Worldwide mobile app revenue to reach $15.1 billion - February 3, 2011
Technology research services firm Gartner, Inc., US, recently released a report titled 'Forecast: Mobile Application Stores, Worldwide, 2008-2014'. According to the report, worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011. This is a 117 percent increase… Read More
New study shows how MFDs are changing consumer book reading habits - February 1, 2011
In a recent study to understand how portable, multi-function devices or MFDs (iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android devices, etc) are changing consumer book reading habits. Consumers who utilised these devices expressed a tremendous affinity for them, struggling to come up with any significant shortcomings to reading ebooks on them. These consumers… Read More
Universities and colleges need to make online learning a central part of their strategies to stay competitive, says report - January 28, 2011
The Online Learning Task Force (OLTF), which includes JISC's chair Professor Tim O'Shea, has published a new report, according to which, universities and colleges need to make online learning a central part of their strategies if they are to stay competitive globally.… Read More
Sideways report suggests ways to leverage business opportunities from tablet devices - January 27, 2011
Sideways, a US-based software company that transforms books, magazines and other publications into content for mobile devices, has released a white paper, "Evolving Beyond Print: Taking Advantage of the New Tablet Communication Channel." The paper outlines the success and adoption of tablet devices, tablet user demographics… Read More
Use of social media growing significantly among Inc. 500 companies, says new study - January 25, 2011
The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth recently conducted a study on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations. The new study revisits the Center's study of Inc. 500 social media usage for the fourth consecutive year, purportedly making it a… Read More
Ignoring previous research is rampant and unethical, says John Hopkins study - January 24, 2011
The vast majority of already published and relevant clinical trials of a given drug, device or procedure are routinely ignored by scientists conducting new research on the same topic, a new Johns Hopkins study has suggested. Johns Hopkins researchers further say failure to consider existing evidence is both unscientific and… Read More
Economic woes increasing library use, says OCLC membership report - January 21, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has released a report, which says Americans are using libraries a lot more as the economic downturn has impacted lives, careers and incomes. The report, titled 'Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community', is a follow-up to the 2005 Perceptions of… Read More
Professional publishing journal revenues grew 3 percent in 2010, says Simba Report - January 20, 2011
Media industry and forecast analysis firm Simba Information, US, has released a report titled 'Global Professional Publishing 2009-2010'. According to the report, scientific, technical, medical, legal and business journals - an $8.9 billion market that represents over 20 percent of the entire professional publishing industry -… Read More
RIN releases concluding part of report on e-journals use by researchers - January 19, 2011
The UK's Research Information Network (RIN) has released the final report of a two-part study that looks at how researchers in the UK use electronic journals; the value they bring to universities and research institutions; and the contribution they make to research productivity, quality and outcomes.… Read More
IDC report projects media tablet sales of 17 million units in 2010 - January 19, 2011
The worldwide media tablet market grew 45.1 percent in the third quarter of 2010, driven almost exclusively by global demand for Apple's iPad, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and e-Reader Tracker. Vendors shipped 4.8 million units globally in the quarter,… Read More
