Gartner: Mobile Touchscreen Sales Will Double in 2010
3 years 11 weeks ago
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Touchscreen shipments will double this year, according to Gartner. The analyst firm predicts that 362.7 million mobile touchscreen devices will ship in 2010, a 96.8 percent increase over 2009’s 184.3 million...
Study: Consumers Not Ready for Wallet Phones
3 years 13 weeks ago
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U.S. consumers are not ready for wallet phones, a study by Kansas State University marketing professor Esther Swilley concludes. Survey respondents said they were hesitant to put sensitive financial...
Is Cybersecurity a Civic Duty?
3 years 16 weeks ago
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The recent attacks on Google have brought increased attention to cybersecurity. Now a new report (PDF) from political scientists at the University of Cincinnati says that defense is ultimately in our hands as...
2009's Top Twitter Trends Shows Social Networking's Activist Side
3 years 23 weeks ago
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Experian Hitwise reported today that the number one search term for 2009 was Facebook. That’s really no big surprise, as 5 percent of total internet time is spent on the social networking site. What is...
Business & Finance, Networks & Telecoms
Juniper: NFC Payments to Reach $110B in 2014
3 years 27 weeks ago
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It’s curious that Near Field Communications (NFC) payments, so popular in Japan, have not taken off in regions outside of Asia. Sure, the mobile ecosystem in Japan is more mature and complex than in other...
Legatum Institute: Despite Recession, US Still No. 1 in Innovation
3 years 30 weeks ago
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We’ve seen entire industries fall during this recession, and even a sector as apparently insulated as technology took a good hit. So is the U.S. still the top place for innovation? Yes it is, according to...
US Tech Exports Down More Than 20 Percent
3 years 31 weeks ago
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U.S. high-tech exports declined by more than 20 percent in the first half of 2009, after having seen only one percent growth in 2008. High tech, which accounts for 17 percent of all U.S. exports, fell by 22...
Does Internet Abandonment Cause Anxiety?
3 years 32 weeks ago
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Last night I was watching the Dolphins beat the Jets at a sports bar across the street from the Moscone Center, a part of San Francisco totally overrun at the moment by the Oracle Open World convention, an...
Innovation & Research, Business & Finance
Cleantech Funding on the Rise, Leads Tech Sectors
3 years 34 weeks ago
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Cleantech investments continue to rebound, rising 10 percent in Q3 2009 over the previous quarter. While the continued recovery is a good sign, cleantech investments are still down 42 percent year-over-year...
Accessible Apple Shaping Casual Gaming Industry
3 years 34 weeks ago
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It seemed to be a good week to be a gamer. This week Nintendo announced its first US price cut for the Wii, readying them for Holiday Season competition. The other black belt game consoles, Sony's...
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