Baby boomers represent the largest generation driving rapid growth in data demand.
No matter what generation we are we usually see young adults, who are tethered to their mobile device for texting, gaming and surfing the web, as the drivers of our new data-driven world. But surprisingly, baby boomers — aged 46 to 64 — represent possibly the largest generation driving rapid growth in data demand.
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The demand for coding knowledge is massive.
Could you be sitting on the app concept of the century, but you don’t know the programming basics to create it. Now, thanks to coding courses offered by companies such as DaVinci Coders and Codecademy, people are launching new businesses by taking coding matters into their own hands.
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The “Free CGC” ad went viral on the Chinese Internet.
Chinese social media has become a prominent source keeping people updated about what’s happening in China with over 400 million Weibo (China;s twitter) users.. Here are China’s 10 most memorable Internet memes of 2012. They cover scandal, celebrity, humour and buzzwords.
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The stats in this chart show how the numbers stack up against each other.
Television viewing and web browsing dropped while time spent using mobile apps rose about 35 percent this year, according to a new report on U.S. trends by mobile analytics firm Flurry.
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Top 18 fastest growing cities are in China.
The top 50 fastest-growing cities, by GDP per capita, are practically all in the developing Asian world. The top 18 are in China. The rest are in China, Indonesia (Jakarta), India (Chennai), and Australia (Perth).
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Black Friday still reigns supreme on mobile devices.
When it comes to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it looks like Black Friday still reigns supreme on mobile devices. According to data compiled by the mobile data compression company Onavo, when it comes to increases in usage, mobile apps from Amazon, Newegg, and Gilt all saw significantly higher gains on Black Friday compared to Cyber Monday.
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According to this Gallup poll, 25 percent of Americans are still “seriously trying to lose weight.”
A recent Gallup poll asked Americans about their dieting habits and what they consider an ideal weight. Sixty percent of Americans say that their weight is about right. This is good news considering research like that of Peter Muennig from Columbia University found that women who were concerned about their weight had more mental and physical illnesses than those who were happy with their size, regardless of their weight. As it turns out, people don’t take care of things they hate, and that includes their bodies. So more people liking their bodies means more people who believe those bodies are worthy of care.
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According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit Total, consumer debt in the U.S. fell again in the third quarter. This figure has been falling for four years. As consumer debt has been falling, so have consumers’ delinquency rates. As of Sept. 30, 8.9 percent of outstanding household debt was in some stage of delinquency, with 6.6 percent at least 90 days late.
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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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Everyone spends their time discussing the work they should be doing rather than actually doing it.
It seems like almost everyone is social today. Every minute, Twitter users average 100,000 tweets, Facebook users post 684,478 pieces of content, Tumblr blog owners publish 27,778 new posts and Flickr users add 3,125 new photos. Facebook and Twitter are great tools for connecting and communicating with people in our social lives, or for brands communicating with customers, the real value of pure-play social tools as standalone applications within a business has yet to be proven.
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The iPad is the number one product people want in the next year.
According to the latest data from Nielsen, Apple is going to dominate holiday shopping in the U.S., once again. (Chart)
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People are shifting from the TV screen to smaller tablet screens for streaming video.
There has been a dramatic increase over the last six months in the amount of streaming video content veiwed on tablet devices, according to a report released by Ooyala’s Q3 Global Video Index. (Infographic)
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