Nielsen’s third quarter social media report is out for 2011, and the findings are significant. Americans now spend over a quarter of all of their Internet time on social media sites and blogs. We are becoming obsessed with these psuedo-social means of virtually connecting with…
A few days ago, major mobile competitor Nokia announced that its new high-end smartphone, the Lumnia 800, will be available in the U.S. by early 2012. Many are saying that this is the first phone that will be able to truly compete with the iPhone. Let’s see…
We’ve all seen them sitting in Starbucks and lounging on park benches. They’re casually swiping their fingers on high resolution screens and using specialized styluses to create detailed graphics and notes. You won’t see them toting a New York Times or a planner. They have eschewed…
Google has long been criticized for its invasiveness. Just thinking of thousands of Google servers housing all of the search queries associated with our user names is, on face, concerning if not outright alarming. This lack of privacy, however, has always been the trade-off for receiving search results…
With the advent of the iPhone 4S, many people are talking about its most noteworthy improvement: Siri, the almost human, voice recognition software that is integrated in many standard Apple apps. Over the past week, we’ve seen a proliferation of blog posts talking about Siri’s offbeat responses…
By now we’re all familiar with the fatal BlackBerry outage that occurred last week. Interrupting email and Internet services, the outage left many BlackBerry users unconnected to the digital world around them. This outage, worldwide in effect, reached not only US phones, but also mobile devices in Africa, Canada, Europe, and…
When you’re searching for a business in your area, do you pull out your trusty yellow pages book, scan through its many pages, and search for the listing, or do you fire up your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to find the business online? If you’re…
When the first generation of the iPad was launched a little more than a year ago, we couldn’t have predicted that it would revolutionize the way we interact with the Internet. Today, however, its impact is widespread. A plethora of competing tablets have emerged, many e-readers…
At Apple’s last media event “Talk iPhone,” the almost mythical technology innovator introduced Siri, an application that allows users to ask questions and receive intelligent answers from their new 4S iPhone. Now, we’ve all seen some iteration of this software before. Even the most basic…
According to Socialnomics, “71 percent of smartphone users that see TV, press or online ad, do a mobile search for more information, but 79 percent of large online advertisers still do not have a mobile optimized site.” Those are incredible statistics! Smartphone users are clearly interested in interacting with the…