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From Emerald: Emerald Group Publishing has announced the launch of the Emerald app. Providing access to almost 100,000 articles from Emerald journals, the Emerald App also allows users to synch their personal profiles for seamless research workflow and share results through social media for increased dissemination and impact. It is available now for free download […]
Ten Facts about Mobile Broadband Mobile broadband is reshaping society, communications, and the global economy. With smart phone usage surpassing that of personal computers, there has been a sea change in the way consumers access and share information.Powerful mobile devices and sophisticated digital applications enable users to build businesses, access financial and health care records, […]
From the SirsiDynix Web Site: What’s New? BookMyne 3.0 Offers: Barcode scanning capability, so library users can scan the barcode of a book at a bookstore or friend’s home and retrieve availability information on the book at the patron’s library of choice; Social recommendation engine powered via Goodreads, enabling iOS and Android users to search […]
An large and impressive compilation of stats and charts from the folks at Royal Pingdom. You’ll find statistics and charts in the following categories: Smartphones Mobile Data Mobile Web Browsing Mobile-specific or general-purpose sites Mobile websites versus apps Social Networking Mobile Commerce Tablets Almost all statistics include direct links to sources making the resource even […]
Direct to Full Text Report (12 pages; PDF) via JiWire Web Site Highlights Connected Device Adoption: Tablet usage has steadily increased over the past 4 quarters. Usage is up by 84% from Q4 2010, and more recently, ownership has increased by 5% from Q2 2011. Purchase intent for this particular device is 50% higher than […]
New numbers from comScore. RIM Continues to Lead Smartphone Market, with Apple a Close Second Google Android Doubles its Smarthone Market Share in Past Six Months to 25 comScore today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the Canada mobile phone industry for September 2011. The report ranked the leading mobile […]
From EBSCO: EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released an EBSCOhost Android app ensuring that Android device users can quickly and easily take full advantage of their premium EBSCOhost database content from wherever they happen to be. The Android app is the latest option in EBSCO’s mobile access technology –providing flexible access options for all popular mobile […]
New Article: The Handheld Library: Developments at the Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library
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|Direct to Full Text: The Handheld Library: Developments at the Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library, UPC (PDF Version Also Available) By: Beatriz Benítez Juan, Javier Clavero Campos, Miquel Codina Vila, Andrés Pérez Gálvez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-Barcelona Tech) Source: LIBER Quarterly, Volume 21 (2011), No. 1 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to highlight the […]
From an iPass Blog Post: In this quarter’s iPass Mobile Workforce Report, released today, we found that 95 percent of mobile workers have smartphones, and 91 percent use them for work– a 26 percent rise compared to 2010. But the big news is 8 percent –the number of mobile employees with provisioned smartphones has declined […]
From comScore: September marked the first month when more than half (50.4%) of the total U.S. mobile audience used mobile media (which includes browsing the mobile web, accessing applications or downloading content). In the past year, the U.S. mobile media audience grew 19 percent to reach more than 118 million users as more Americans continue […]