One-Third of Americans Use Phone Apps Before Leaving Bed – Nicholas Jackson – Technology – The Atlantic

Checking Facebook is the most common activity, with 18 percent of social networking users logging in to their personal accounts “while their heads are still on the pillow,” according to the 18-month survey (PDF). “Apps for news, weather and even Craigslist are all becoming a part of the morning routine for U.S. smartphone users,” the survey found. “After getting out of bed, among those who use such services, 23 percent access the Internet via their browsers, and 24 percent check their mail.”

The Ericsson survey includes a portion of the response from Sean, a 16-year-old male who is clearly meant to represent the typical American teenager:

Insights on 2010 Mobile Year!

GLOBAL – Accessing media on mobile phones has increased significantly, with more and more people using their phones in other ways than just making a phone call, according to The 2010 Mobile Year in Review report presented by comScore. Some of the insights to that report.

Social networking was the biggest draw for people with a 56 per cent increase over the same time last year with almost 58 million mobile subscribers checking their friends status updates, shortly followed by classifieds growing by 55 per cent with 17 million users and online retail seeing a 53 per cent rise from the previous year.

Social Media Learning: Opportunity or Concern

In a recent pulse survey conducted by CARA, states

• 81% of respondents feel social media offer valuable learning opportunities for employees

• 98% of respondents agree that social media are changing how employees are learning and accessing information.

Lot is said about Social Media or Informal Learning offering valuable learning opportunities for workforce, BUT lower productivity, security and quality of source is still a significant concern.

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Are you sure your business can ignore the mobile revolution?

Day in day out you read and hear stories about businesses adding a mobile wing.

Little confused about what is this hype all about? Mobile Revolution ??

Lots of talk about different options to get involved with mobile but

“What is suitable for my business?”

In this article we will see different variations possible (Also considering Indian MSME market ) to get into mobile world. We shall see the difference between them. And some examples. Lets us make this simple.

Why you should market your business on the mobile web?

• Mobile penetrationis growing exponentially. If we thought WWW (World wide web) was big; then consider this, there are 4 billion mobile phones in the world i.e. about 4 times the number of PCs.

Instructional designers @ SNDT learn about mobile learning

SNDT college department of education and technology had recently organized an M-Learning session for their instructional designing students in association with Deltecs InfoTech. It turned out to be quite a success with the students asking for more even after the session was over and the faculty agreeing for more such meet-ups, and the team at Deltecs was more than happy to oblige and was visibly pleased at seeing the enthusiastic students at SNDT.

Jinen Dedhia named a finalist for Young Entrepreneur Award 2010 by British Council.

Press Release: 19^th August 2010, Deltecs InfoTech

Jinen Dedhia, Director – Product at Deltecs InfoTech, was named a finalist for Young Entrepreneur Award 2010 for Interactive category by British Council.

Young Creative Entrepreneur Award by British Council aims to reward creative entrepreneur based in India for their contribution to their respective sectors. The YCE award programme goes beyond simply recognising the achievements of these entrepreneurs by providing them a platform to begin a dialogue with their UK counterparts.

Rules for M-Learning

With the advent of M-Learning, as many universities & organizations have started realizing the power of mobile as a medium for learning, a lot is written about m-learning and one can hear many stories of successful implementation.

Still the ones who are  about to try or  trying for first time have lots of queries and misconceptions about M-Learning.

#1: Forget what you THINK you know

#2: Believe what you see, not what you read

#3: Don’t start with CONSTRAINTS

#4: Focus on context, goals and needs

#5: You can’t support EVERYTHING!

#6: Don’t convert, CREATE!

#7: Keep it SIMPLE

#8: Rome was not built in a day

Hope these 8 RULES help you:

a. lose your misconceptions

b. adopt to latest “Mobile Learning” swiftly and successfully.

Happy Mobile Learning!!!

YourStory’s Microsoft Canaan TechSparks 2010:Top Finalist Deltecs

Deltecs InfoTech is shortlisted as finalist for Microsoft Canaan TechSparks 2010 !

Microsoft Canaan TechSparks 2010, the YourStory flagship event in association with CNBC Young Turks, is a pan-India hunt for top product startups in the country. Out of 208 companies that registered for this program,  18 companies were shortlisted . These companies presented  their pitches to an impressive gallery of investors, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, corporate honchos, media, students, and others. A keynote and a panel discussion comprising the best of the minds in the investor space preceded the pitches.

In its efforts to contribute significantly to the entrepreneurial spirit and to help entrepreneurs find the right platform to grow their businesses, YourStory took firm steps in connecting entrepreneurs to investors, networks, and media after watching the activity for quite sometime from sidelines.

Developers v/s Masses perspective on Mobile Phone.

Recently I asked a mobile app developer “What are the 5 most enticing features that you look for in your mobile phone”
The answer was

latest mobile apps

• 1)The home screen layout
• 2)Multitasking option
• 3)Notification bar
• 4)Accessing newer apps
• 5) OS

This answer resonates the voice of many such mobile app developers.
The answer amazed me, because here the question of Internet connectivity on Phone,bigger screen size, other features like Music, Camera etc were considered default items included in every phone.
Nobody really bothers to care much about basic features ?
So when these developers are developing new applications are they working with the presumption that the masses also perceive same as default items?
To figure out, I asked some users (some who are aware of upcoming technology, newer phones and not naive mobile users)

What are the 5 most enticing features you look for while buying

a mobile phone?

Some of the answers were

“Keypad, Camera Resolution, Weight,Screen Size,Battery Life”

“1. max screen size; 2. touch screen; 3.smooth key pad; 4. cam;  5.speed”

“good camera;nice sound quality;apps supported”

“internet,chat,music,video(all formats)”

Clearly developers are more exposed to latest mobile technology and upcoming features. And they need to be abreast with latest technology and drive the markets to use these features via their applications.
Question poping up in my mind, shouldnt the apps aim at satisfying major masses rather than moving far ahead with few early adopters?

Do let me know your views on this.

1) The home screen layout
2) Multitasking option
3) Notification bar
4) Accessing newer apps
5) OS