Ordering drinks at bars can be a pain. If the bar is crowded, you better expect to wait a while to order. And if it turns into a wild night, you may end up leaving behind your credit card and an open tab. BarEye is expanding into five new cities after a successful trial run in Tallahassee... Read more...
Young people have a totally different take on acceptable smartphone usage than older people. We did had Survey Monkey conduct a nationwide survey on how people are using their smartphones. Below, you can see a split in attitudes among people aged 18-29 and aged 49-60. The younger people think it's ... Read more...
People in the United Kingdom love their smartphones as much as those of us in the United States or, say, Hong Kong. But unlike the Chinese or Americans, Britons are able to put their phones down on holidays and weekends. That's the revelation in this chart, from Ericsson's latest huge report... Read more...
T-Mobile the last major US carrier to sell the iPhone, announced yesterday that it has already sold 500,000 units since the phone launched on April 12. That's pretty good, considering most other smartphones don't come close to those sales numbers in such a short time, even if they're ... Read more...
Cool chart from mobile analytics firm, Flurry. It says people are spending 127 minutes per day with their smartphones, up from 66 minutes per day in 2010. This means we spend more time with mobile phones and apps than we do on the web. This time spent is rapidly approaching the time we spend... Read more...
Mobile video has historically been held back by a single factor: bandwidth. But 4G LTE is changing that, and mobile video is already more popular on the faster wireless networks. Mobile video is quickly becoming a mass consumer phenomenon, much as digital photos were earlier in ... Read more...
As recently as eight years ago, Microsoft had a monopoly on the internet connected computers of the world. Today, not so much. This chart comes from Goldman Sachs, and it shows Microsoft losing its market dominance of computing devices as smartphones and tablets have come into the market. It's c... Read more...
Next time you’re standing in line at the movies, look around. Chances are there’s at least one person who doesn’t use the Internet. One in five American adults never log on, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. People who fall into this group are senior citizens, adults... Read more...