HITS Algorithm - Hubs and Authorities on the Internet. In the same time that PageRank was being developed, Jon Kleinberg a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell came up with his own solution to the Web Search problem.
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Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Soared in Fourth Quarter of 2011 With 47 Percent Growth. Egham, UK, February 15, 2012 View All Press Releases Apple Became Top Smartphone Vendor in Fourth Quarter of 2011 and in 2011 as a Whole Worldwide smartphone sales to end users soared to 149 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 47.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc.
Total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and accounted for 31 percent of all mobile devices sales, up 58 percent from 2010. Smartphone volumes during the quarter rose due to record sales of Apple iPhones. As a result, Apple became the third-largest mobile phone vendor in the world, overtaking LG. The quarter saw Samsung and Apple cement their positions further at the top of the market as their brands and new products clearly stood out. Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 476.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 5.4 percent increase from the same period in 2010 (see Table 1). Source: Gartner (February 2012) Smartphone Final Numbers 2011 - All the stats including Q4 by handset brands, operating systems and installed bases. Time to do the final count for 2011 smartphone numbers.
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According to humanist psychologist Abraham Maslow, our actions are motivated in order achieve certain needs. Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" and his subsequent book Motivation and Personality. Smartphone market grows by over 40 percent, Samsung doubles share to take the global lead. Smartphone sales and statistics. By Mark Brownlow, October 2012 (first published June 2010) inShare90 Jump to: Smartphone stats Recent sales stats (global): IDC say 153.9 million smartphones sold worldwide in Q2 2012.
Recent sales stats (US and Canada): Nielsen report that 54.9% of US mobile phone owners have a smartphone as of Q2 2012. comScore estimate that smartphone ownership in the US reached 110 million users by May 2012 (3-month average). Recent sales stats (UK and mainland Europe): IDC say 27.4 million smartphones sold in Western Europe in Q2 2012. Sales predictions: Facebook's US User Growth Rate Continues To Slow; Twitter Experiences Modest Gains. With Facebook expected to hit the one billion mark later on this year, not only could such a target fall later than expected but the rapid growth that the site has experienced in recent years could slow down exponentially over the next few years, if a new report from eMarketer is to be believed.
In a report released today, the analytics group found that, focusing on the site's user growth rate in the U.S., the company's growth rate percentage experienced a dramatic drop of 25.2 per cent between 2010 and 2011, falling from 38.6 per cent in 2010 down to 13.4 per cent by 2011. This year and the following two years are expected to continue this trend, the expected growth rate for 2012 is expected be more than halved (6.6 per cent) while for 2013, the figure will fall again to 3.9 per cent before stabilising for 2014 (3.6 per cent).
The main reason behind this prediction is that Facebook has already converted the vast majority of U.S users and already have them on their site. Twitter's Growth. Www.mojofat.com/resume/Mobile_Interactive_Design_Heuristics.pdf. Mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/prothwell/hci/papers/inspection methods-nielsen.pdf. Heuristic Evaluation Process. Heuristic evaluation is a quick method to evaluate any user interface (UI) by using a list of heuristics or guidelines.
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