Smartphones hardly used for calls

People spend more time using their smartphones for surfing the web, checking social networks or playing games than making phone calls, new research has found.smartphone hand

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It’s All About The Images [Infographic]

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6 Reasons You Should Be Using LinkedIn For Your Marketing [infographic]

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Social vs Search Smackdown: A Battle of Internet Marketing Titans [Video Infographic]

Some say image is everything, and that’s especially true on the Internet where the shift to visual optimization is playing an increasingly important role in the recent phenomenon of photo marketing.

In light of their numerous benefits for brands of all kinds, MDG Advertising developed an insightful infographic that illustrates the influence of images on a company’s business, branding, search, and social media efforts. For insight on optimizing images for content and commerce, along with advice on image optimization techniques, take a look at the following infographic to see why images can help make success a snap. [MDGAdvertising]<p>[pb_vidembed title=”Social vs Search Smackdown” caption=”” url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGRgGofrkmg” type=”yt” w=”600″ h=”338″]

How Much Data is Created Every Minute?

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5 Tips to Turn Your Basement into a Media Room

Theater-TOP-GUNSometimes it’s just not possible to share the TV. What’s a family to do when one member is pulling for reruns of Seinfeld, and the other is rooting for the Kardashians? If you’re finding that remote-control wars are becoming common in your family room, it may be time to transform that unused space in your basement into a media room. On the rare occasion that everyone agrees, a media room can be the perfect home theater for movie nights.
We asked Deborah Wiener, owner of Designing Solutions, to give us her best tips to help you start planning a media room in your basement. I have a post 8 Home Theaters, here.

A world without the internet [infographic]

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The Truth About Millennials

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A mobile storm in the cloud [infographic]

Mobile Weds CloudDid you know that there are 3 billion more smartphones on earth than there are humans? Maybe that doesn’t come as much of a surprise to you. But what you might find more surprising is that the growth in smartphone adoption has actually contributed to Engine Yard’s success. That’s right: as smartphone adoption has grown, so has app consumption. As a result, businesses are now prioritizing mobile application development. By 2015, mobile application development projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4 to 1. Innovation in mobile is imperative, and there’s a need for tools that enable businesses to innovate quickly. Many cloud computing technologies–like Engine Yard’s Platform as a Service–have enabled developers and businesses to focus on application innovation.

The below infographic includes even more interesting facts about innovations in mobile, cloud computing and PaaS. Check it out and let us know where you think these fields are headed next.

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