YouMail axes BlackBerry app support after 'steady exodus' - Apr. 17. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Here's a sign of just how far BlackBerry's star has fallen: The maker of one popular app is pulling the plug, citing a "steady exodus" of users gravitating instead to Android and the iPhone.
Visual voicemail company YouMail is ending development on its BlackBerry app. YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in a blog post that the decision was "bittersweet," because BlackBerry "got us our first million registered users and put us on the map as a company. " YouMail's app is currently among the top-10 most popular apps in the "productivity" category of BlackBerry's App World store. But Quilici says the customer base has collapsed. As he wrote on YouMail's blog: "On many days we're now getting fewer BB users than Windows Phone 7 users, and we don't even have a Windows Phone 7 app!
" "When we began to see that trend, it definitely made us think," Quilici told CNNMoney. "Our company is only 10 people in total, and they're all development or customer support," Quilici said. Why one in five U.S. adults don't use the Internet. Just over 20% of non-Internet-users say they know enough about technology to start going online if they wanted to.
Almost 48% say they don't go online because they don't think the Internet is relevant to them Nearly 60% of U.S. adults who never completed high school don't use the internetHaving broadband Internet access is the best way to get the most use out of the webA common reason why people shy away is they think it's a waste of time Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- Even though the Internet has become a key tool for accessing services, getting an education, finding jobs, getting the news, keeping up with people you know and much more, one in five U.S. adults still does not use the Internet at all, according to a new Pew report.
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By strategically leveraging enthusiasts, The Hunger Games has brought its alternate universe to life through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. For those who haven't been bitten by the Hunger Games bug (yet), it's a trilogy written by Susan Collins that takes place in a dystopian future after the destruction of North America. Every year, the oppressive government holds the Hunger Games which forces each district in the nation (now called Panem) to pick one teenage male and female (tributes) to participate in a fight to the death.
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