CHART OF THE DAY: People Are Spending More Time In Mobile Apps Than On The Web (AAPL, GOOG)

People are spending more time inside mobile applications on average than they are on the web, according to an analysis from Flurry, a mobile analytics firm.

Flurry measures the time people spend in apps through its own direct analytics. It got numbers for the web using public data from comScore and Alexa. The analysis is somewhat imperfect, but even if you judge it solely on a directional basis you can see mobile apps are consuming more and more time.

So what are people doing in those apps? Gaming and social networking, which absorb 79% of people's time, according to Flurry. The rest is news, entertainment, and other apps.

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Comment on We Are Spending More Money With Amazon by tom

om, i enjoy reading most of your columns. but this is a sad one. i think what you're referring to is what some people call 'the Wal-Mart' effect. everything's cheaper and available in one place - and if we skip ahead a few steps, then all that's available is what Amazon or Wal-Mart sells. and for those of us who sell items to Amazon, it's become a very bleak proposition. because of how you describe the situation. Amazon loves to trot out similar responses and use them to hit people over the head with regard to selling terms. and don't even get me started on sales tax. want your roads fixed, more police officers, maybe a public school in your neighborhood. don't live in a state that has cut a deal with Amazon so they don't have to pay sales tax on items they've sold. but all those retailers where you go to look at stuff and then end up buying it on Amazon - they collect sales tax in the community they're located in. you're a smart guy. think a little more about what you're giving up for 'your convenience.' cheers!

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Comment on We Are Spending More Money With Amazon by Mark

It seems to me, it's possible that Prime is perhaps the single greatest loyalty program ever. It causes us all to buy more from Amazon, to tolerate slightly higher prices from Amazon than we might from another merchant, to seek out Amazon just to find out if they carry the goods we are after. I cannot imagine ever shopping online again in a Prime-free world. I am assuming they make good money from me even if they are no longer making money from me on shipping.

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Comment on We Are Spending More Money With Amazon by Jeff

Amazon Prime is far worse than what you've written because it teaches you to expect your purchases in 1-2 days for very little. When Amazon doesn't have something, you feel very irritable because it means you're either a) waiting a lot longer than usual or b) end up buying the same item in a store for much more. It's also a logistical marvel that they can ship things to you in one business day for only $4 more. Whoever came up with Amazon Prime is a genius.

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DEATH OF EMAIL WATCH: young people are spending much less time on email.

DEATH OF EMAIL WATCH: young people are spending much less time on email.

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DEATH OF EMAIL WATCH: young people are spending much less time on email.

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IT Spending Will Rise in 2011

There's always next year. A new Wedbush survey reported on by ZDNet suggests that IT managers will have deeper pockets in 2011, and stalled projects will start to get off the ground. The survey of 100 IT management decision makers found that: 

Sixty-six percent of IT execs say that implementation of new software platforms were critical, up from 47 percent in the second quarter survey. SaaS, collaboration, HR and ERP projects are all in demand and rated high priority projects. Potential winners: Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, Oracle, and SAP.

Forty-seven percent are upgrading to the latest Microsoft Exchange and 23 percent are rolling out partial deployments. The big reason is Exchange support for multiple devices.

Network deployments such as security, routing/switching, collaboration and performance management are all rated a top priority. Video and voice collaboration were also seen as critical projects by 61 percent of respondents. Winners may include Cisco and Polycom on that front.

52 percent said that shifting data warehouse projects to appliance deployments was a big priority. Oracle's Exadata machine was rated a high priority by 45 percent of respondents.

Each one of these bullet points hints at possible IT employment trends in the coming months. As always, networking, virtualization, and cloud-based implementations seem to be top of mind for IT going into 2011.

 -- Don Willmott

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