Good info on sales of smartphones and a view into Android.
More fuel for our view companies who are committed to communicating with their customers, and selling to them successfully, must have a clearly defined mobile strategy and allocate sufficient spend to make it happen.
"As users expect greater functionality from their devices beyond telephony, we believe the converged mobile device market to grow faster than the overall mobile phone market," Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's mobile devices technology and trends team, said in a statement.
This is a bit technical but basically says that both SSL and TSL have security flaws that must be addressed in the form of an expert implementation and ongoing review. Or to put it another way, HTTPS or the comforting green bar in the address line aren't as comforting as you might think.
Transport Layer Security (TLS, RFC 5246 and previous, including SSL v3 and previous) is subject to a number of serious man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks related to renegotiation. In general, these problems allow an MITM to inject an arbitrary amount of chosen plaintext into the beginning of the application protocol stream, leading to a variety of abuse possibilities. In particular, practical attacks against HTTPS client
We're very excited about geolocation. Geolocation as being developed by Twitter has the potential to make the Internet suddenly relevant to society as it is lived, not just relevant to what happens online.
The idea is to take advantage of global positioning systems on cellphones to allow Twitter users to include a precise location with each tweet. Users would be able, right off the bat, to limit their searches to tweets from a particular location.
That simple filter made a huge difference in what a visitor to Twitter’s search engine discovered about the Fort Hood shootings. After limiting searches to those from within 15 miles of Killeen, Tex.,
Our clients rely on us to help them use new technology to manage costs and increace revenues. Here's s cool new tool we're recommending our clients use to understand who their Twitter followers are. It's especially interesting for companies for whom customer location is important. It's also great for insight into our clients' own tweeting habits.
Foller.me is a free app that utilizes data from that user’s last 200 tweets to generate a page displaying three tag clouds: Recent topics, #hashtags, and @mentions AND displays Followers Geography and Followers Rate.
The map, powered by Google, displays custom Twitter flags to mark the geographical locations of a Twitter user’s followers.... are clickable to reveal exact locations and names.
New metrics by Performics and ROI Research shows the immense opportunity for engaging with consumers on specific social networking sites. Let’s take a look at the data which was based on 3,000 active social network users:
·46% of respondents say they would talk about or recommend a product on Facebook
·44% of Twitter users have recommended a product
·36% of YouTube users say that they have gone to an online retailer or ecommerce site after learning about a brand on a social network site
·48% of Twitter users who saw brand’s name mentioned on the site would use a search engine to investigate further
