Mobile Phones

Teens and Technology 2013

The Pew Research Center — which regularly releases excellent studies identifying trends in the online world — has released a new survey entitled “Teens and Technology 2013.” They find that smartphone adoption among American teens has increased substantially. One in four teens are “cell-mostly” internet users, who say they mostly go online using their phone and not...

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Cell Phone Guide for Protesters

The Electronic Frontier foundation has put together a list of tips on how the #Occupy movement can protect its mobile data. As they say: “Protesters of all political persuasions are increasingly documenting their protests — and encounters with the police — using electronic devices like cameras and cell phones. The following tips apply to protesters in the United States who are...

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Crowdsourced Video: Watch Everything and Everywhere at Once

Want to see the cutting edge of crowd-sourced video production? The Uptake, hands-down the best guerrilla video shop in the country (they live-streamed the Wisconsin Uprising), has developed a new video aggregator for the Occupy Wall Street movement that lets you easily click back and forth between feeds from 61 different locations (and counting, there’s even an #OccupyLjubljana feed from...

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Email is Moving to Mobile Devices

According to the blog Frogloop, “It was recently reported that one in three Americans owns a smartphone.  Some sources are indicating that more people will own smartphones than traditional cellphones by 2012. Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing.” And as smartphone and tablet use rises, your email follows. Email reading on mobile...

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