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The new cellphone killer app is data. Spring Nextel boss Dan Hesse says that voice-use has dropped to less than half of cellphone network traffic. According to the CTIA, the number text message sent last year was up 50% on the year before.
Data Overtakes Voice in Cellphone Use | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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Isn’t it delightful how geek culture works? During my Christmas shopping last year, I stumbled into a favorite little pop culture shop in Little Collins Street in Melbourne which is well known for its comprehensive stocking of all things Lovecraftian. I was looking for some stocking fillers for the kids; instead I walked out with [...] The combination of a cloud service and verification that does not involve sharing data has allowed one company to provide a true bumper-to-bumper insurance policy, reports Victor Cruz. One legacy of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has arrived on the southern border of the United States.
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SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like:
Kindle DX's large display is ideal for a broad range of reading material, including graphic-rich books, PDFs, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Kindle DX's display is two and a half times the size of the Kindle Keyboard display. Whether you're reading the latest best seller or a financial report, text and images are amazingly sharp on the 9.7" screen.
Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7" Display, U.S. Wireless):
Every genuinely revolutionary technology implants some kind of "aha" moment in your memory -- the moment where you flip a switch and something magical happens, something that tells you in an instant that the rules have changed forever. I still have vivid memories of many such moments: clicking on my first Web hyperlink in 1994 and instantly transporting to a page hosted on a server in Australia; using Google Earth to zoom in from space directly to the satellite image of my house; watching my 14-month-old master the page-flipping gesture on the iPhone's touch interface. The latest such moment came courtesy of the Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.'s AMZN +2.30% e-book reader.
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
Au 31 décembre 2011, le nombre d'abonnements internet à haut et très haut débit sur réseaux fixes atteint 22,8 millions, soit une croissance nette de 380 000 abonnements (les ventes brutes étant de 1,175 million) en un trimestre. Sur un an, l'accroissement net s'élève à 1,4 million (+7%). 22,1 millions de ces abonnements sont des abonnements haut débit (+310 000 en un trimestre). Parmi eux, les abonnements xDSL (21 millions à la fin 2011) ont augmenté de 290 000 en un trimestre. Le nombre des autres abonnements haut débit, tels que les abonnements par le câble, les abonnements en wifi, par le satellite ou la boucle locale radio (BLR), croît de 20 000 sur le trimestre et s'élève à 1,1 million à la fin 2011.
Observatoire du haut et très haut débit sur réseaux fixes - marc
Quantum Internet May Become a Reality - PCWorld
Do you think you have slow Internet access with DSL, cable, broadband, or satellite? Do you have internet speeds of 3, 6, 1 Artwork: Chip Taylor 2, or even 20Mbps?Back in 1982, Clint Eastwood flew Firefox, an airplane that had thought-controlled weapons. That was a movie (based on a pretty good book ), and the plane cost millions of dollars. Now, for real, you can control a computer with your thoughts and feelings for just $300. The Emotiv EPOC headset is being marketed as both a gaming device and as an aid for the disabled. It has 14 EEG electrodes to monitor brain activity, a gyroscope so it knows where you noggin is in space and packs a li-ion battery for 12 hours of use.
Thought-Control Headset Reads Your Mind | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement « The Metric System
Since my guest post on TechCrunch last fall, I’ve received frequent requests to update and expand upon my Twitter data analysis . As the Twitter API continues to improve, our ability to profile the company from the outside-looking-in becomes even stronger. I recently conducted an updated round of analysis and will be posting my findings in a series of posts here at The Metric System in the coming weeks.
In our initial Twitter report published last June, one of the areas that looked at were the countries and cities where Twitter was being used. Not surprisingly, nearly two-thirds of unique users (62.1%) were located in the U.S., while the U.K. and Canada were a distant second and third. Given how Twitter has much grown over the past six months, we wanted to take a fresh look at global usage to see if there were any major changes. To gather this insight, we looked at our entire twitter repository between mid-October to mid-December, 2009. We aimed to understand twitting activity both in terms of the country/city of origin of each twitter but also in terms of overall twitting activity (how frequently they tweet).
Exploring the Use of Twitter Around the World
Conversion optimization is bigger than your web site. From blogs and landing pages, to official outlets on social media sites, marketers now manage a large extended web that thrives beyond the borders of the traditional web site. Great conversion optimization must leverage the dynamics of each layer—and coordinate the interaction between them. Of course, there’s much more about you out on the web—what others say, organic search results, affiliate initiatives, etc.