The new version, Office 2013, has plainly been created for mobile workers and consumers, using tablets and smartphones on the move as well as personal computers at their desks.
Washé, a Boca Raton-based service for on-demand washes, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business, which involves a mobile app consumers use to connect with Washé's network of around 1,000 licensed and insured car washing professionals.
The 50.4 percentage of smartphones represents growth of about three percent since December 2011, when 47.8percentt of mobile consumers were using smartphones.
Autonomous, social, app and mobile consumers are using more and more channels to contact organisations and, finally, organisations are starting to respond to this in a far more connected and co-ordinated way.
With millions of consumers using mobile devices to search for local products and services, merchants are looking to optimize their mobile presence.
"We have 100 million probes out there" in the form of consumers using mobile phones on the network, Mr. Lurie said.
"Further," they concluded, "there is no guarantee that this shift would be apparent to consumers using mobile payments systems to complete sales transactions".
We then sequentially applied exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to two samples (n=404; n=501) consisting of German consumers using mobile social media applications on their smartphones.
Instagram represents the iconic deal at the beginning of a new era of mobile computing, characterized by consumers using devices to capture and share their lives with each other, and having no need of desktops or laptops to do so.
The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is releasing a new study today that provides further evidence of the growing trend of consumers using mobile phones in stores for purchasing decisions.
