Posts Tagged ‘U.S.

One in every three online Americans is what Forrester calls a “conversationalist,” defined as someone who updates her status on Facebook or tweets at least once a week. Conversationalists are also older, wiser than other online denizens — and predominantly female. Forrester’s “The New Social Technographics” report (embedded below) is the product of surveying 10,112 [...]

On Friday, Verizon and AT&T both dropped the price of their unlimited voice plans. Yesterday was the first day that existing customers could switch to these new plans, and luckily BillShrink has put together a nice chart comparing the different U.S. mobile carriers side-by-side. Despite lipspeak from carriers, trying to figure out the information using [...]

Internet company Akamai released their quarterly “State of the Internet” report, which includes “data gathered across Akamai’s global server network about attack traffic, connection speeds, Internet penetration and broadband adoption, as well as trends seen in this data over time.” One bummer of a trend, at least for U.S. netizens: From 2008 to 2009, the [...]

Digital cameras are fantastic for letting us experiment, take tons of photos, and search for the perfect shot. Digital picture frames and at-home prints are often poor substitutes for real photos. Get a great print at one of these five photo-printing sites. Photo by Shermeee. Once upon a time people took photos and dutifully carted [...]

From China Real Time Report: From Silicon Valley to Zhongguancun, Google’s surprise announcement that it may pull out of China has fueled an enormous amount of discussion in recent days, not all of it 100% accurate. Below are some misstatements and misunderstandings we’ve seen: 1. Google failed in China Google’s China operations contribute a small [...]


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