Nearly half (47%) of US adults access local news and information via mobile phones or tablet devices finds a new survey. The latest report “How mobile devices are changing community information environments” published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project looks at the way US adults are using mobile and follows up a report…
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Mobile browsers still not ready for HTML5
Netbiscuits latest report demonstrates that unfortunately HTML5 is far from being the answer to all the questions facing mobile web application developers today. Cross-platform development business Netbiscuits has published a new edition of their free “Mobile Web Metrics Report”. The document provides up-to-date information on the HTML5 capabilities of top devices in the USA, the…
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One in three UK and US consumers are accessing the Internet on mobile at least once a week
A new mobile internet attitudes report shows mobile internet adoption is on the rise an the UK users are more enthusiastic in their use of the mobile internet than US users. The second annual 2011 Mobile Internet Attitudes Report from Antenna Software conducted by YouGov measured the attitudes, preferences and behaviours of adult consumers in…
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Nearly half of active mobile users want to pay via mobile
More and more users worldwide are expressing a desire to pay for goods on their mobile and are willing to ignore their concerns over security. China leads the way with almost one in two having bought something via mobile in the last six months. New research by Accenture shows that nearly half (45%) of the…
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Nations divided by a common mobile
In the Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. We know there are language differences and cultural differences, but are there differences in the way we use mobiles? And how do we differ in our usage from Japan and other parts of Europe? Handily…
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Email is still the dominant activity for US mobile users
US consumers are still loyal to email on their phones despite the rise of social networking, and in fact email use actually increased rather than decreased over the last year. The research comes from a survey, entitled What Americans Do Online, and compares and contrasts PC and mobile behaviour, and the way US consumers spend…