How People Use Mobile, Social Networks and Apps to Get and Share Local News
Nearly half (47%) of American adults get at least some local news and information via their smartphones or tablet computers.
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Nearly half (47%) of American adults get at least some local news and information via their smartphones or tablet computers.
Mobile phones have become a near-ubiquitous tool for information-seeking and communicating: 83% of American adults own some kind of cell phone and they use them for a variety of activities.
A quarter of smartphone users go online mostly using their mobile device.
Among internet users, 4% use a service such as Foursquare or Gowalla to share their location with friends online.
In the year following the official end of the recent recession, the unemployment rate for immigrant workers fell 0.6 percentage points, while for native-born workers it rose 0.5 percentage points.
While cell phone ownership remained stable, usage of eight cell phone applications grew significantly over the past year among cell owners.
Young adults are significantly more likely than those in other age groups to engage in all cell phone applications.
A majority of Americans have logged onto the internet with a wireless connection.
Nearly half of African Americans have gone online with a handheld device, helping to offset traditional lower levels of internet access among blacks.
While teenagers lagged well behind adults in cell phone ownership in 2004, today nearly as many teens (71%) as adults (77%) own a cell phone.
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