Students with smartphone study often

Based off a recent study from online student assistance site StudyBlue, students with access to smartphones study material for classes approximately 40 minutes more per week than students without access to a smartphone. This figure was tabulated from the combined data of nearly one million StudyBlue users over the Fall 2011 semester. Students are most likely to use the smartphone for studying while commuting or when at school or work.  Approximately half the students use the application to study when going to bed or just waking up as well as when standing in line. Nineteen percent use a smartphone for studying while in the bathroom and 17 percent study while exercising. 

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10 ways by which we can customize our Technology

 

The technology we buy isn’t particularly unique in and of itself, but thanks to several customization tools and services we can easily add our unique style. These are our ten favorite ways to customize your computers and smartphones, both inside and out.

Apple Shares rises

Apple Shares Rise

After a modest selloff, Apple shares are trading higher today following the death of Steve Jobs, the company’s visionary chairman and co-founder. They opened at $373.33 and slipped briefly to $372 before rising again — almost as if in tribute — and heading upward past $384.

Clearly, the sentiment that Jobs created a company and culture that will continue to innovate and succeed in his absence is widely held among investors. As Jobs wrote in his Aug. 24 resignation letter, “I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it.” Evidently the market agrees. To wit, the flood of analysts’ notes this morning reaffirming confidence in the company:

Scott Kessler, Standard & Poor’s
One could argue that Jobs was the most celebrated innovator and businessperson of our time, and his loss to AAPL is immeasurable. Nonetheless, we think he created a company and culture that will continue to innovate and succeed, with countless executives and employees who will carry on. We think AAPL was largely prepared for this loss.

Thoughts on the First Day of Apple’s Era Without Jobs

Tribute to Steve Jobs

According to the social media measurement firm Sysomos, as of midnight Eastern time, the number of Tweets mentioning Steve Jobs had reached 1.4 million, and as many as 11,000 news articles had been written about his passing and his legacy.

That legacy — and his influence on the lives of people around the world — is inestimable, and we will be talking about him and his amazing, interesting life a great deal in the coming days and weeks.

A Tribute to Steve Jobs may his soul R.I.P

The death of Steve Jobs on Wednesday evoked grief and mourning all over the world, especially at focal points like the Apple campus in Cupertino, Jobs’s home in Palo Alto, Calif., and Apple Stores around the world. Here are some selected shots from across the Web.

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iOS5 set to release on October 12th.

Apple finally committed to a release date for the next version of their mobile OS. iOS 5 will be released on October 12th. If you can’t wait eight more days and don’t have a developer account, get iOS 5’s best features right now 

But the wait won’t be that long. iOS 5 will be officially available next Wednesday, and developers will likely see a golden master release even sooner.

Schmidt:Google won’t screw up Android

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Though its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility will put Google in the business of making smartphones, the search giant says other manufacturers of Android-powered handsets have nothing to fear. Motorola Mobility will be given no advantages over any other Android hardware partner.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said the company won’t allow its new ties with Motorola to spoil relations with its existing partners.

“The Android ecosystem is the No. 1 priority, and that we won’t do anything with Motorola, or anybody else by the way, that would screw up the dynamics of that industry,”Schmidt told Bloomberg. “We need strong, hard competition among all the Android players. We won’t play favorites in the way people are concerned about.”

But if anyone else attempts to scew with those industry dynamics, watch out. Schmidt says Google Motorola is happy to use Motorola’s significant patent portfolio to protect the Android ecosystem.

Oracle Launches Exalytics Machine

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In a way, you could sort of see how the mishegas that has gone on between Oracle and Autonomy over the last few days was leading up to some larger purpose. For Oracle, that is. It’s not every day that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison deliberately provokes a very public fight with another company that results in back-and-forth press releases, leaked emails, publication of previously confidential PowerPoint slides and so on.

But apparently it all did lead up to something. For those just tuning in, here’s how it all went down.

About two weeks ago, on Oracle’s quarterly earnings conference call, Ellison was asked by an analyst about Oracle’s position in the market for analyzing and pulling useful intelligence unstructured data — transcripts of videos and contents of emails, and scores of other things that aren’t neatly arranged in databases. It’s kind of a big deal as companies grapple with the so-called “big data” problem, and the question was a natural jumping-off point to discussing Hewlett-Packard’s $11.7 billion acquisition of Autonomy. Ellison, by way of an answer, portrayed unstructured data as a feature of the existing Oracle database software, and “nothing new,” and then slammed HP for paying too much for Autonomy, the British software firm whose specialty happens to be — you guessed it — unstructured data. And, oh, by the way, Ellison said he took pass on Autonomy when it had been shopped to Oracle because he thought the price was too high.

Facebook’s Brand of Loyalty

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Companies have spent the past few years trying to amass Facebook fans for their products and services. Now they’re trying to figure out how to squeeze value out of them.

That’s prompting marketing companies to develop new offerings that seek out more detailed information about Facebook fans, with the aim of sending targeted messages, offers and promotions.

Merkle Inc., Lithium Technologies Inc. and other marketing companies are helping companies build applications for consumers to download on Facebook, which will allow customers to access a

2012: A 107 Million iPhone Year?

Another bullish prediction ahead of Apple’s Tuesday iPhone event: The company will ship 84 million iPhones this year and 27 percent more the next.

That’s the word from Janney Capital Markets analyst Bill Choi, who believes that new carrier agreements and international expansion will push iPhone sales as high as 107 million in 2012.