Morgan Stanley has recently released some reports on the mobile internet: ‘The Mobile Internet Report,’ a massive 424 page tome which explores 8 major themes, ‘The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes,’ a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in the report, and for the ones in a hurry, there is ‘The Mobile Internet [...]
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What constitutes “spam” is undergoing a shift – while the top reason that respondents reported e-mail as spam was because they had not opted in to mailings, the second was that the material sent did not interest them. More than four out of 10 e-mail users who hit the “spam” button said they had categorized [...]
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The market for pay-TV in India will continue steady growth for the next several years, according to a recent reseach, Pay-TV and Video-on-Demand Potential in India, by In-Stat. Total pay-TV subscribers is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2% from 2007 to 2012, when it will reach about 90 million [...]
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Riding on estimates of the number of mobile Internet users worldwide approaching 1 billion by 2011, the mobile Internet services market is estimated to reach $80 billion by 2011, with increasing usage expected to fuel growth in both the provision of services and mobile Internet advertising.
A study entitles Go mobile, grow, produced by IBM’s Institute [...]
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A new study has found that instant messaging, or IM, is now being often used as a substitute for more disruptive forms of communication like the telephone, e-mail and personal chats, breaking the belief that that IM – along with phones and e-mail – was the cause of increased interruptions at work and resulted in [...]
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“Well over 3.5 billion mobile phones are in use around the world and organizations are harnessing this technology to help overcome humanitarian challenges,” according to Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation.
The recent report, Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, examines emerging trends in “mobile activism” by looking at [...]
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IssueLab is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research, with the mission to aggregate and disseminate a diverse body of work, which until now has been notoriously hard to locate and access.
IssueLab carries research from nonprofits, foundations, and university research centers. This is work that does not make its way into academic journals but is [...]
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A group at the University of California-Irvine decided to work on this rather intriguing question, approaching it from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers.
No doubt, blogging as a social phenomenon is significant, but studying it becomes a challenge because of the rather abstract nature of the blog itself, making [...]
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The latest State of the Media Democracy survey by Deloitte & Touche surveyed, and covered 2,081 Americans, betwen October 25 to 31. The respondents were divided into Millennials (12 to 24 years), Gen X (25 to 41 years), Boomers (42 to 60 years) and Matures (61 to 75 years). Some insights:
About 38% of U.S. [...]
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