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This is a primer on mobile social media, including statistics, how people are using it, why people use it, and the future of mobile social media. While specific technologies and stats will change with This is a primer on mobile social media, including statistics, how people are using it, why people use it, and the future of mobile social media. While specific technologies and stats will change with any given month, the trends should prove to be more enduring. More...

Why Mobile Social Media Matters - Statistics, Trends, Technologies

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More than B2C, Business Users also do Mobile « The Future of Mobile and Mobile Marketing

http://txt4ever.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/more-than-b2c-business-users-also-do-mobile/ Recent news from Linked in, shows massive mobile growth in the business-orientated network. They now tell us that mobile page views are up 400% year on year and that it is now 13% of the total unique visits.

Internet Service Provider Survey: 2011 - Statistics New Zealand

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) continued to be the most popular broadband connection type, with over 1 million subscribers at 30 June 2011. However, the proportion of broadband subscribers with DSL has declined each year since 2009, while alternative connection types such as cellular, cable, and satellite continue to increase from year to year. Although fibre optic connections remain the least common connection type, the number of subscribers increased by over 40 percent in the year ended June 2011. Consumers choosing plans with larger data allowance http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/information_technology_and_communications/ISPSurvey_HOTPJun11/Commentary.aspx#mobile
What happened to the phone booth? When you had to talk to someone to tell them something while you were out you used the phone booth. Now social media sites help people connect and communicate.

Social Media Mobilized…. Is 80% of Twitter Use from Mobile Devices?

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Social Networking On-The-Go: U.S. Mobile Social Media Audience Grows 37 Percent in the Past Year - comScore, Inc

RESTON, VA, October 20, 2011 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results of a study on mobile social media usage based on data from its comScore MobiLens service, which showed that 72.2 million Americans accessed social networking sites or blogs on their mobile device in August 2011, an increase of 37 percent in the past year. The study also provided new insights into how mobile users interact with social media, finding that more than half read a post from an organization, brand or event while on their mobile device. “Social media is one of the most popular and fastest growing mobile activities, reaching nearly one third of all U.S. mobile users,” said Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president for mobile.
Innovations in technology and the spread of social networking have provided buyers with new tools for discovering, comparing, evaluating, choosing and experiencing brands, reveals a new IBM study. A new global IBM study of mid-market chief marketing officers (CMOs) has revealed that though building and sustaining brand loyalty is the top concern for today's mid-market CMOs, yet 72 per cent do not feel sufficiently prepared to effectively build this loyalty. Additionally, 70 per cent of mid-market CMOs are concerned about data explosion, as they are tasked with making sense of highly complex information generated constantly from a variety of sources such as consumer blogs, tweets, mobile texts and videos. The proliferation of social media and mobile devices is creating a new breed of consumers who are digitally savvy and able to quickly compare and evaluate which products and services they want to buy. http://www.domain-b.com/brand_dossier/adv_brnd/20111119_mobile_devices.html

Social media, mobile devices creating brand loyalty challenges for mid-size businesses

In a dense, 87-page report, Morgan Stanley analysts have charted the most important online trends and predicted the future of the Internet. In addition to forecasting more online shopping and showing the geographical distribution of Internet users, the study also shows a dramatic shift toward mobile web use. Including devices such as the Kindle , the iPhone ( ) and other smartphones, web-enabled tablets, GPS systems, video games and wireless home appliances, the growth of the mobile web has been exponential — and we’re still just at the beginning of this cycle. http://billcrosby.posterous.com/new-study-shows-the-mobile-web-will-rule-by-2-5

New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015 [STATS] - Viral

5 Best Social Networking Mobile Apps for iPad

http://www.thegeeksclub.com/5-great-social-networking-mobile-apps-ipad In today’s life, Communication modes have become easier and cheaper. With newer technologies surfacing as a mentor, its leading to user’s lives amendable. The Mobile Applications are providing any type of information which user’s wants to within the quickest time.
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11 Essential Tools for the Tech-Savvy Traveler

The Trendsetter Tech Series is supported by smart. Test drive the space saving, eco-friendly, totally unique, smart. Visit smartusa.com to find a new smart center near you. smart — unbig. uncar. The holiday season is upon us, and that means one thing: traveling. Whether you’re hastily coordinating the logistics to actually get to grandma’s house or frantically securing those last minute business deals on the other side of the country before 2012, finding the right flight, hotel and rental car is no joke.
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44 Useful Mobile Apps for Social Media Marketers | Social Media Examiner

Are you spending more time each day using your smartphone or iPad? Looking for some cool apps to simplify your work and life ? According to a recent study by Flurry , consumers spent 81 minutes per day using mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes of web surfing. Here’s where it gets even more interesting.
Ken Yarmosh is the proprietor of a boutique mobile agency based in the Washington, D.C. area and the author of App Savvy (O’Reilly). Mobile is only getting bigger. Thousands of new apps are hitting app stores every day.

5 Musts for Mobile App Marketing

ComScore: Mobile social media audience grows 37% - FierceMobileContent

"This behavior is even more prevalent among smartphone owners with three in five accessing social media each month, highlighting the importance of apps and the enhanced functionality of smartphones to social media usage on mobile devices," said Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president for mobile. The largest increase in growth was the number of users who accessed social networking sites from a mobile application, a 126 percent change from this time last year. Users accessing social networking sites via a mobile browser also increased from 34,192 to 42,251, a 24 percent increase.