Feb
06
The world is going mobile. Mobile electronic devices are more prevalent than ever, and between tablets, smartphones, glorified MP3 players and netbooks, the market is still growing: almost a million people become smartphone users every day, and about 44 percent of American homes have a tablet. Reaching this inherently on-the-go market effectively poses some challenges, [...]
Jan
17
Mobile majority. Yep, that’s right. In 2013 for the first time ever mobile devices will serve up the majority of content consumed online. In many areas of the world they will only have one way to access the Internet, their smartphone. Adding to the likelihood of mobile majority is simultaneous screening, the 2013 multi-tasking. In [...]
Nov
30
Friday, Nov. 30 from 3-4 p.m. EST Get excited, everyone! It’s time for another tweet chat! We are now on our SIXTH #DigitalChat – and we’ve had some fantastic ones on everything from Pinterest for business, to event marketing on Twitter, and even TEDxDetroit. The #DigitalChat is turning into one of our favorite monthly events, [...]
Mar
05
If there was doubt that we are on the cusp of a mobile revolution, then the latest results from the Pew Internet and American Life Project will put that doubt to rest. Of American cellphone owners 53% of them own a smartphone. Of all Americans 46% of them own a smartphone. That number represents a [...]
Feb
17
Google is releasing data about searches done on Valentine’s Day. Because of the nature of the holiday we should expect it to be a heavy day for local searches (mainly for restaurants and for products that can be bought immediately). Google’s data supports the expectations, with some surprises. Of all the searches for national restaurants [...]
Oct
11
Facebook has been available on mobile devices, but there were always some functions that did not work correctly on those mobile devices. On Tuesday Facebook released the Facebook Platform on Mobile that will allow apps and mobile browsers to fully use Facebook apps. This will be lucrative for Facebook as they prepare for [...]
May
04
Maybe the airline traveler does not constitute a large portion of DVD sales, but even if true, DVD sales will take a hit with American Airlines’ newest announcement. Beginning this summer American Airlines will have all of its airlines wi-fi enabled and allow movie rentals to passengers on their own mobile devices. This is great [...]
Feb
10
The Wholesale Applications Community just announced ten more partners and the imminent launch of its commercial venture. WAC is a network of telecommunications firms and other interested parties trying to develop a process for mobile application developers. This process will allow developers to build products able to work on all mobile platforms. At next week’s [...]
Feb
02
Despite economic hardships, there is more data advertising budgets are increasing their shares for social networking worldwide. Unsurprisingly, Facebook drives most of this growth. This year, 10.8% of online advertising will go towards social networking sites, and that number is expected to top 12% in 2012. Marketing outside the US will drive most of this [...]
Sep
27
Facebook keeps insisting that it is not building a phone, however, it does seem they are helping develop two phones that will integrate more sophisticated interfaces with the FB platform then currently exist. The future Facebook phones are likely to be carried on the AT&T network and will run on the Android OS. “Facebook-friendlier smartphones [...]