Apple has a lock not only on its own users of iPods, iPhones, and iPads, but on users of other devices thanks to the near-ubiquity of iTunes.
Stephens is more leery of recent developments like Google Maps Streetview, which offers street level photographs of entire cities, and Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, which tracks the behavior of users on thousands of Web sites.
In one study by NYU professor Florence Marotta-Wurgler, only about .11% of users clicked on a terms of service agreement.
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The main page users see resembles Microsoft Outlook, with a calendar that reminds users of deadlines on pending cases.
The Web has been abuzz with warnings about Firesheep, a simple Firefox add-on that lets users steal cookies and snoop on the Facebook and Twitter activities of any fellow users on an unsecured wireless network.
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And there are millions of users on Match, JDate, OKCupid, and a host of other sites.
This new trend will be emphasized by the upcoming Olympics, with the number of users on Facebook having risen to 900 million -- nine times the figure it was for the Beijing Games of 2008.
Of course, this is just a single sampling of users, and On Device gives no indication of how many of the almost almost 16, 000 iPhone owners surveyed are on each platform (I have queried the company on this point), but in the ever-upward world of technology, flatness equals death.
At the end of the day I am on the side of users and I am somewhat agnostic as to which companies gets to stand on top of the competitive mountain.
The fact that, in the face of those headwinds, one-third of Office users plan on getting the new version suggests that reports of Office's demise may be premature.
The potential for this sort of attack and the number of iPad users on the list we saw who were stewards of major public and commercial infrastructure necessitated our public disclosure.
With reports of 500 million registered accounts, what is the actual number of users on the service?
The best-known example is Salesforce.com, which is licensed according to the number of users on a subscription basis.
For users of the bridge on Tuesday, the expansion sounded like a godsend.
If you see a group of figures, that means the content is limited to certain group of users on the site.
The first is the volume of users on the platform, the second is showing developers that the platform is financially viable.
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Of users on Facebook, 58% liked a brand page in 2011 and 41% shared content about that brand on their wall.
Brands already pick to promote their content and different social handles to select groups of users based on search keywords and profile types.
But Zynga still needs the large number of users on Facebook.
He also thinks the cloud and mobile devices combined will boost the number of users on SAP systems by more than 10x, from under 100 million now to a billion.
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The service, Facebook Exchange, will let advertisers reach specific types of users on the social network based on their browsing history, Annie Ta, a company spokeswoman, said in an interview yesterday.
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Publicity about the threat has made many users wary of clicking on strange-looking links posted via social networks, which may have prompted the perpetrators of this latest attack to switch tactics.
But experts agree that women, who make up the majority of users on all networking sites, are more likely to use social media for social reasons, while men generally use it for increasing status.
In terms of specific verticals, Ng sees big opportunity for gaming, since browser-based game developers would be happy to get their apps in front of users on the desktop rather than having to go through the browser.
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While Qualcomm VIVE 802.11ac provides up to 1.3 Gbps PHY rate of Wi-Fi capacity, Qualcomm StreamBoost provides a superior connected experience to users of all devices on a home network by managing and shaping traffic, and giving each connected device and application the priority and bandwidth required for optimal performance.
Another argument: Despite the flood of direct-to-consumer advertising on Vioxx, much of the responsibility for balancing the risks and benefits for Vioxx users fell on the shoulders of doctors.
While an estimated 80% of IM users are on either AIM or ICQ, Ferris claims the heavy adoption of IM services will tear away at the company's market share.
While we anticipate that the number of registered users on Facebook will rise to 2.3 billion by the end of our forecast period, Trefis members expect the user count to cross 2.6 billion.
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There are now more than 150 million active users of AVG antivirus software, 36 million (about 24 percent) of those users are on mobile devices, and they are almost entirely Android users.
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