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Survey: 48% of motorists between 18-29 use Internet while driving

Survey: 48% of motorists between 18-29 use Internet while driving
  • Posted November 23, 2012, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
  • According to a survey performed by State Farm Insurance, as many as 21 percent of smartphone-owning drivers confess to accessing the web while driving -- or webbing -- as the company refers to it. Drivers between the ages of 18…

U.S. monthly data use up 120%, Netflix one-third of peak web traffic

U.S. monthly data use up 120%, Netflix one-third of peak web traffic
  • Posted November 7, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • According to Sandvine, American monthly data use over fixed-line infrastructure has more than doubled this year. U.S. households averaged 23GB per month in 2011, but saw that number increase to 51GB in 2012. That's an increase of more than 120…

Consumers love their tablets, study shows, favor iPad, Kindle Fire

Consumers love their tablets, study shows, favor iPad, Kindle Fire
  • Posted August 7, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Analytics firm comScore has released the results of a three-month TabLens survey which aimed to discover more insight about tablet owners and what they like. The firm draws a number of conclusions from its results, but most notably it finds…

Chrome, IE market share creeps upward, Firefox losing ground

Chrome, IE market share creeps upward, Firefox losing ground
  • Posted May 1, 2012, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • According to data from analytics firm Net Applications, Internet Explorer may be making a slow come back after years of being on the decline. Although IE's market share only ticked upward from 53.83 to 54.09 percent, this is compounded by…

Forrester: Tablets expected to supplant laptops by 2016

Forrester: Tablets expected to supplant laptops by 2016
  • Posted April 26, 2012, 9:30 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Thanks in part to industry efforts to make tablets both magical (video) and affordable, Forrester Research predicts that tablets will become the preferred computing device for millions of people by 2016. Global tablet sales have been steadily climbing and there's no doubt…

NPD survey: 40 percent of freemium gamers pay for in-game content

NPD survey: 40 percent of freemium gamers pay for in-game content
  • Posted April 23, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Gaming
  • According to the NPD Group, for every five gamers in the U.S. who play freemium games, two of those individuals will purchase in-game content. Freemium, which also falls into the category of F2P or free-to-play, is a sales model where…

Pew: 20% of adults avoid Internet, smartphones closing digital divide

Pew: 20% of adults avoid Internet, smartphones closing digital divide
  • Posted April 17, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
  • According to an annual Pew Research survey, about 1 out of 5 American adults don't use the Internet. Out of that 20 percent, most of those adults believe the Internet is irrelevant to their lives while merely 10 percent of…

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