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Tablet news apps
What do the features and functionality of the leading news/magazine apps tell us about trends in the development of mobile content.? Content Matters reviews the three current market leaders...
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Facing up to the cybersecurity challenge
In the latest issue of McKinsey Quarterly James Kaplan identifies a perfect storm of factors that are conspiring to make cybersecurity a major business challenge. Stakeholders expect more ‘openness’....
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The gamification of recruitment
Gamification continues to make its presence felt in the world of work. The hotel chain Marriott International has launched a Facebook game that gives players the opportunity to ‘work’ in various hotel...
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Doing a digital detox
Susan Maushart withdrew digital media from her home (and her three teenagers) for six months and wrote a book about it. The gloriously entitled Winter of our Disconnect was published at the beginning...
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The rise of the ‘digital omnivore’
ComScore has published its latest report on the mobile landscape, analysing key trends and statistics from 2011 and predicting growth and usage patterns for 2012. The report focuses primarily on the...
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Students – leading the way or falling behind?
Two interesting pieces of research look at how students are interacting with digital information and e-resources. A recent CourseSmart survey finds that more students are bringing laptops to class than...
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TV and video viewing trends
Viewing TV and other video content on tablets has doubled according to research by NPD DisplaySearch. And it’s not just tablets that consumers are using. The findings indicate that over 70% of...
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New teaching and new learning – universities in 2020
Higher education is as susceptible to technology disruption as any other information-centric business. Communications technologies mean that knowledge transfer need no longer be tethered to a physical...
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A new era of TV viewing
A new report by Ericsson ConsumerLab explores the changing TV viewing habits of consumers around the world. The researchers carried out in-depth interviews in the US and Sweden and 12,000 online...
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Information security risks of mobile apps
Increasing numbers of employees are using their own devices (loaded with apps) at work and connecting to their company’s network. The security specialist firm Bit9 analysed 400,000 mobile apps to...
View ArticleDigital consumers – the rise of the digital multi-tasker
KPMG has been researching consumer media behaviour for over five years – during which time we have seen social media go mainstream, the introduction of smartphones and tablets and the rise of digital...
View ArticleMobile apps – what the customer wants
Smartphone penetration has reached 50% in the US and on average each smartphone user has 41 apps installed (up from 32 on average in 2012). A billion apps are downloaded from Apple’s App Store every...
View ArticleDigital Europe – the latest figures
In 1996, 66% of the world’s internet audience was based in the US. By 2012 87% of the world’s internet audience was based outside the US. Europe is now the world’s second largest internet audience...
View ArticleMulti-screen trends
We are living in an increasingly connected and mobile world. It is critical that we understand how our customers and potential customers are using multiple devices so that we can ensure they are...
View ArticleMobile search: creating moments that matter
The majority of people who use mobile search to find information on consumer items and services have every intention of making a purchase. In a study (by Nielsen and Google) researchers found that...
View ArticleBYOD – latest trends and predictions
Two new reports on the impact of BYOD on business and individuals have appeared this month. BYOD strategies enable employees to use their own devices to access data and enterprise applications....
View ArticleMultiscreen and mobile
A global study of 15,000 mobile web users in 14 countries* explored how consumers are interacting with visual content across a variety of devices. The report outlines opportunities for businesses and...
View ArticleWearable technology and apps
Google Glass may have been garnering many column inches recently but wearable technology and apps are still relatively niche products. 18% of the 4,000 adults in the US and UK who participated in...
View ArticleGood mobile experiences for customers
In a global survey of senior level executives, 74% said that mobile was either “critical” or “important” to the delivery of their organisation’s business objectives. Only 6% said that mobile was not...
View ArticleManaging information risk – European business must do better
European companies are improving when it comes to managing information risk, but they must do even better. PWC and Iron Mountain have published their 2013 Risk Maturity Index, exploring attitudes to...
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