Mobile Minutes: Mobile Web; Facebook ballots; the Apple touch; Amaazon's shortcomings
Seventy-five percent of internet use in 2017 will
be mobile: report
Seventy-five percent of internet use will be mobile in 2017, up
slightly from this year, as a growing number of consumers around the world
access the web on smartphones and tablets, media buying agency Zenith forecast
this week.
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more at Reuters
What's on your ballot? Facebook will show you
SAN FRANCISCO ?
Facebook is making it easier for users to cast their vote with a new feature
that shows them who and what will be on their ballot.
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more at USA Today
Jony Ive talks about putting the Apple
"touch" on the MacBook Pro
Jony Ive says
thinking different is actually pretty easy.
I?m momentarily taken aback, given that Ive, Apple?s chief design officer since
1996, works at a company that?s long prided itself on its ?think different?
approach to everything from products and marketing to retail stores and
watchbands.
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more at CNET
Amazon Comes Up Short on Profits, Focusing on
Warehouses and Movies
SEATTLE ? For the last
several quarters, Amazon delighted investors by delivering something unusual
for the company: a bumper crop of
profits.
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more at the New York Times