Pew: More Than Half Of Adults Used Cell Phones In Stores For Purchasing Decisions During The Holidays
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. Pew says that more than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell phones while they were in a store to seek help with purchasing decisions this past holiday shopping season. According to the report, 38% of cell owners used their phone to call a friend while they were in a store for advice about a purchase they were considering making And 24% of cell owners used their phone to look up reviews of a product online while they were in a store, with 25% of adult cell owners using their phones to look up the price of a product oSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Siq14SMWziE/
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I've published eight books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), one comic book, and the last two I've self-published. In this post I give 
William Gibson is the defining author of our digital age. More than any social media pundit or Popcorn futurist, he has defined the dystopia we can expect once we escape the dystopia we're in now. His fiction - a trilogy of trilogies that works backwards from the distant future to a world that is ours - is constantly approaching the present while exploring what it means to exist in a culture mediated by electronics. Although his early work owes more to Burroughs and Verne than anyone cares to admit, he was wildly prescient in his prediction that soon we would see the entire world - an entire world - through the lens of gadgetry. While the web isn't cyberspace yet and the East Coast isn't the Sprawl, we're headed in that direction. And that's just his fiction. Gibson's non-fiction writing is a peanut in the bland Cracker Jack of the dead tree publications where they first appeared. He's often graced the otherwise leaden pages of Wired with his unique style and many of the pieces in this book appeared elsewhere, whether in magazines or at public talks. His non-fiction is rare enough that we definitely want more, but do we want a whole book's worth?
