The biggest surge came from mobile consumers, with sales reaching 16.3 percent, led by the iPad.
Because it is easy and secure, direct carrier billing has become a top choice for mobile consumers.
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Similar to what it does on Facebook, Zynga has the ability to cross-promote games within its existing mobile apps, introducing mobile consumers to its games.
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In addition, the Acer Aspire One AOD250 will satisfy the demands of mobile consumers who want a compact, light-weight netbook for Internet access and communications.
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It is a force of nature for mobile consumers who want to pick the best restaurant for dinner, but increasingly for all sorts of professional services and retail stores.
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"WIND Mobile has done a fantastic job of signing up some of the most forward thinking mobile consumers in the country and has taught Canadians that there can be alternatives to traditional wireless service, " said Jody Schnarr, CEO of Fongo Inc.
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At question is whether the company can muster the talent to either extend its dominant desktop franchise and architecture and put it into the hands of mobile consumers, or redefine its position in the category completely, in what is already a very fragmented market.
Offering three distinct models to fit the unique needs of mobile media consumers, ASUS believes in providing consumers with choices.
Nearly a fifth (19%) of mobile news consumers has paid for a digital subscription of some kind in the last year.
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The company is betting that it'll get more mileage with mobile phone consumers from its traditional sturdy image than from the fresh, youth-centered Cingular brand.
The Unlocking Technology Act would make it permanently legal for consumers to unlock their mobile devices, and consumers would not be required to obtain permission from their carrier before switching to a new carrier.
Online payments startup Braintree saw an even bigger increase in mobile, with a 50% increase in consumers using mobile devices to make purchases.
As with other mobile ad networks, inMobi technology helps advertisers reach specific consumers over mobile Internet sites run on hundreds of different handset models, and measure the results of ad campaigns by tracking the clicks.
More importantly to this analysis, mobile shopping boomed with 24% of consumers using a mobile device to access online retailers, and purchases were up 16% over last year.
For example, mobile carriers lock consumers into two-year contracts by charging early termination fees.
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In an iconic, mobile world, consumers will measure all brands by the easy, effortless way they offer solutions.
The obvious problem: in a computing era increasing dominated by mobile devices, consumers are printing less and less.
The rapid growth and expansion in the mobile market exposes consumers to a wide variety of privacy invasions.
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With the increase in mobile malware, consumers need to be smarter in how they protect themselves and where they click.
As Intel expands its geographic presence, the company sees tremendous opportunity in delivering rich Intel-based mobile experiences to consumers across emerging markets.
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Facebook, like its rivals, has increased efforts to grow its business on mobile devices as consumers spend more time accessing the Internet through smartphones.
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TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) (Nasdaq: TSYS), is a leader in location-based technology whose mobile services empower consumers to make quick, smart decisions when they're on the go.
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HealthTap, which has mobile apps for consumers and doctors, routes the questions to the appropriate doctors who have expertise on the particular subjects of the questions.
With the growing adoption of mobile payment services consumers are able to carry out their shopping with their phones while comparing goods and services from competing vendors.
"We will continue to assert our intellectual property rights and defend against Apple's claims to ensure our continued ability to provide innovative mobile products to consumers, " it said.
Dyle mobile TV keeps consumers informed and entertained while on the go and allows them to watch local and national sports, news and entertainment broadcast programming on their mobile phones.
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Pokki, from startup SweetLabs, recently launched to offer consumers mobile-style apps on the PC desktop through a small bar on the bottom of the PC screen (See stories here and here).
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With mobile game play continuing its dramatic growth curve, GameTanium now offers operators the ability to leverage Exent's world leading Games on Demand service on the two mobile platforms their consumers want most.
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Second, and arguably more important than an elegant design, Home has the potential to shake up relationships between carriers, mobile software providers, advertisers and consumers by making free mobile VoIP calls as mainstream as Facebook itself.
In the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia which are deeply saturated with smart, mobile devices, consumers may eventually decide the smartest machines they own are no longer pocketable slabs for wireless communication, but the watch or glasses they can wear and barely have to handle.
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