Parks Associates estimates 48% of U.S. smartphone owners use apps for daily information and entertainment, while 15% use the phone to order food and 12% use it to shop for physical goods.
While more than half of the companies have mobile sites or use responsive design, only 56% serve any mobile-formatted content to smartphone searchers, according to Pure Oxygen's report. Some 45% serve smartphone searchers via a dedicated mobile site. Zero mobile sites comply with Google's mobile configuration requirements, and 11% target smartphone users via responsive design techniques.
From the article, "Mobile SEO Risks Force Brands To Comply With Google Changes" by Laurie Sullivan.
Parks Associates, a research firm, has released the results from its Apple iPhone Siri Users study, which finds that Siri is primarily used to make phone calls and send text messages. The report fo...
Parks Associates today announced Jeremy Eaton, VP & GM, Honeywell Smart Grid Solutions, Honeywell, and Kevin Meagher, VP, GM, Smart Home, Lowe's Companies, Inc., will deliver keynotes at the upcomi...
"I've had conversations with DirecTV, who said they are reluctant to spend money marketing a free service," said Brett Sappington, director-research at Parks Associates, a market-research and consu...
Today, 40% of smartphone owners already use digital assistants, according to a recent survey conducted by Parks Associates. Millennials are most likely to partake (46%), but -- as the technology co...
