges, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile News Consumption
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, [...]
334 views | Comments OffNov 13th, 2012 | Filed under Events, Gov News, Industry News, Research, Resources, Trends, Uncategorized -
Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Ownership
Comscore just released data that shows the majority of people in the U.S. who own mobile devices, own smartphones. As of the last day of September, 234 million Americans used mobile devices. For the three month average period ending September 2012, 119.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones. That amounts to 51.0 percent of [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Increase in Internet Connected Mobile Devices
In research released last week, Pew found an interesting statistic that we have been tracking: Half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to the web through either a smartphone or tablet, significantly more than a year ago. Of the 9,513 U.S. adults contacted from June-August 2012 for the survey, there were 4,638 [...]
613 views | Comments OffOct 9th, 2012 | Filed under Industry News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources, Trends -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Entertainment Consumption
People may be getting rid of cable at home, but they’re taking in more content than ever before on their mobile devices. A new study by Millennial Media and comScore…reveals that the market for mobile entertainment content has soared during the past year. Overall, access to entertainment content — anything from downloads to streaming music [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Global Mobile Ubiquity
The World Bank recently released the infographic below in conjunction with the Reboot Blog that highlights findings from it’s mobile ubiquity worldwide report. Here are some of the interesting findings: 75% of the world now has access to a mobile phone The number of mobile subscriptions will soon eclipse the world’s population The developing world [...]
1,420 views | Comments OffSep 4th, 2012 | Filed under Events, Industry News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources, Trends