To date there has been a lot of research to negate both my personal enthusiasm and the data that Flurry (and others) are enthusiastically bringing forward. Data plans are starting to become more reasonable. The price of data plans are being built into the family cost structure (according to the MediaPost article). It's about data. It wasn't too long ago that mobile carriers didn't care about data. According to the MediaPost article, " Cisco predicted today that mobile data use worldwide is poised to grow 21x by 2015." data plan. MORE >>

Research Methods ‘Beyond Google’ When “Google” has become a synonym for “research,” how should faculty respond? Post-Microsoft, Libraries Mull Digitization , May 30. The problem is near-universal for professors who discover, upon assigning research projects, that superficial searches on the Internet and facts gleaned from Wikipedia are the extent — or a significant portion — of far too many of their students’ investigations. ” “Research isn’t a Google search,” she said. research etc. MORE >>

great piece of research exploring these differences has just been completed by a team at Microsoft Research, led by Jake Hofman. The team recorded every tweet containing a link to one of the top 40 websites in the world for music, news and videos over an 18 month period; they then built a data set of all content that had been linked to more than 100 times. This data set included links to nearly 300,000 pieces of content from over 1.4 Tweet The Fifties in 3D (Photo credit: The National Archives UK). And very few things actually go viral in social media. MORE >>

A week after Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin said that mobile doesn’t need another operating system , Microsoft responded with what analysts believe can be a long-term game-changer. Microsoft has a market share of only 5 percent in the global smartphone market, according to research firm Gartner, compared with 9 percent a year ago. They (Microsoft) are not going to change their position today or in the next month,&# Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at research firm Gartner, told Reuters. Tags: Data Points Location-based services Mobile Advertising MORE >>

Should we expect a shift in the operating system landscape in favor of Microsoft (with Symbian as a back-up plan)? Microsoft & more. In line with the news of day, Kevin and Rob dissected the decline of Research In Motion (RIM) — which was interestingly also one of Kevin’s 2012 predictions. Microsoft is a tough one to call. Kevin reported that CES was upbeat about the Windows Phone, a reaction Kevin reads as a positive in Microsoft’s favor. Mobile Apps Mobile Research VodcastsWearable computing. He lives it. is less clear. MORE >>