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College Students Work Without a Wire

August 19th, 2008

The future is here, and it favors mobility over all else.

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Article excerpt:   Epitomizing the mobile lifestyle. Today’s collegians are becoming road warriors, ditching their desktop PCs for laptops and mobile phones.  Seven out of 10 US college students surveyed in August 2008 owned a laptop, while student desktop PC ownership dropped from more than [...]

Google Push to Sell Ads On YouTube Hits Snags

July 15th, 2008

Poor Google.  It can’t monetize YouTube.  Will this be its albatross?

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Article excerpt:  Wringing ad revenue from YouTube is proving to be a challenge for Google Inc. Although users of the popular video-sharing site view clips more than one billion times on most days, the site hasn’t been as popular with big corporate advertisers. World-wide [...]

Online Video Viewing Still Rising

May 19th, 2008

83 videos PER USER watched during March.  I think we can safely say that people will watch video online.  But what kind of video?

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Article excerpt:  But how much? Internet users in the US watched 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, up 13% over February 2008 and 64% over March 2007, according [...]