Tag: MOBILEWEB

Ever wonder what Americans are doing during those countless hours that they sit in front of a computer screen? Turns out that, more than anything else, they're getting their Facebook and Twitter on. According to Nielsen, a good 22.7-percent of time online is spent on social networking sites. That's a drastic increase from June of last year, when a reported 15.8-percent of time online was spent ...

An uproar ensued when AT&T discontinued its unlimited data plan last month, and the company defended itself by arguing that 98-percent of its customers never used more than the 2GB allotted by the DataPro plan. Turns out, AT&T might even have been understating its case against the unlimited plan if the numbers from a new Nielsen study are to be believed. Nielsen has been tracking the ...

Just in time for the Fourth of July, the federal government's official Web portal, USA.gov, has been redesigned and relaunched with more comprehensive tools for citizen browsers. The clearing house for all other government sites and services has a brand new search engine that is reportedly nine-times faster than the original, and now boasts search-as-you-type features. The site also puts mobile ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Analysts at Morgan Stanley expect mobile Internet usage to surpass stationary browsing by 2015. According to Mary Meeker (Morgan's leading Web analyst), the mobile Web has grown at a significantly faster pace than desktop usage (such as dial up or broadband). With more and more people snatching up smartphones, though, most of this ...

Michelin guides, the oldest and most illustrious European hotel and restaurant guide, has finally arrived on the mobile Internet scene. Mobile Michelin guides will partner with "jet set" mobile content provider Ubi Ubi to provide the latest reviews of restaurants in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. The Mobile Internet restaurant guides are online now at www.ubiubi.mobi and ...

Just cause you don't want to bother to call up the local national pizza chain doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to get it delivered to your doorstep. Or at least we don't think so, and it seems the big three pizza chains agree. Pizza Hut is the latest to offer mobile and web text messaging, while Domino's began offering ordering via a mobile website in September (to some locations). Pizza Hut, ...