Smartphones’ Popularity Creates Massive Data Challenges

By | Dec 28, 2012
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Smartphones’ Growing Popularity Creates Massive Data Challenges (via slashdot)

Smartphone owners are now the majority of mobile phone users, increasing from 49 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers at the beginning of the year to 56 percent in the third quarter, according to new data from Nielsen. “Google remained the top Web brand,” the firm wrote in a Dec. 20 blog posting, “…


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Mark Feffer is the Managing Editor of Dice. He started as a videotape editor back when there was videotape to edit, then joined the news desk at Dow Jones News/Retrieval, the company's first online product. He produced The Wall Street Journal's first multimedia CD-ROMs and published his novel, "September," in 2006. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, their fierce terrier, and a schnauzer who wonders why she ever left California. He's a member of the Project Management Institute.

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  1. BY Mathew says:
    | January 2, 2013

    This reminds me of a person on my local news the other night. Somehow they managed to rack up over $160,000 worth of data bills when they went overseas. All of that just in actual roaming, they didn’t even use the phone for anything lol

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