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More Cell Phone Owners Use an App for That
Summary of Findings Six-in-ten American adults are now wireless internet users, and mobile data applications have grown more popular over the last year. As of May 2010, 59% of all adult Americans go...
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Rise of the ‘Apps Culture’
Overview Cell phone use in the U.S. has increased dramatically over the past decade. Fully eight-in-10 adults today (82%) are cell phone users, and about one-quarter of adults (23%) now live in a...
View ArticleClosing the Local News ‘App Gap’
by Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie, Tom Rosenstiel and Amy Mitchell Local news is going mobile. Nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on...
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Half of Adult Cell Phone Owners Have Apps on Their Phones
The share of adult cell phone owners who have downloaded an app to their phone nearly doubled in the past two years – rising from 22% in September 2009 to 38% in August 2011 – according to a new...
View ArticleThe Web is Dead? Experts Say ‘No’
A much-discussed cover story in Wired magazine in 2010 — “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet” — argued that the Web was “in decline” and “apps” were in the ascendance because they provided...
View ArticleMore Than Half of Mobile Users Avoid Certain Apps Due to Privacy Concerns
More than half of mobile application users have uninstalled or avoided certain apps due to concerns about the way personal information is shared or collected by the app, according to a nationally...
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Teens and Technology: Live Discussion Transcript
Our new report on Teens and Tech did a deep dive into how 12-to-17 year-olds use technology. Among the findings were a substantial increase in the use of smartphones by teens and a significant number...
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The Tablet Revolution and What it Means for the Future of News
Eleven percent of adults now own a tablet computer. About half get news on it everyday, and three in ten spend more time consuming news than they did before. But contrary to what some in the news...
View ArticleInfographic: The Tablet Revolution
Key findings from a survey report on tablet news consumption by the Project for Excellence in collaboration with the Economist Group.
View ArticleHow Teens Manage Their Privacy on Mobile Apps
As teens gain access to mobile devices, they have embraced app downloading. But many teen apps users have taken steps to uninstall or avoid apps over concern about their privacy.
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