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Mientras nosotros nos debatimos si es iOS o Android la plataforma más usada , si Symbian debe morir o si BlackBerry quiere pero no puede , y hablamos a diario del rampante mercado de las aplicaciones móviles ...parece ser que de los usuarios adultos de smartphones en Estados Unidos, sólo el 35% tiene apps en sus teléfonos, y de estos sólo el 24% de hecho las usa, y un 11% de los norteamericanos adultos ni siquiera sabe si su teléfono puede ejecutar apps . Esto es lo que revela el más reciente estudio sobre uso de móviles del Pew Internet & American Life Project publicado hoy. ¿Para qué un smartphone si no van a usar aplicaciones? me pregunto yo.
Estudio: Aplicaciones móviles
WEF: Global Competitiveness Report 2010
The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 Under the theme “Reducing Barriers to Economic Growth and Job Creation”, The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 assesses 140 economies worldwide based on the extent to which they are putting in place the factors and policies to make it attractive to develop the travel and tourism sector.
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Susan Montoya Bryan , The Associated Press – 12 hrs. End of the line for Roadrunner supercomputerSocial networking use among internet users ages 50 and older has nearly doubled—from 22% to 42%—over the past year Status updating has also grown in popularity among older users; one in ten say they use Twitter or another service to share updates or see updates about others WASHINGTON, DC - While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010. Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88%--from 25% to 47%. During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%--from 13% to 26%.
Older Adults & Social Media |
Los resultados del “Faculty Survey of Student Engagement” (2009) no son muy halagadores en relación al uso de la tecnología por los docentes.
Uso de la tecnología de parte de los docentes
Employers confirm: e-learning integral for employee training
Employers confirm: e-learning integral for employee training Employers Australia-wide have confirmed that e-learning is now entrenched as a tool for employee training, according to the 2010 Employer E-learning Benchmarking Survey Draft Report released today. The survey, conducted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework ( Framework ), found that half (50%) of all Australian businesses are now using e-learning to provide flexible, timely and efficient employee training (up from 40% in 2009). It also found that employers’ awareness, knowledge and use of e-learning is steadily increasing:
May 27, 2010 By: Mary Bart in EdTech News and Trends
College Students Unplugged: 24 Hours without Media Brings Feelings of Boredom, Isolation, Anxiety
As technology becomes more a part of our day-to-day lives, some are worried that it is stunting the education of children by taking away time from activities like reading. A startling discovery from the London-based National Literacy Trust finds that children are more likely these days to own a cell phone than they are a book. The study, which NLT will publish next week, ties cell phone penetration to the presence of books in a child's home, but are these conclusions fair to draw?
Kids More Likely to Own a Cellphone Than a Book, Study Finds
La interacción en línea tiene efectos positivos en la vida real
Fotografía de Adam Borkowski. PhotoXpress. Mientras tantos critican los efectos de los medios sociales y de la Internet en general en la sociedad de hoy, argumentando que solo se pierde el tiempo y que ya no hay contacto físico, existen otros que estudian la parte positiva de esta poderosa tendencia que ha cambiado la forma de vivir de millones de personas en el mundo. Es el caso de Caroline Haythornthwaite y Lori Kendall, profesoras del Graduate School of Library and Information Science, quienes realizaron una investigación acerca de las interacciones en línea que fue publicada en la edición de abril de 2010 de American Behavioral Science. Las autoras del estudio revelaron que, contrario a lo que los críticos de la Internet suelen argumentar, la interacción en línea a través de la gran red y de los crecientemente poderosos medios sociales como Facebook y Twitter tiene efectos positivos en las comunidades de la vida real.
In Mobile, Women Rule Social Networking
Based on data collected and analyzed using Google Ad Planner , I recently discovered that in Social Media, women rule . Across almost every major social network, the balance was revealing and in some cases, profound. Facebook: Male: 43% Female: 57%Twitter Usage In America: 2010 is a new report derived from the Edison Research/Arbitron Internet and Multimedia Series. This study presents three years of tracking data from a nationally representative telephone survey (via landline and mobile phone) of 1,753 Americans, and was conducted in February 2010. This report details new data on the awareness and usage of Twitter, along with user demographics, status updating behaviors, brand following activity and even an early look at location-based social networking. The study was originally presented on Thursday, April 29th, in an online presentation. Highlights of the study include:
Twitter Usage In America: 2010
Posted in Tech blog on February 16th, 2010 by Pingdom UPDATE: There is a more recent post available, Social network demographics in 2012 . How old is the average Twitter or Facebook user? What about all the other social network sites, like MySpace, LinkedIn, and so on? How is age distributed across the millions and millions of social network users out there?