Yozi new library of cellphone stories – also known as mobile novels or m-novels – was launched by the . as part of its m4Lit (mobiles for literacy) project. see the project release at http://m4lit.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/press-release-launch-of-yoza-m-novel-library/
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Some 35% of U.S. adults have software applications or
“apps” on their phones, yet only 24% of adults use those apps. Many
adults who have apps on their phones, particularly older adults, do not
use them, and 11% of cell owners are not sure if their phone is equipped
with apps.
Among cell phone owners, 29% have downloaded apps to their phone and 13%
have paid to download apps.
“An apps culture is clearly emerging among some cell phone users,
particularly men and young adults,” said Kristen Purcell, Associate
Director for Research at the Pew Internet Project. “Still, it is clear
that this is the early stage of adoption when many cell owners do not
know what their phone can do. The apps market seems somewhat ahead of a
majority of adult cell phone users.”
“This is a pretty remarkable tech-adoption story, if you consider that
there was no apps culture until two years ago,” said Roger Entner,
co-author of the report and Senior Vice President and Head of Research
and Insights for Telecom Practice at Nielsen. “Every metric we capture
shows a widening embrace of all kinds of apps by a widening population.
It’s too early to say what this will eventually amount to, but not too
early to say that this is an important new part of the technology world
of many Americans.”
This report is based on a Pew Internet telephone survey of 2,252 U.S. adults age 18 and older, conducted by Princeton Survey Research International between April 29 and May 30, 2010. The sample included 1,917 adult cell phone users, 744 of whom were contacted on their cell phones. The margin of error is +/- 2.4 percentage points for results based on the total sample of adults, and +/- 2.7 percentage points for results based on cell phone users.
It also contains Nielsen data from an analysis of 3,962 adults (age 18+) gathered in the December 2009 Apps Playbook, an online, self-administered non-probability sample of apps downloaders originally identified in Nielsen’s Mobile Insights survey of cell phone subscribers identified through online panels. For more information, please see the methodology section.
Two-thirds of Americans who use cell phones while driving believe it is safer to talk on a hands-free cell phone than on a hand-held device according to a new study released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. However, scientific research shows that is simply not the case.
As the number of cell phone subscribers and proportion of drivers using cell phones continues to increase, studies that have analyzed the cell phone records of crash-involved drivers have reported that using a cell phone while driving makes you four times as likely to be involved in a crash.
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Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
This month I had a Library Technology Report published on the mobile Web, however, it was written before Apple’s release of the new iPhone 3G. This article attempts to provide a bit of an update to that, delineating some of the improvements to the device with its second issue as well as pointing out a few of the shortcomings which have been expressed by early reviewers...
From iLibrarian blog
And for further coverage:
If you’re interested in more coverage of the new iPhone 3G be sure and take a look at these articles.
For the iPhone, the ‘New’ Is Relative – The New York Times
Newer, Faster, Cheaper iPhone 3G – All Things Digital (Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal)
Apple’s New iPhone 3G: Still Not Perfect, but Really Close – USA Today
10 Things the 3G iPhone is Still Missing – PCWorld
iPhone 3G Review – Gizmodo
Seven Problems with the New iPhone – The Bivings Report
Those of you who have taken the plunge and purchased a new iPhone 3G, please leave your impressions in the comments!
…The ScanR application works like this: A user takes a photo with their camera phone, sends it via SMS or MMS to an online imaging service and the service then converts it to a standard PDF file. According to Chris Dury, vice president of marketing at the firm, the proprietary scanning technology is extremely accurate and is gaining traction with consumers.
To provide proof of concept, ScanR has primarily marketed its application through off-portal download sites. But Dury says it also has gained traction virally through user endorsements. One surprising note: ScanR attracts a lot of student and consumer users. In fact, next to business users, Dury says the biggest segment for this application is students.
The company so far has allowed consumers to use its service for free but is in the process of converting its users to the paid model by allowing them to use it five times per month for free. After that, customers are charged $3 per month for unlimited usage…
