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Texting While Parenting: What Effect Can It Have On Your Children? In a Relationship: College Students and Their Smartphones [INFOGRAPHIC] College students aren't just concerned with getting good grades and finding the best parties.

More than ever, they're using their smartphones to navigate life on campus. On the bus, waiting in line, in bed, on the treadmill and even while driving, college students can't seem to put their phones down. Fifty-two percent say they often check their phones before getting out of bed in the morning, according to one study. Nearly half do so while in bed at night before they fall asleep. Thirty-five percent say they sometimes use their phones while driving but stopped at a red light, and nearly 20% say they sometimes use them while the wheels are even moving. The Internet education portal OnlineColleges pulled this data and more from sources including the Pew Internet & American Life Project, University of Colorado and Nielsen to produce the infographic below. Teens Are Sending, Receiving 60 Texts a Day [STUDY] Teens are texting more than ever — and their thumb-crunching habits are showing no signs of slowing, according to a new study.

A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed that the amount of texts sent and receive each day among teenagers has jumped in the past few years, especially among boys, older teens and African-Americans. The study looked at the behavior of nearly 800 teens ages 12 to 17 during a three-part survey between April and July 2011 and a series of focus groups involving 57 people ages 12 to 19. Teens on average are sending and receiving 60 texts each day, up from 50 in 2009. The increase is being led by older teens ages 14-17, who went from a median of 60 texts a day to a whopping 100 two years later. Girls are still the most active texters, sending and receiving a median of 100 texts a day compared to boys sending 50. Of the entire group, 75% of teens said they actively text, and one in four say they own a smartphone. Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s Wireless Bandwidth. Top Trends of 2011: Content Shifting. We wind down the top trends of 2011 with one that's perfect for the holidays.

Just as the frantic, real-time nature of the social Web hit fever pitch, the market trends this year made way for "content shifting. " It's the simple idea of saving your articles, videos and podcasts for later. With the rise of the smartphone and tablet, all kinds of content can be saved until after work or school. Content shifting helps us concentrate on the tasks at hand. It also reformats it for more enjoyable experiences. The Rise of Leisure Devices Podcasting has been the content-shifted future of radio since the early days of the iPod. The tablet in particular has made leisure reading and viewing of Web content a reality. We've seen some great studies from Google and BBC.com this year showing that consumers love the tactile, personal tablet experience.

Google: Tablets Are For Fun, Laptops Are For Work [study] As part of its ongoing sponsored research into mobile computing habits, Google released some interesting findings about the way consumers use their different devices.

Google refers to the tablet as a "third digital screen in consumer's lives that fill[s] the gap between desktops and smartphones. " Its study found that people use tablets for personal rather than work-related activities 91% of the time. Google found that users quickly migrate entertainment activities over to their tablets when they get them. How Much Americans Spend on Electronics [INFOGRAPHIC] Think you've got bad gadget spending habits?

If you're a single male between the ages of 50 and 65 living in San Jose, Calif. your tech splurges might be par for the course, according to research by Bundle.com. By aggregating anonymous data from the U.S. government, banks and other third-parties, Bundle has broken down Americans' gadget spending by city, age, household type and income level. While some of the findings are expected (monthly tech spending increases as the household gets larger), some are less so. For example, Madison, Wis. beats Seattle, Wash. in monthly spending, and 50 to 65-year-olds outspend their younger counterparts, on average. Vive le mobile: French smartphone love affair rolls on.

More evidence, if it were needed, that Europe is increasingly becoming a mobile-centric culture, with figures showing that France’s smartphone market has grown 34 percent in the last year. The numbers from audience analytics firm Médiamétrie suggest that the French mobile internet now counts 18.3 million users — around half of the overall number of internet users in the country, but growing rapidly. According to the “smartphone generation” study, 40 percent of mobile users there are now using high end handsets, and Android is gaining fast against other systems.

The report comes hot on the heels of figures from Gartner that suggest the last quarter saw PC sales in Western Europe drop by 11.4 percent over the same time last year. And that’s including the business market: things were even worse in the consumer market, where sales were down more than 18 percent.