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The Tablet Takeover: What It Means For Reaching Millennials

Posted by melanie | 02/01/12 | No Comments

Tablets were the top item on Millennials’ holiday wish lists — both young kids and older Millennials named the iPad as their most desired holiday gift. And many of them got what they wanted.

According to stats released last

The Great App Race On Campus

Posted by meredith | 02/17/11 | 1 Comment

This may just be the greatest gift to students since spell check: A new smartphone application that takes the grunt work out of citing books in academic papers. Quick Cite, a $0.99 app available for both iPhones and Android-based …

Best And Worst Of 2010: Tech

Posted by youth advisory board | 12/28/10 | 1 Comment

Ed Note: Our second helping of Year In Review coverage comes from Ypulse resident techie Bryan Spencer. Below Bryan shares his picks for this year’s hits and misses in youth tech trends.

Best and Worst of 2010: Technology

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Guest Post: Mobile Safety, Digital Literacy & Media Myths — Insights From FCC’s ‘Generation Mobile’ Forum

Posted by meredith | 12/15/10 | No Comments

Today’s Ypulse Guest Post comes from tween expert blogger Ms Twixt who reports back from the “Generation Mobile” forum on teens and technology held by the Federal Communication Commission in Washington, D.C. earlier this week. If you work in youth …

Social Media Rules: Holiday Shopping Edition

Posted by emma | 11/24/10 | 4 Comments

The economy may not be out of the woods just yet — but as positive signs go, a solid holiday shopping season’s a big one. Retailers are banking on this season seeing a huge growth in e-commerce sales, in particular: …

Guest Post: Three Tips NOT To Use When Using Mobile Tech With Teens

Posted by meredith | 11/10/10 | No Comments

Today’s Ypulse Guest Post is from Deb Levine, Executive Director and founder of sexual health nonprofit ISIS, Inc. Deb recently attended the mHealth Summit in Washington, DC. and came away somewhat disappointed with the panel on youth, mobile …

A Gen Y’er Buys The Buzz For Windows Phone 7

Posted by youth advisory board | 10/28/10 | No Comments

Ed. Note: When Microsoft pulled the plug on the Kin this summer to focus “exclusively” on Windows Phone 7, critics and anemic sales pointed to the real motivation behind the sudden strategy shift — a teen market that was just …

Ypulse Guest Post: Teen Hangouts 2.0: Timeless As Ever

Posted by meredith | 05/13/10 | No Comments

Today our Ypulse Guest Post comes from Robin Boyar, founder of thinktank research and strategy, on the growing number of teens and young adults discovering the appeal of location-based services. Adding to the joys of real-life gameplay we heard …

An App For Every Occasion [And Any Smartphone]

Posted by meredith | 03/17/10 | 1 Comment

Today’s second Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is from our resident techophile Michael Hayball on the apps he loves and why. Though the brand of smartphone (Google’s Android vs Apple’s iPhone) might put him in the minority, his apps of …

Foursquare Turns A Fun Night Out Into A Video Game IRL

Posted by meredith | 03/10/10 | 6 Comments

Today’s Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is from Chase Straight on the Gen Y appeal of Foursquare — the location-based mobile check-in service that’s been building buzz steadily for a while now (see the New York Times, reg. required, …