The Verge: Smartphones are taking over the world
March 29, 2012
Via an article on The Verge, according to a new report from Nielsen, as of February 2012, 49.7 of US mobile owners own a smartphone. Some statistics for you: 48% of owners say they own a Android OS device 32% own an iPhone 12% own a BlackBerry As for the new purchases: 48% bought an […]
By switching to iPads, Vancouver, Wa. has been able to save $336 per iPad used as well as decrease printing of paper to about 40% according to this Verge article. The city traded in some of the BlackBerry’s given out to employees for iPads to stop people from printing. They brought printing down from 5,371 […]
The Verge: Nobody visits Google+
March 1, 2012
According to studies, Google+ users only visit the site three times a month for about three minutes a visit. That’s three more visits and three more minutes than I’ve spent since I signed up. In this article from The Verge, the study notes that Facebook users visit the site up to 21 times a month […]
The Verge: US Army turns to Pinterest and social media to engage with a broader audience
February 23, 2012
Recently the U.S. Army has been using Pinterest to reach the masses via social media and also to appeal more to women since Pinterest is driven mostly by women. In class we talk a lot about social media, and more recently Pinterest so this article on The Verge fits in quite perfectly. …while most that follow the military […]
The Verge: Apple launching OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
February 16, 2012
Here is a great new article on Apple’s new operating system, Mountain Lion. As a an Apple user, I’m usually pretty excited about the updates however, their last OS, Lion, just launched seven months ago and now that I’m officially adjusted (it took a while just to remember to scroll in the opposite direction) I’m […]
The Verge: Barack Obama tweets his Spotify playlist
February 9, 2012
That headline says a lot about the candidates in my opinion. Regardless of what you think of President Barack Obama or the otehr candidates, you have to admit that he is really surging ahead when it comes to connecting to you on a technology level. So the President decided to not only share his […]
The Verge: Social media harder to resist than cigarettes
February 6, 2012
In this The Verge article, people are more likely to check their smartphone than they are likely to give in to a cigarette break according to a study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (say that five times fast). I do not smoke or drink (ok, rarely drink) so I can’t say for […]
The Verge
February 5, 2012
The tech website I’ve decided to follow is The Verge. It is a website founded by Joshua Topolsky who used to the the editor-in-chief at popular tech news website Engadget. What I like about this site is that there is a collection of tech news–the newest rumors, product reviews, articles about different gadgets, web shows, […]
