Last Thursday, comScore released their 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report, which tracks the amount of digital media consumption on mobile devices, who is consuming that…
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OPLIN 4Cast #553: PCs, who needs them?
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I recently read a blog post – the first linked article below – by Benedict Evans that makes some interesting points about what we usually…
People don’t do very well with passwords. No matter how many times security experts warn us about using — and re-using — easily guessed passwords,…
If not, you have a problem. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has just released data collected in July 2015 from about 53,000 households…
The annual Cisco Visual Networking Index was released last week. We have blogged here about the VNI in the past – in fact, this is…
At the Code/Mobile conference this month, Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, announced that for the first time more Google searches were done this summer on…
Last Wednesday – while you were no doubt reading the 4cast – Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) presented her 20th annual report…
The Pew Internet folks released another of their surveys at the beginning of this month. This one is about U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015, and…
OPLIN 4cast #425: Deep links
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One of the fundamental building blocks of the World Wide Web has always been the hyperlink, the code that allows you to jump from web…
OPLIN 4cast #407: Jamming hotspots
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A couple of weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission fined the Marriott hotel chain $600,000, charging that they “…intentionally interfered with and disabled Wi-Fi networks…