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Mobile Web Use Growing Faster Than Ever

From Read/Write Web

Wireless devices are everywhere these days. Wi-Fi hotspots are are popping up in more places and aircards protrude from the laptops of the mobile workforce. Computing is changing, too. Cloud computing will move applications and storage away from the desktop to remote servers. If anything, this drive to push data off the PC and onto the web has been in some part driven by the increasing mobility of internet users. Mobile access to the web is pushing internet adoption rates up while also providing more people the opportunity to work away from a stationary PC. So who is going mobile? Some new studies from PEW Internet & American Life Project and iPass shed some light on this topic.

Cell Phones are Still Pushing Internet Adoption Rates

Back in 1998, only one third of adults had online access and a desktop PC cost around $1800. At this time, it was mainly upper income Americans, and mostly men, using computers and the internet.

But now, it's mobile access that is bringing the internet to more people. Building from the affordable and easy-to-use cell phone, adoption patterns are different for mobile users than for those accessing the web via traditional PC-based methods. Specially, cell phone internet users include groups that had, before now, lagged in internet adoption, like some minorities and senior citizens...

Published on Read/Write Web at March 13 PermaLink

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FCC Looks At Nokia N78

From Ubergizmo

FCC Looks At Nokia N78The Nokia N-Series of cell phones will soon receive yet another member into their fold - the Nokia N78, if the FCC gives it a nod through numerous tests. What can you expect from this 3G-enabled handset? For starters, it will feature a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus capability...

Published on Ubergizmo at 12:25 AM PermaLink

Healthline Partners With Aetna For Personalized Medical Portal

From TechCrunch

healthline-logo.pngWhile Microsoft and Google want to build general health portals for consumers (Microsoft launched HealthVault, and we’re still waiting for Google Health), medical search engine Healthline is taking more of a white-label approach. It is partnering with Aetna to create a personalized health portal for insurance customers called Aetna SmartSource...

Published on TechCrunch at 12:24 AM PermaLink

Sprout’s WYSIWYG Flash Editor Now Available to Everyone

From Mashable

Sprout, the WYSIWYG flash editor that launched a private beta in January at DEMO, is now available to everyone. After earning a “DEMOgod” award and inviting around 5,000 beta testers, the site is also releasing a handful of new features, many of which are designed to make the tool easier to use...

Published on Mashable at 12:21 AM PermaLink

Google: Finding the Bottom. $350? Less?

From Infectious Greed

Lots of chatter this weekend about where a bottom might be for Google. After all, the stock has weakened largely in anticipation of poor upcoming results, not because it has drastically underformed expectations yet.

Let's say, however, the search company is set to perform less well, at least for a couple of quarters. That seems a reasonable assumption, as I've written here a number of times recently...

Published on Infectious Greed at 12:20 AM PermaLink

Belt Buckle Spy Camera Seems Awkwardly Placed

From OhGizmo!

Belt Buckle DVR With Camera (Images courtesy Ajoka.com)Seeing how small digital video spy cameras have become is not as impressive as it used to be. But seeing where people try to hide those cameras is still pretty entertaining. A company called Ajoka

has managed to integrate one into a fairly normal looking belt buckle...

Published on OhGizmo! at 12:18 AM PermaLink

Treo and Centro Software March Specials

From Treonauts

This month’s Treo and Centro Software Bestseller list once more sees Ringo Pro, Butler and VolumeCare Pro retain the Top 3 spots maintaining their undisputed position for nearly a year now.  The best climbers this month are UltimatePhone (up two points to #5) and Softick Audio Gateway (up to #8)...

Published on Treonauts at 12:16 AM PermaLink

RateMyCop Censored by GoDaddy

From BoingBoing

RateMyCop.com -- a site where the general public can comment on police officers -- has been shut down by its hosting company, GoDaddy. The company claims his site had been engaged in "suspicious activity." Various police departments and organizations have spoken out against RateMyCop, arguing that it would reveal the identities of undercovers...

Published on BoingBoing at 12:11 AM PermaLink

Comcast to Beef up Network With New 100Gbps Optics

From Ars Technica

Today at the Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Philadelphia, Comcast and Nortel announced a successful trial of a 100Gbps optical solution for its metro and long haul networks. Translated: the companies are using new Nortel gear to shuttle traffic over a 100Gbps wavelength that's also carrying live 10Gbps and 40Gbps links...

Published on Ars Technica at 12:06 AM PermaLink

LiveJournal 2008: Advisory Board Elections

From /Message

San Francisco: I am following the activities at LiveJournal with real interest. The company -- recently purchased from Six Apart -- has recently announced a great advisory board (danah boyd, Esther Dyson, Brad Fitzpatrick and Lawrence Lessig), and the hiring of Jason Shelling (formerly of Google)...

Published on /Message at 12:05 AM PermaLink

YouTube Offers New Service

From VentureBeat

youtube0312081.pngYouTube today announced a new platform for third parties to more easily publish videos directly from their own sites, without having to first go to YouTube to do the work...

Published on VentureBeat at 12:03 AM PermaLink

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