Here is one more 2012 year-in review report from Nielsen, which examined how Americans have been consuming content over the course of the past year. Of the 289 million U.S. TV owners, the report found that 119 million own four or more television sets, making TV still the device to beat when it comes to watching and recording programs, among other things.
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2012 was a bad year to have other people say you want your bosses job
A lot has changed in 2012. More than you probably realize. Here is a list of thirteen things that you might have used or done in 2011 that you probably didn’t have to use or do in 2012.
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Xbox 720
Most people are pretty happy with the available gadgets on the market. Phones can do almost anything, cars nearly drive themselves and video games have never looked more fantastic.
How much better can it get?
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Apple iPods
They were launched over a decade ago and were the forefront of the digital revolution. But sales of iPods and other MP3 players in the UK slumped by more than a fifth in 2012 while consumers turned to smartphones as their gadget of choice.
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Google glasses
Google has been working on computerized glasses. The computerized glasses are called Google Glass, and developers can already buy them.
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Half of people check their phones immediately if they wake up during the night.
A new infographic by Online Psychology Degree shows the extent to which smartphones have basically become a new bodily appendage: (Infographic)
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Mobile health becoming more popular among smartphone owners.
Mobile health is starting to become popular in the U.S.. In 2010, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that just 17 percent of cell phone owners used their devices to look up health information. But the organization said that figure has climbed to 31 percent in a new study released last week.
Major online retailers are finding early success in the mobile shopping market, but don’t count out brick-and-mortar stores yet.
According to a new report from Nielsen, mobile commerce, with mobile shopping in particular, continues to skyrocket, but major brands continue to dominate the scene.
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According to Nielsen, smartphone adoption is highest among young consumers with more disposable income.
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The more we replace with our phones, the fewer consumer electronics we have to keep updated, and the less cluttered our lives can become.
We can easily get caught up in what’s new in smartphones, from novel applications of near field communication to their potential as detectors of environmental pollutants. But it’s also useful to occasionally look back on what they’ve granted us already. A recent survey in the UK found 4 in 10 smartphone users said their phone was “more important for accessing the Internet than any other device.”
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Apple overshadows other mobile phone companies where it counts the most: profits.
The Apple iPad rules the tablet market and the iPhone is a popular among smartphone users, even though a panoply of devices running Google’s Android owns the majority of the smartphone market. We also know Research in Motion is in serious decline, and Nokia is struggling to reverse its slide through Windows Phones — a strategy set back at least temporarily as customers wait for Windows Phone 8, given that current Nokia smartphones won’t run Microsoft’s first serious version of Windows Phone.
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Feature phones are not the future. Of course that verges on tautology; of course everyone will have a smartphone, until everyone has something smaller and better and even more integrated into the fabric of our lives, like Google Glasses or cybernetic jawbone/retinal implants or whatever Charles Stross dreams up next. But when, exactly?
Continue reading… “Most Africans will have smartphones within 5 years”
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