Almost 50% of mobile users today have Smartphones. And about 55%, or more than half of these mobile subscribers use mobile media, which is defined as any activity such as browsing the mobile web, accessing applications or downloading content. Developing your organization’s mobile strategy is not an easy feat and we want to make sure you get it right the first time. From all the different options out there – web apps, Smartphone apps, mobile sites, tablet apps –what to choose, how to develop it and what to do with it. Today’s blog outlines some of those steps and how [...]
A Million Strong to Cure This Rare Disease – Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC)
A Million Strong to Cure This Rare Disease – Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) Published: March 22, 2012 DURHAM, N.C., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — AHC is a debilitating disease. Those who suffer from it have bouts of temporary paralysis affecting one or more parts of the body and lasting from minutes to days at a time. They also have severe learning, behavioral, and movement disabilities. AHC is currently incurable and permanent -most adults have significant struggles. The AHC Foundation’s mission is to find the cause(s) of AHC, develop treatments and/or a cure, and to support children with AHC [...]
27% of Americans get their news from mobile devices …
Today I read something about myself that I already knew…that I have started to become completely dependent on my smartphone for news. In a new report called 2012 State of the News Media by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism we find that 27% of Americans get their news from mobile devices. I’m one of those folks, and you probably are too. There are some other interesting statistics but among those are that 100 newspapers are expected to join the already existing 150 daily newspapers that have a digital subscription model. The challenge for newspapers is to balance [...]
Creating Buzz Around the World in Just a Few Hours
Exciting times here at Smart Online. We recently launched our Smart Online platform at a press event in NYC. Within just a few hours of launch, our press release was picked up by 100s of websites from around the world from Yahoo! Finance, Reuters, European Business Express, Consumer Electronics Net, Macnn and more. The Smart Online platform empowers those with the ideas, to quickly and easily develop custom, native Apple and Android Smartphone and tablet apps themselves, without having to translate their ideas to external developers or be concerned about time and cost. Internal IT departments can rest easy knowing that [...]