Sherry Taylor

Could you live without IT for 24 hours?

Eighty-two-percent of respondents to a recent survey said they could NOT live without certain ones of these for even 24-hours —- smart phone apps.

SMARTPHONE USERS SAY THEY WOULD RATHER GIVE UP WATER THAN MOBILE APPS: In a new survey from the company Apigee, researchers find that of about 760-smartphone users surveyed, 85-percent said they would rather go without water than their mobile apps. Eighty-two-percent of respondents said there are certain apps they couldn’t live without for even 24-hours– 57-percent identified e-mail as their vital app, while 41-percent named Facebook and 31-percent said alarm clock apps. The survey covered smartphone owners in the U.S., UK, Germany, France, and Spain. (Mashable)

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