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Google Knows Where You’ve been Using Your Smartphone
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Here are some of the key findings from “The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Users,” a study from Google and conducted by Ipsos OTX, an independent market research firm, among 5,013 US adult smartphone Internet users at the end of 2010:
71% of smartphone users search because of an ad they’ve seen either online or offline; 82% of smartphone users notice mobile ads, 74% of smartphone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their smartphones to help with shopping, and 88% of those who look for local information on their smartphones take action within a day.
Google commissioned this research with the objectives to better understand how smartphones are used in consumers’ daily lives and how smartphones have influenced the ways consumers search, shop and respond to mobile advertising. Check out the video below:
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iPad 2 International Prices List
0Here’s a very nice comparison table with international prices for iPad 2. Best deals are in the USA and Australia. The highest prices are in Norway and Sweden. Take a look:
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iPhone 5 Complete Rumor Roundup Infographic
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After all the rumors on the iPhone 5, a French site NowhereElse has created a wonderful infographic of all the iPhone 5 rumors that we’ve seen over the period of last few months. All the rumors have different probability gauges of each one next to them.
Here’s the complete infographic of all the iPhone 5 rumors:
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Apple’s New Data Center Revealed to be Giant Vault
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Once again, Steve Jobs is poised to pull a surprise out of his hat.
Apple’s 500,000-square-foot North Carolina facility, long thought to be a server farm set to power the company’s cloud-based services, turns out to be nothing of the sort.
According to the folks at scoopertino, the facility is actually the world’s largest vault — where Apple will stash the $60 billion treasure it holds in reserve.
Each of four connected vaults are designed to hold a different type of asset. One of the largest vaults, measuring over 140,000 square feet, is dedicated to US currency — kept crisp by an advanced climate control system. Apple engineers are already at work to reduce the amount of space needed for currency, co-developing a million-dollar-bill with the U.S. Treasury.
“Smaller” vaults (measuring 75,000 and 95,000 square respectively) will house Bonds & CDs and special Apple-designed gold bullion.
Incoming bullion awaits an Apple-engineered smelting process to ensure that it meets the Apple gold standardThe largest vault in the facility — covering a mind-numbing 230,000 square feet — would make Jack Sparrow blush. Here, pirate-style, Apple plans to store jewels and contraband in overflowing chests. This jives with recent rumors that Apple Stores will soon be accepting jewelry from cash-strapped patrons.
But don’t think Apple has taken its eye off the cloud. A small broom closet near the facility’s southeast service entrance houses the servers that will provide cloud-based magic to Apple’s customers when and if the company sees fit.
Public tours of Apple’s North Carolina facility will begin June 1st. Admission is $29, payable in cash or bullion.
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