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It's Not Just Millennials That Tap into Mobile for Social - eMarketer

Even older generations like to check their Facebook and Twitter feeds via smartphones.

“Three-quarters of the older users spent most of their social media time on mobile—that includes smartphone and tablet.... Fully 90% of [Millennials’] social media time occurred on smartphones and tablets.”

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The disparity in online access is also apparent in what has been called the “homework gap,” or the gap between school-age children who have access to high-speed internet at home and those who don’t. Some 5 million school-age children do not have a broadband internet connection at home, with low-income households accounting for a disproportionate share.

Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center

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It breaks my heart that there are children struggling to keep up at school because they don’t have the same access to the Internet as their peers. If you also want to help, please consider donating or volunteering: http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/

The Dawn Of The Age Of Responsive Media

This year's CES announcements were more exciting to me than ever before. Sure, we've already seen dozens of drones, exoskeletons, robots, rollable displays, virtual- and augmented-reality headsets, as well as personalized artificial intelligence for smart phones, smart homes, driver-assisted and autonomous cars (aka autonomobiles) and more over the years. They're [...]

Forget about choose-your-own-adventure. Responsive media will offer immersive experiences that adapt “dynamically to the consumer’s attention, engagement and context”.

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Online reviews are a big part of consumers’ purchasing decisions. Some 20.1% of US internet users said they always check online reviews before making a purchase. And more than a quarter (29.5%) of respondents said they check online reviews most of the time.

Consumers Like Reading Online Reviews, Not Writing Them - eMarketer

Survey after survey keep showing the importance of online consumer reviews but there is an imbalance between the likelihood of reading them and writing them and hence a challenge for etailers.

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