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Smartphones have finally become the norm. According to a new poll from Pew, 46% of Americans have a smartphone, compared to 41% who “own a cell phone that is not a smartphone.” Only 35% of Americans owned smartphones as of May 2011 and, back then, smartphone ownership still lagged behind ownership of feature phones by 13%.

(via Smartphones Outnumber Feature Phones in U.S. for First Time | Techland | TIME.com)

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infoneer-pulse:

For The Young, Smartphones No Longer A Luxury Item

New data from Nielsen released this morning takes a look at the typical U.S. smartphone user, specifically their age and income, as well as the penetration of smartphones into various demographic groups. Data like this can help developers, publishers and advertisers better understand who owns a smartphone, but it can also help to determine if the devices are successfully penetrating the low-end income brackets thanks to lower price points.

The answer to that latter question is yes: even those making less than $15,000 per year are likely to have a smartphone – but only if they’re young. Over half (56%) of this income bracket are smartphone owners, when aged 18-24. In the 25-34 age group, 43% of those at this income level are making room for a smartphone in their limited budgets. In the more pragmatic 35-44 age group, 31% of those making under $15,000 own a smartphone.

» via TechCrunch

According to TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech execs, the so-called “App Economy” has created an estimated 466,000 jobs since 2007, when the iPhone was first unveiled.

(via Study: ‘App Economy’ has created 500,000 jobs since 2007 — Engadget)

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Want to Print Facebook? Better Get 11.5 Billion Sheets of Paper [INFOGRAPHIC]

Sidenote: Apparently “Infographic” now means “We put a bunch of differently-sized text into a large vertical image.”

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curiositycounts:

One Hour Per Second visualizes what happens in the world simultaneously with the pace of YouTube. Possibly inspired by Just a Second.

Whoa.

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Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC])

futurejournalismproject:

The Importance of Facebook Cannot be Overstated

Selected slides from a larger comScore deck examining global social networking, microblogging and mobile trends. Select any thumbnail to embiggen.

In related news, it’s estimated that Facebook will attract its 1 billionth user this August. That’s 14 percent of the global population.

Images: via comScore.

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Open Courses for All (Infographic)

"Colleges say they’re seeing more students on campus with psychiatric illnesses. About 11.6% of college students were diagnosed or treated for anxiety in the last year, and 10.7% were diagnosed or treated for depression, according to a survey of more than 100,000 students at 129 schools conducted by the American College Health Association."

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A Serious Illness or an Excuse?

An interesting article, though with a ridiculous title (I wouldn’t expect much else from WSJ).

gjmueller:

Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites

Among teen social media users:

• 93% have an account on Facebook
• 24% have an account on MySpace
• 12% have an account on Twitter
• 7% have an account on a Yahoo site
• 6% have an account on YouTube
• 2% have an account on each of the following: Skype, myYearbook, and Tumblr
• 1% have an account on Google Buzz

via pewinternet

Only 2% on Tumblr. Really? [skeptical face]

Research Shows Just How Connected Today’s Kids Are to Technology →

K5 Learning Blog, a blog by the online reading and math program K5 Learning that follows educational issues with advocacy for parent involvement, recently reported that a number of studies have highlighted how connected and digitally tuned in kids are today to technology.

The reports showed the following interesting and fun facts:

• More than half of two- to four-year-olds use a computer.
• A quarter of kids go online by age three and half are there by age five.
• Nine percent of Toddlers between ages two and five can tie their shoes laces, while 19 percent of them can work a smartphone app. More of them can open a web browser than swim unaided.
• Children ages 8 to 18 spend on average 7 hours and 38 minutes using entertainment media.
• As they multitask, kids pack 10 hours and 48 minutes worth of media content into those roughly 7.5 hours.

There were a couple of o_O moments in here.

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Seriously, It’s Time To Manage Your Online Reputation [Infographic]

"Nine out of 10 college students say they use Facebook for social purposes, like writing status updates and posting pictures. And the majority, 58 percent, say they feel comfortable using it to connect with other students to discuss homework assignments and exams. One out of four students even went so far as to say they think Facebook is “valuable” or “extremely valuable” to their academic success."

— Students Push Their Facebook Use Further Into Course Work

More Data Was Transmitted Over the Internet in 2010 Than All Previous Years Combined →

infoneer-pulse:

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Now the transfer of data over the Internet is growing faster than ever, said Vice President of Intel’s Architecture Group Kirk Skaugen during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. He also explained how infrastructure is scaling with the increasing transfer of data.

Skaugen said although there are currently 4 billion connected devices around the world, Intel expects that number to increase to 15 billion by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020.

» via Mashable

Whoa.

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Students and Technology Infographic