Survey Finds Many Smartphone Owners Open to Targeted Ads

Compete has shared some data from its Smartphone Intelligence survey. The findings indicate that smartphone owners prefer personal and social apps, and that they're open to targeted ads. According to Compete, entertainment, games, music, social networking, and weather are the most popular app categories across all platforms. Findings include:

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An In Depth Look at Twitter’s New Terms of Service

I know it may appear I go looking for trouble, but I promise you I just like to share with you my concerns. In the case of Twitter’s update to its Terms of Service, I started thinking about what the changes could mean to us users.

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Americans Turn To The Internet To Forget The Economy

Americans who go online for economic information are also using the Internet to take their minds off of the recession, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Pew identified a group it calls "online economic users" which includes 69 percent of all American adults and 88 percent of all Internet users.

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Facebook Shows a Glimpse of Twitterness

Update: Facebook Lite is available in the US and India now. It can be found at lite.facebook.com. Original Article: Facebook confused some users when it accidentally invited too many people to a beta test of what is being referred to as "Facebook Lite." Facebook Lite is basically a stripped down verson of the social network, which includes just status updates, likes, and comments, without things like activity…

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Yahoo Debuts New Mail Features

Update: Yahoo turned on the following apps in Yahoo Mail today: Evite, Pingg and drop.io. Original Article: Yahoo made a few announcements today. Among them were new versions of Search, Messenger, and Mail. You can read about Search and Messenger here and here respectively. Now let's talk about the new Yahoo Mail.

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