The latest Rogers Innovation Report for 2012 was conducted to reveal Canadians are increasingly becoming addicted to their smartphones. A panel of 1040 Angus Reid Forum members that owned smartphones and tablets with data plans were surveyed in late November. The results have produced a look at some trends in 2012--here are some interesting ones:...
Pocket has become one of the most popular services to save articles or links for reading later. Last year, the company was known as Read It Later but was rebranded to Pocket. The company has posted their 2012 year in review and they have experienced some incredible success: 240 million 'saved to Pocket' instances from...
A new report released by Chitika based on hundreds of millions of U.S. and Canadian online ad impressions reveals Safari and mobile Safari users are the most verbose when it comes to search queries: Mobile Safari users average 5.17 words per query (WPQ) and Safari users at 5.08. Opera users average the least at 3.88...
Canadians love to communicate via text messages--a week ago the CWTA reported we sent over 24 billion of them in Q2 of 2012. This is also become the new norm for flirting and dating, according to Virgin Mobile and their recent study detailing "textiquette". LedgerWeb asked over 1000 Canadians in an online panel about their...
According to statistics released today by iQmetrix, the leading retail management software solutions provider in U.S and Canada, iPhone 5 accounts for 20% of smartphone activations in North America since its launch on September 21st. The analysis sampled 7,000 independent wireless retailers across the region, revealing year-over-year buying trends in the past year. Looking at the analytical data, it...
According to a recent survey by research firm AskYourTargetMarket (AYTM), 22 percent of Android users plan to move to an iPhone within the next six months, while 87 percent of existing iPhone users plan to buy the iPhone 5 in the next six months. In the light of AYTM's research findings, an interesting article by Computer World highlights why iOS users are...