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According to research by Microsoft, 75 percent of the people who were polled plan to take their laptop with them, versus 70 percent for their smartphone. The number one thing people do on their laptop while on vacation is share their adventures on social networking sites. Other top features include gathering information, getting directions, and playing games and movies.

Speaking of movies, Microsoft’s study claims that 57 percent of the people who were polled admit to looking at the screen of another person’s laptop while they are on a plane. The biggest reason for doing so is seeing what movie or TV show that person might be watching.

Just how ubiquitous are smartphones becoming? More than a billion such devices will be sold in the year 2014, according to a Credit Suisse estimate. By the same year, the market for cloud-based mobile apps will have increased by 90% compared to 2009. By 2016, analysts predict there will be 10 billion connected mobile devices in use globally, and smartphone traffic will be 50 times what it is today.

Apps are moving to cloud for three primary reasons, according to a survey of IT executives: accessibility to data from multiple devices, lower cost and increased speed for businesses.

Publishing your own book, it’s the new writing a blog post…

Mobile Safari is the fastest growing browser and other stats in this infograph.

While giving away services for free may seem to be a risky move for businesses, recent data is proving otherwise. Mobile analytic firm Flurry found that freemium games generated more profit than paid games. There is a simple reason for this success, according to Phil Libin, CEO of freemium note-taking and archiving software service Evernote.

“The easiest way to get 1 million people paying is to get 1 billion people playing,” Libin said.

The basic idea of getting as many people as possible to use a service is a large part of the success of freemiums, but allowing people to get a free test drive before making a purchase is the biggest reason behind that success. Customers, however, are not willing to pay for just any old service. In particular, the infographic by Mavenlink found that customers are willing to pay for things such as unlimited services, support, add-ons and greater data storage after testing the free versions of products.

By conservative estimates, emerging markets are projected to account for 2/3rds of the world’s output by 2030.

Thanks to HighTable for sending this one through.

Women like Pinterest, men like Reddit.

A recap of 100 beautiful slides from the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2012. @jessedee consistently marvels with the design of his presentations.

TED has become notorious across the globe as one of the most innovative conferences of idea distribution. Standing for Technology, Education and Design, TED has opened millions of minds to a different outlook on a number of subjects. With speakers like Malcolm Gladwell, Jamie Oliver and hundreds more – TED has a specific way of cornering the greatest minds on earth. Now, with the TEDx independent conference, TED has been able to spread their brand across hundreds of countries and thousands of cities.

Dan Zarrella, the self titled social media scientist has collected data on more than 1.3 million posts published on the top 10,000 pages to put together this infographic to help you get more likes, comments and shares on your Facebook posts.

6 major companies are dictating about 90% of the media we have access to. In less than 30 years the number of companies providing us with our media has dropped from 50 to just 6. The six companies consisting of GE, New-corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS. If your wondering who owns the major networks its CBS of course, GE owns NBC, News-corp owns fox, and Disney owns ABC.

42% of Americans are using social media to shop – this equates to nearly 95 million social shoppers in the U.S. – and that number continues to rise. In fact, when asked how often social media is used to shop today versus a year ago, almost 73% of people confirmed they are using it more.

SocialShop – a national quantitative and qualitative research study conducted by Leo Burnett and Arc Worldwide – looks at social media usage from the eyes of a shopper to understand the influence each respective platform has on a person’s buying behavior.

Within SocialShop, Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide researchers identified six shopper archetypes reflecting the needs and habits of today’s social shoppers. Take a look at the SocialShop infographic below to identify where you fall as a social shopper.