The number of Canadians purchasing smartphones may be rising, but an overwhelming number of Canadians continue to use their mobile devices for the most basic functions - texting and taking pictures, according to Delvinia Dig, a quarterly report on the digital behaviours and attitudes of Canadian consumers.
Mobile carrier app stores are a long way from dead. Despite the fanfare around application stores tied to specific mobile devices such as iPhones and BlackBerries, a new Nielsen survey finds ongoing loyalty to carrier stores. As of the end of 2009, half of all applications users were accessing carrier app stores according to Nielsen's new App Playbook.
The losses suffered in traditional news gathering in the last year were so severe that by any accounting they overwhelm the innovations in the world of news and journalism, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ).
Major news portals - like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL, and Topix - are the most commonly used online news sources, beating out the web sites of major news outlets like CNN, CBS, and the New York Times.
A group of investors is in Washington to push for passage of a bill that they say would make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs to stay-and create jobs-in the U.S.
A group of investors is in Washington to push for passage of a bill that they say would make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs to stay-and create jobs-in the U.S.
In former swamplands teeming with otters and wild hogs, one of the nation's biggest utilities is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.
