Category: Mobile
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Tech Savvy Researcher Feature: Tencent – The Chinese Social Networking Giant
“Now victory may be produced for your army from the tactics used by the enemy.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War China, the Middle Kingdom. Home of Sun Tzu and his war strategies; Confucius and his many proverbs (he who stand on toilet, high on pot is not one of them). Long have we wondered…
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Introducing Shots of Me, the New Selfie-Sharing App Backed by Justin Bieber
Every so often, a cultural trend becomes a phenomenon. Malcolm Gladwell called it the tipping point. General nostalgia classically refers to it as the zeitgeist. And, alas, surely as Chuck Taylors compliment skinny jeans, sometimes these phenomena meet, the wake of which leaves us in a changed world. Enter Shots of Me, the spanking new…
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Smart Phones, Smart Teens – App Downloads Rising Along with Awareness of Privacy Concerns
I Kissed a Girl! That was easy. I just put together a few pictures and I have the answer to my latest trivia challenge on 4 Pics 1 Song, the number 1 downloaded free app in the App Store. The admirable runner up is Amateur Surgeon. Yes, it’s exactly like it sounds, and more –…
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Tech-Savvy Researcher Feature – Google’s New Chromecast is Bringing Mobile Home
Maybe I’m old school, but I’ve always been suspect of watching internet video on my phone. Doesn’t mean I don’t do it, but there’s always a latent uneasiness, like I’m selling myself short but there’s no other option. I still laugh at the dancing dog youtube video a friend texted, still well-up at the facebook…
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Tech-Savvy Researcher Feature – All Teens Online, One in Four Go Mobile-Only
It’s hard to forget the cacophonous bleeps, fuzz and buzz of our modem logging onto AOL in our pre-teen years. An exciting, confusing time when popular use of the internet was dawning, but so frustrating was that noisy wait to discover whether or not we had mail. There are few things we could hate so…
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Pheed Me: Teens, Innovation and Monetization Fuel Success of Latest Social Media App
Influence is a funny thing. One never can tell just who will sway them to try the latest shoe style, iphone case, or say, social media app. There is an easy answer of course: celebrities. Who doesn’t want to rock the same styles as their favorite pop artist or movie star. But the time may…
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The Tech-Savvy Shopper – Millennials using Smart Phones to find the Best Deals
It is Thanksgiving eve. I stand daydreaming in a long line at the grocery store, and am suddenly yanked from my pre-holiday reverie when I notice the person being checked out is playing with his phone. His phone! In line! Egregious. Inconsiderate. Unacceptably rude to hold up a line because you can’t put your phone…