Mobile E-Commerce Shoppers Revolution: Infographic

Nick Martin, Online Community Manager, Microsoft Tag, just pinged us about the infographic the Microsoft Tag team has posted to help you learn about the growth of mobile e-commerce, including how people are shopping on their phones, how many retailers have mobile sites (it's astonishingly small, considering over half of smartphone users would buy something from a mobile site), and which demographic makes purchases on their phones the most.

Mobile E-Commerce Shoppers Revolution: Infographic

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Comment on Is the iPad Launching the Two-Screen Revolution? by Jeff

What's wrong with general curiosity? Must there always be a motive? I don't own AAPLE stock, but it's always cool to know how many of these "useless devices" as everyone is calling the iPad, is selling...gives me a nice laugh at all the idiot fandroid drones that are out there.

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Apple's Mobile Payments Revolution May Have To Wait Another Year (AAPL, MA, V, GOOG)

Apple's mobile payments revolution may have to wait another year.

The Independent (via 9 to 5 Mac) reports that Apple has decided not to include near field communication (NFC) technology in this year's new iPhone after all:

"One source close to the discussions said: 'The new iPhone will not have NFC, Apple told the operators it was concerned by the lack of a clear standard across the industry'. Yet Apple is understood to be working on its own NFC proposition, which would link payments through iTunes. It hopes to introduce the technology in a handset likely to be released next year."

Mobile payments seem like the inevitable future, but Apple is okay to wait if its technology concerns are correct.

It's not like any of its competitors have any promising head-starts. Google, for example, has NFC in a few of its Android phones, but by no means has it caught on for any mainstream uses.

And note that the iPad 2, released this past weekend, doesn't have NFC, either.

Related: Here's What Apple Should Put In The Next Big iPhone Software Update

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Apple's Mobile Payments Revolution May Have To Wait Another Year (AAPL, MA, V, GOOG)

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Handheld Media Revolution: Insights on Tablet Development

Speakers: Evan Doll – Co-founder, Flipboard, William “Whurley” Hurley – Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Chaotic Moon Studios, Oren Jacob – CTO at Pixar, Executive Producer for Ready, Set, Bag., Moderator: Jason Preston I was extremely impressed with the panel, which included the founder of Flipboard, a hot iPad app for aggregating social info, the [...]

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Geospatial Revolution Episode Three from Penn State

Another fine video from Penn State (see http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/)… The third episode explores geospatial technology in the world of security: how new technologies help to broker peace, wage war, and fight crime but can also compromise personal privacy.

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Geospatial Revolution Episode Three from Penn State

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Comment on How OS X Lion Leads to the Next Computing Revolution by Laughing_Boy48

The Windows fanbois or maybe computer nerds in general hate not having total file access. It seems to be really important to them. I doubt if most consumers feel the same. I think they prefer not having to keep track of files and let the OS take care of that.

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Comment on How OS X Lion Leads to the Next Computing Revolution by Cyndy Aleo

Thanks for the note. The copy editor doesn't always get to articles before they are published.

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The Geospatial Revolution Project, Episode Two

The Map Room: The Geospatial Revolution Project, Episode Two

Harris Corporation Support Helps Launch Penn State's Geospatial Revolution

Media Project Harris Technologist Creates Opening Animation for Digital Mapping Education

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Exclusive: First Look at Siine, a Revolution in Text-Based Communication

As the world shifts to using more tablets, touchscreens and mobile devices as the point of access to the Web, there's an increasing need to rethink the keyboard. On smaller form factors, the traditional method of tap typing may no longer be the best way to enter text on a screen. Enter Siine, a semantically-based, intelligent interface that evolves the keyboard.

But this is no mere keyboard replacement "app," it's much more. It's a communication platform. A universal translator. A system that learns how you speak and then speaks for you. Siine is the future of text-based communication - or, at least that's what the company says.

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While that statement may or may not end up being true, it's wonderful to see a startup dreaming this big.

