More Tweets From Mobile Devices

Since April this year, the number of people using Twitter has risen 27 percent from 106 million to 145 million.

The driving force behind the growth has been the addition of clients that make mobile access easier.

"We quickly understood that we were doing users a disservice by not having a great client on each of the major mobile platforms," said Twitter's CEO, Evan Williams. "So, we took a similar approach with Twitter for BlackBerry and Twitter for Android."

Twitter's mobile site, mobile.twitter.com, was used by 14 percent of users and Twitter's SMS option was used by eight percent of users. Twitter iPhone apps represented eight percent of usage and the BlackBerry app represented seven percent of usage.

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iPad headed to Target?

Will the Apple iPad be sold in Target for the Christmas selling season?

iPad headed to Target on October 3rd? -- Engadget

E.U. Wants to Release Local TV Spectrum to Mobile

The European Commission is poised to back a plan that would divert a portion of the TV broadcast spectrum to mobile operators by 2013.

The proposal is part of a package of broadband changes drafted by Neelie Kroes, the E.U. commissioner for telecommunications, that would require the 27 members of the bloc to set aside the 800 megahertz frequency band for mobile broadband by Jan. 1, 2013.

E.U. to Back Plan for Pan-Euro:

Goulsby Cannot Say When Unemployment Will Fall Appreciably

Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, has no idea, or "won't say" when unemployment will move appreciably below 10 percent.

Our Government Is Now So Huge That It's Choking The Private Sector

Bigger government leads to slower growth, this chartfor France suggests.

It shows the ratio of the private sector to the public sector and relates it to growth. The correlation is high.

That is not to say that the best environment for growth is a zero government. There is clearly a role for government, but government does cost and that takes money from the productive private sector.

Our Government Is Now So Huge That It's Choking The Private Sector

U.S. Users Spend More Time on Facebook Than Google

"U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc.
In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, comScore said Thursday, about 9.9 percent of their Web-surfing minutes for the month. That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes, or 9.6 percent, people spent on all of Google Inc.'s sites combined, including YouTube, the free Gmail e-mail program, Google news and other content sites.

The Associated Press: Facebook inches past Google for Web users' minutes

Brazil Presents the Highest Mobile Broadband Penetration in Latin America, Finds Frost & Sullivan - Yahoo! Finance

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