Internetspeedsandprice.jpg (JPEG Image, 1323x1486 pixels) Data Overtakes Voice in Cellphone Use | Gadget Lab. 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.
Add to that email, the multitasking nature of SMS and instant-messaging, and the other non-voice-based communications available on our phones today and its easy to see why people prefer to keep their mouths shut. People see voice as intrusive and as a waste of time, says an article in the New York Times, saving it for a last resort. Think about how annoying it seems to fax people instead of emailing them and you get the idea. Cellphones aren’t even designed for calling anymore: gone are the days of seeing a grandmother on the bus reading numbers from a piece of paper and dialing them in on a number-pad. This is no surprise to me. This tumbling of voice on the cellphone networks is why the telcos are pushing so hard on selling data plans. Wired News.
TechCrunch. Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7" Display, U.S. Wireless): How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write. Observatoire du haut et très haut débit sur réseaux fixes - marc. Téléchargez l'observatoire (pdf) Au 31 décembre 2013, le nombre d'abonnements internet à haut et très haut débit sur réseaux fixes atteint 24,9 millions, soit une croissance nette de 260 000 abonnements au cours du trimestre. Sur un an, l'accroissement net s'élève à 900 000 (+4%). Sur ce total, le nombre d'abonnements à haut débit est de 22,9 millions, soit une progression de 55 000 abonnements en un trimestre. Le nombre d'abonnements xDSL dont le débit est inférieur à 30 Mbits/s (22,5 millions à la fin du quatrième trimestre 2013) est en hausse de 45 000 sur le trimestre. Le nombre des autres abonnements haut débit (abonnements par le câble, en wifi, par le satellite ou la boucle locale radio), s'accroît de 10 000 en un trimestre, et s'élève à 405 000 à la fin de l'année 2013.
Le nombre d'abonnements à très haut débit est évalué à 2,1 million à la fin du quatrième trimestre 2013 (+200 000 en un trimestre), dont : 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 2, or even 20Mbps? If you still think your Internet access is slow, then quantum Internet may be right for you. And that is exactly what physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics are trying to create. The physicists have invented what they are calling a “quantum transistor.” What makes the quantum transistor so special is that it uses the properties of quantum physics in which particles can communicate across open space without ever touching. A similar quantum mechanical transistor, the Double Electron Layer Tunneling Transistor (DELTT), has been developed by the Sandia development team, a laboratory of the Department of Energy (DOE).
You can see where this spooky physics could drastically improve the speed of Internet communication and computing. [Via IEEE] Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology. Thought-Control Headset Reads Your Mind | Gadget Lab. 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. It is also wireless, and charges via USB. The headset reads brain activity related to facial movements, and uses this to infer your emotional state and intentions. This is then translated in software to control various applications, from games to photo viewers to an on-screen keyboard.
And of course, any application or machine could be made to do anything with the input, from steering a wheelchair to, we guess, firing the weapons systems on a stolen, cold-war era Soviet fighter plane. There are three kits, and all flavors come with the same telepathic hat. What is most striking, once you get over the idea of a thought-controlled computer, is just how cool the EPOC looks. EPOC Product page [Emotiv] New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement « The Metric System. [To keep up with our latest research and updates, follow us on Twitter @RJMetrics] 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. Updating this analysis in RJMetrics was just a matter of a few clicks, and we could easily highlight the most interesting tidbits of new information.
If you’d like that level of control of your own business’s data, you should try out our demo to learn more. Today, I’m starting with an update of the basics: users and engagement. Results Summary We analyzed data through the end of 2009. How We Did It (Again) We are not associated with Twitter in any way and have no direct access to their backend data. Conclusion. Exploring the Use of Twitter Around the World. 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). In doing our research, we discovered that almost no one is using the geo-location API tool that Twitter launched last August, with only 0.23% of all Tweets tagged with geo-location. Meanwhile, the number of U.S. unique users was 50.8%, a sharp drop from 62.1% in June. Mobytics - web statistics on your mobile - about mobytics. The 5 Rings Of Conversion Optimization. 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. The extended web solar system There are five rings of your web presence under your direct control: Core web: Online applicationsInner web: Your traditional, navigable web siteOuter web: Landing pages, blogs, micrositesSocial web: Outposts on social media sitesAdvertising networks: Paid media on other sites Picture this as a kind of solar system, with your inner web and core applications as the gravitational center: Of course, there’s much more about you out on the web—what others say, organic search results, affiliate initiatives, etc.
The core web: Applications with general appeal The inner web: A stable, global reference There are two exceptions.