Not Just a Keyboard Replacement App

Several companies have already begun re-thinking the keyboard, including Swype, a keyboard replacement app which lets you drag your finger across the screen from letter to letter, and SwiftKey, which smartly suggests the word you may enter next (e.g. You type "t" and it suggests "the.")

When Siine first enters the market, it may be confused as a competitor to apps like these, because it will initially arrive as an Android Market application. But Android is just the beginning - Siine aims to be an app you use on all your screens, coming next to the iPhone, the iPad, tablet PCs and the Web.

So what is Siine, exactly? Well, it's a little curious. Operating in stealth mode until recently, the company is still short on details, leaving much to be revealed during its launch at November's Under the Radar conference, an event showcasing new startups.

What We Do Know: Semantics, Understanding, Translation

Here's what we do know: Siine is a communication tool that will eventually exist for any platform where you enter text into a little white box. Whether you're SMS'ing on your Android, typing on an iPad, tweeting from a basic messaging phone or surfing the Web.

Siine, unlike, say SwiftKey, doesn't just suggest words, it suggests the words you would say. For example, if you always sign off your text messages with "Cya!!!!!!!!!!!", Siine knows. If you say "like" all the time, Siine knows. If you use acronyms, Siine knows. It even knows what those acronyms mean. It even knows what acronyms mean in different languages. And it doesn't need to have giant dictionary-based databases on the backend to do all this because it uses semantics - a technology that enables the understanding of meanings and context of the words and phrases you use.

In short, Siine is like SwiftKey plus intelligence, semantics and the ability to understand you.

Business Model Still Flexible

For now, the company's business model is flexible - the company is in talks with several big-name handset manufacturers and mobile carriers, as well as VCs.

Siine's CEO Ed Maklouf's educational background plays well into the creation of a startup like this. While at Stanford, he studied Communications and Linguistics, so he has a better understanding of how people communicate with each other than the average entrepreneur. He and his small team have now put that knowledge into action in Siine and we're excited to take a look at what they've come up with.

Are you excited too? We thought so. In a couple of weeks, Siine will launch into private beta and we'll offer invites to our readers - stay tuned.

Above is the first and only image of Siine that the company is providing at the moment. It's notable for the fact that it doesn't look remarkably different than a standard keyboard. How does Siine turn that keyboard into a "revolutionary" new interface, exactly? We'll keep you posted.

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Can a Revolution be Tweeted?

Will the next revolution be tweeted? Yes! But it wont’ stop there. It will also be:

* Blogged    
* Emailed
* Photographed
* Filmed
* Texted
* Organized by phone – just reach out and touch someone.
* Written about in print – remember newspapers?
* And most importantly organized on the ground – good old fashion field organizing.

There’s been a ton of discussion in the blogosphere about Malcom Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted” in the New Yorker.

Gladwell says that effective activism is built on strong personal relationships, and the willingness to take real risks, not "Friends" online who just point and click on an action button to sign a petition.

Anil Dash of Expert Labs responded with his post "Make the Revolution" and said, “The traditional method sit-in and picket-in-the-streets form of protest is clearly a failure online." But he goes on to say Gladwell's lens on the issue is anachronistic. "There are revolutions, actual political and legal revolutions, that are being led online. They're just happening in new ways, and taking subtle forms unrecognizable to those who still want a revolution to look like they did in 1965."

Dash raises great points. In an ideal world, every point of contact a campaign would have with potential supporters would be so incredibly educational, meaningful and personal that these people would immediately become passionate, super activists. But that is not reality. Building a campaign or a revolution requires moving people up the ladder of activism. It requires an engagement strategy across multiple channels and it’s best to start with a small and easy action to hook potential supporters.

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Comment on BlackBerry Torch: An Evolution, Not a Revolution by Who Will Be Affected if Windows Phone Thrives?: Mobile «

[...] Motion. RIM is already seeing its once-dominant hold on the enterprise slip, and BlackBerry 6.0 has failed to live up to claims of being “a quantum leap” over newer, more advanced mobile operating systems. If [...]

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