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U.S. Smartphone Audience Growth by Age Segment – September 26, 2011Posted in: Mobile, U.S. The U.S. smartphone audience reached 82.2 million people in the three-month period ending July 2011, up 54 percent from the previous year. Those age 25-34 accounted for the largest segment of the total smartphone audience at 22.3 million users (up 47% from the previous year), followed by those age 35-44 accounting for 17.5 million smartphone subscribers (up 36%). Although representing a small audience base, those in the 55-64 and 65+ age groups experienced the strongest growth in terms of percentage increase. Smartphone owners age 55-64 grew 86% to 6.5 million users in July 2011, while those age 65+ accounted for 4.4 million smartphone users, up 127% from the previous year.
With Apps, First Impressions Are King. Here's 3 Keys to Getting Them Right Everyone on the web (read: that tiny subclass of "everyone" that gets paid to care about social networking apps) was shooting their mouth off last week about the latest'n'greatest app on the block, a $41-million funded doohickey called "Color." The brainchild of Bill Nguyen (a tech entrepreneur so adept at playing venture-capital roulette that he's successfully launched eight previous startups), Color lets you snap photos and share them in an "elastic social network" with people geographically close to you, with no checking-in necessary. I avoid Color like the plague and use Stellar daily. Why? If that raises an obvious question to you -- namely, "why the $*#@ would I want to do that in the first place?"
Comparing US states with countries: US equivalents Which countries match the GDP and population of America's states? IT HAS long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies of the world. These days, it would rank eighth, falling between Italy and Brazil on a nominal exchange-rate basis. But how do other American states compare with other countries? iPhone 5: Implications for the Operator Industry Speaker: comScore, Inc. Event: comScore Whitepaper Download Whitepaper What does the release of the next generation of iPhones mean for the U.S. mobile industry? HTML5 Is Breathing New Life Into the Web How’s that? Isn’t the Web already the crucial utility of online commerce, information and entertainment? In many ways, it certainly is. The Web’s importance is indisputable — but there are signs that it is slipping.
Revolutions around the World, a data visualization ? mkaz tumbles along The recent events in Tunisia and Egypt got me thinking about revolutions across history. They tend to cluster together both in geography and time. So being on the current data visualization kick I’m on, it sounded like a fun little project. You can view the results here: The data was collected from Wikipedia, in particular their List of Revolutions.
Mobile: It’s Not Too Late To Be Early Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Jason Spero, the head of mobile ads for the Americas at Google. Spero joined Google in May 2010 as part of the acquisition of AdMob where he was vice president and general manager of North America responsible for strategy and operations. Mobile is finally delivering on its promise. Interactive: National carbon calculator - can you cut UK emissions? Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta About us Today's paper Generation App: 62% of Mobile Users 25-34 own Smartphones Nielsen’s third quarter survey of mobile users reveals that while only 43 percent of all US mobile phone subscribers own a smartphone, a mobile phone with a powerful operating system, the vast majority of those under the age of 44 now have smartphones. In fact, 62 percent of mobile adults aged 25-34 report owning smartphones. And among those 18-24 and 35-44 years old the smartphone penetration rate is hovering near 54 percent. Other groups show slightly lower penetration rates. Around 40 percent of 12-17 year-old teens and 40 percent of 45-54 year-olds reported owning a smartphone, as opposed to a more basic feature phone. After younger adults, the segment with the second fastest-growing smartphone penetration rate is those aged 55-64.
HTML5 Mobile Apps I saw two HTML5 apps yesterday. One running in my Android browser. The other running in the iPad browser. They looked and worked exactly like their mobile app counterparts. Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements See the data: bit.ly/snakeoilsupps. See the static versionSee the old flash version Check the evidence for so-called Superfoods visualized. Note: You might see multiple bubbles for certain supplements. Americans and Text Messaging Young adults are the heaviest users of text messaging, sending or receiving an average of 87.7 text messages on a normal day. Young adults stand far above all other demographic groups when it comes to their usage of text messaging. Fully 95% of 18-29 year olds say they use the text messaging feature on their phones, and these users send or receive an average of 87.7 text messages on a normal day.
Introducing Your New Mobile Supercomputer What's the Big Idea? Computer storage and software are already migrating to the cloud, and soon processing power will go virtual as well, making our mobile devices as powerful as supercomputers. What's the Breakthrough? Much of your computing already takes place on the cloud, and you may not even realize it. Widely used cloud services like Google Apps, Grooveshark, and online banking are just the beginning of our full immersion into the cloud. Daniel Burrus, CEO and founder of business and tech consultancy Burrus Research, says that computer processing power will soon join the cloud, revolutionizing the way we compute and access the internet.
Americans and Their Cell Phones Mobile phones have become a near-ubiquitous tool for information-seeking and communicating: 83% of American adults own some kind of cell phone. These devices have an impact on many aspects of their owners’ daily lives. In a telephone survey conducted from April 26 to May 22, 2011 among a nationally-representative sample of Americans, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that, during the 30 days preceding the interview: Cell phones are useful for quick information retrieval (so much so that their absence can cause problems) – Half of all adult cell owners (51%) had used their phone at least once to get information they needed right away.