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ChangeWave shows iPad dominating steady tablet market

, Jun 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

This month the analysts at ChangeWave are reporting that the tablet market as a whole is growing steadily as of this May, with the iPad continuing to show undeniable dominance over its competitors. The only two tablets shown to be grabbing a market share worth mentioning in this study were the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, with ChangeWave noting that Samsung is growing while Amazon falls. This study shows that tablet demand as of May of this year continues to grow steadily, with 7% of respondents saying they were planning on purchasing a tablet in the next 90 days. Read The Full Story

Twitter Usage doubles year-to-year

, Jun 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Those of you not on the world's most famous text-based social network, it's time to jump aboard as usage has doubled over the past year. A report coming from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that right around 15 percent of online adults use Twitter as of February 2012, with just about 8 percent of them using Twitter in November of 2010. Where the usage explosion really hits is in the amount of people who said they used Twitter daily, with 8% of adults saying they do here in 2012 and 4% of them saying they did in May of 2011. Read The Full Story

Nielsen: first time Smartphone and Feature Phone usage equal

, Mar 30th 2012 Discuss [1]

It's the first time this has ever happened folks, so mark it on your calendar: Nielsen Wire has reported that they've found both Smartphones and Feature Phones (every kind of cell phone other than Smartphones) are being used an equal amount in the USA. This finding covers February, a point at which - as you can see on the chart below, Smartphone use has moved up to 50% while cellphone use other than Smartphones has leveled down to 50%. In addition to this, it appears that over the past three months, new acquirers of Smartphones specifically picked up an iPhone nearly as much as they did any Android device on the market - with BlackBerry and "Other" down in the dust. Read The Full Story

iPad shakes up Corporate Market says ChangeWave

, Mar 13th 2012 Discuss [1]

The folks at ChangeWave have been doing analysis of the corporate world as it interacts with Apple's iPad over the past 12+ months, finding that this newest model slate has the strongest appeal yet for businesses looking to upgrade their employees. Of the 1,604 businesses surveyed by ChangeWave Research, 22% expect to buy tablets for their employees, with 84% of those businesses saying they're planning on purchasing the iPad specifically. This number is up from 77% looking to buy iPads (again inside that selection of businesses that plan on buying tablets) just this past November. Read The Full Story

TechNet study shows App Economy one gigantic job creator

, Feb 7th 2012 Discuss [6]

The bipartisan organization of top technology executives known as TechNet has recently found that jobs that fall under the "App Economy" umbrella number in the six digits: 466,000 people in the USA alone. This study concludes that software applications for smartphones, tablets, and Facebook combined have created nearly 500,000 new jobs in the United States since 2005. This rapid increase of jobs from this environment spells good news for the technology world and especially the mobile world where app creation reigns supreme. Read The Full Story

NDP reports Android beating down iOS in first-time smartphone buyers

, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [6]

Though Apple's iPhone 4S did show off the strongest quarter for Apple of any iPhone this Q4 2011, Android is being shown by NDP to be taking the cream of the crop for new users. What you'll see here is a time period between October and December of the year 2011, with all smartphone buyers choosing Android only slightly more than iOS with the iPhone, then with first-time smartphone buyers Android clearly winning the poll. While you do keep in mind that iOS is only counting up a few devices, you should take note that the rest of the smart device world is only hitting on 9% total, this showing the true power of the Google vs Apple force. Read The Full Story

Verizon wins greatest customer care in USA says J.D. Power

, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [1]

Here in the second month of 2012, analysts at J.D. Power and Associates have announced Verizon Wireless to be the full service provider with the greatest customer care in the industry here in the United States. In a study based on feedback done with wireless customers who had recently contacted their wireless service providers via the web, by phone, or in stores, Verizon came out on top. These studies were performed by J.D. Power and Associates between July and December of 2011. Read The Full Story

Distimo shows Android apps featured in market gain heavily over iPhone

, Jan 26th 2012 Discuss [6]

There's a brand new study out right this moment by Distimo which shows that apps featured in the Android Market gain massive appeal while apps featured in the iTunes market, either for iPhone or for iPad, saw similar but not nearly as impressive bumps. What you'll see here is two things: when featured in the market, it's actually the iPad apps specifically (when testing iPad apps, iPhone apps, and Android apps on the whole) that gained the most popularity in sales/rating - but it's after the featured period is done where you see the undeniable blast of growth for Android. After the featured period for each of these categories, while iPad apps went up 145% and iPhone apps went up 75%, Android apps went up a whopping 828%! Read The Full Story

Apple-PC divide worse than originally reported

, Jan 25th 2012 Discuss [33]

People didn't buy nearly as many Windows computers in the fourth quarter of 2011 as they did the year before. We already knew that, but now there's a footnote that presents an even worse picture for the PC market. It was originally presented that Apple computer sales grew by 20.7% from Q4 2010 to Q4 2011, and that PCs on the whole declined by 5.9%. When you look more closely, though, that latter number should be even worse. Read The Full Story

Apple moves in on business equipment through 2013 projects Forrester Research

, Jan 7th 2012 Discuss [8]

This week the folks at Forrester have released their Global Tech Market Outlook for both 2012 and 2013, and in this report it would seem that Apple is making such notable inroads on the computer equipment market over the next two years that they’ve rated them the industry’s biggest disruptive force over that time span. In addition, it would seem that this disruption is not only that sales will increase for Apple across such lucrative groups as global business and government purchases of personal computers, but that Wintel PCs and tablet sales in those sectors will begin to change negatively after two positive years of sales to these groups of computer buyers. Could this be the start of Apple taking the global business-based market that for so long has remained solely dominated by Microsoft?

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Google Analytics now tracks users in real-time

, Sep 29th 2011 Discuss [1]

Today the folks at Google's Analytics lab revealed an upcoming service where users visiting websites tracked with the service would be counted in real-time. This isn't the first time such a service has been offered by an analytical group, but because it's being integrated into one of the most-used services for such tracking in the world, Google Analytics, this becomes a rather significant happening. Google calls this new service "Google Analytics Real-Time" and will be turning it on for users in waves over the next few weeks - can't wait! Read The Full Story

I Trust the Cloud – Do You?

, Jun 1st 2011 Discuss [5]

In my predictions column prior to 2011, I predicted the rise of the personal cloud. With Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple all getting into the cloud business its clear that prediction is coming true. Three things are key to adopting these cloud services: Trust, reliability and price.

I for one am ready to begin relying more on cloud services. I remember a time before my company began using Exchange for email. Every time I got a new computer or new handheld PDA, I had to manually export my inbox and then import it on the new device.


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