Trends:

Social Media and Young Adults (Pew Internet & American Life Project) If you are looking for good research on trends in consumers’ use of the Internet, one of the first places to look is the Pew Research ...

Functionall (Trendwatching) The people running the Trendwatching website do a real nice job finding different ways to look at things. As their name implies, they focus mostly on finding trends that ...

The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site (New York Times) The newspaper industry has been in steady decline for a number of years, and certainly the Internet can take credit for some ...

Garmin, TomTom Slash Prices Amid Google Threat (BusinessWeek) If five years ago you were sitting in a marketing strategy meeting at one of the leading companies in the GPS navigation device business ...

Airport Kiosks Do Nearly Everything but Check Luggage (Los Angeles Times) The mantra of many companies over the last 20 or so years has been “customers are our number one concern.”  To show they mean ...

AirTran Airways Puts Ads Where Passengers Can't Miss Them (Los Angeles Times) For many consumers advertising clutter abounds in mainstream media outlets such as television and print publications.  But ...

Marketers Salivating Over Smartphone Potential (USA Today) We posted last week about how marketers are finally seeing the light when it comes to mobile commerce, well here is another story addressing ...

Facebook, MySpace Divide Along Social Lines (NPR) While many over the age of 30 may view Facebook and MySpace as being essentially the same thing, the main users of these websites have a different view.  ...

M-Commerce's Big Moment (BusinessWeek) The promise of big things in mobile commerce has been talked about for many, many years – going back to the early cellphone days.  But finally with the evolution ...