Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption in the past year while maintaining their stronghold as the leading message senders. Using recent data from monthly cell phone bills of 65,000+ mobile subscribers who volunteered to participate in the research, Nielsen analyzed mobile usage trends among teens in the United States. In the third quarter of 2011, teens age 13-17 used an average of 320 MB of data per month on their phones, increasing 256 percent over last year and growing at a rate faster than any other age group.  Much of this activity is driven by teen males, who took in 382 MB per month while females used 266 MB.

Messaging remains the centerpiece of mobile teen behavior.  The number of messages exchanged monthly (SMS and MMS) hit 3,417 per teen in Q3 2011, averaging seven messages per waking hour.  Teen females are holding the messaging front, sending and receiving 3,952 messages per month versus 2,815 from males.  Aside from messaging, data heavy activities such as mobile internet, social networking, email, app downloads, and app usage are the most popular mobile activities.

Teens are not focused on making calls via their mobile phones. Voice usage has declined the most among this group, from an average of 685 minutes to 572 minutes. When surveyed, the top three reasons teens said that they prefer messaging to calling was because it is faster (22 percent), easier (21 percent), and more fun (18 percent).

For more mobile insights, download State of the Media: The Mobile Media Report Q3 2011.

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The Information Age is an 80 year wave of economic and societal change that is in its second half, where business value comes from exploitation of technology rather than from installation, according to Gartner, Inc.

“In the first half of the Information Age, the primary focus was the technology itself; this is where great fortunes were made by companies like IBM and Microsoft,” said Mark Raskino, vice president and Gartner Fellow. “In this period, the majority of companies that gained competitive advantage did so by differential access to the technology from these providers — for example, by having more capital to invest in it or better skills at installing it in their businesses.

“In the second half of the age, as technology becomes ubiquitous, consumerized, cheaper and more equally available to all, the focus for differentiation moves to exploitation of the technology and to the information it processes,” askino said.

“It is already noticeable that the great fortunes of the second half of the age are being made by companies like Google and Facebook, which are not traditional makers of technology. In this period, the majority of companies that enjoy competitive advantage will gain it from a differential ability to see and exploit the opportunities of new kinds of information.”

In the report, “Strategic Information Management for Competitive Advantage,” (http://www.gartner.com/resId=1851616) Gartner identified four particular types of generally useful information likely to dominate competition this decade, in the way that process information and customer information did in the past 15 years:

o  Location information, which is now maturing in availability, will offer opportunities to better optimize the utilization of almost any movable physical asset (human or inanimate) in almost any business.
o  Sustainability information will be vital in advancing business models in industries that are adapting to the realities of a finite Earth meeting the demands of massive, consumerizing emerging markets.
o  DNA information and the rapidly falling cost of obtaining it will obviously be critical to innovation and productivity leaps in agriculture, medical care and pharmaceuticals, but it will also impact insurance and other sectors.
o  Social graph information will help companies “X-ray” and understand organization, team design, culture and other factors impacting knowledge worker productivity, yielding valuable insights to advance the intellectual service economy the way time and motion study did for manufacturing in the 20th century.

Beyond these, context, gesture, the live state of everyday objects (Internet of Things), inherent identity (untagged, image-recognition-based), human emotional state and even brain response to stimuli are all new types of information that are at the radar’s edge or are starting to be brought into play within businesses.

In the Gartner Special Report, “Seizing Competitive Advantage: New Opportunities in IT” (http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/competitive-advantage/), Gartner analysts examine the key issues around seizing a new competitive advantage by revitalizing leadership, management and culture, and leveraging “big culture technologies.”

Gartner defines “competitive advantage” as a difference between a company and its competitors that matters to customers. It is one of the two key components of corporate profitability:

1.  Industry structure: This determines the range of profitability of the average competitor and can be very difficult to change.
2.  Competitive advantage: This enables a company to outperform the average competitor.

“The Gartner view of competitive advantage is about leadership — that is, how does an organization gain a leadership position from the tools, capabilities and competencies at its disposal? The focus is not on doing something merely to be competitive, but rather on taking action to be the leader,” said Jorge Lopez, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.

“Competitive advantage cannot be sustained other than by ceaselessly pursuing new ways to compete, and changing one’s culture to match the new needs,” Mr. Lopez said.

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Google’s Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 as the world’s most popular browser edition.

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Support or Near Field Communications reached a new peak this year, say analysts who expect demand for mobile payment capabilities to spike.

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AMD still may not be able to claim the top-performing desktop processor, but it’s gunning for the title of fastest graphics card for your PC with its newest board. The Radeon HD 7970 is based on the new 28nm “Tahiti” manufacturing process and sports a brand-new architecture.
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