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Time Spent On PCs vs Smart Phones By Content Type, July 2012 [CHART]

eMarketer estimates that 1.7 billion people around the world will access the internet via a mobile device in 2013.

The overall online penetration rate in the U.S. has stabilized at 79 percent.

Social media captures 31% of smartphone internet time, compared to 18% of PC internet time.

While desktop and laptop computers accounted for 83% of total time spent online last year, that dropped by 10% points to 73% this year.

In Q3 2012, worldwide shipments of smart connected devices—a category that includes PCs, tablets and smartphones—increased by 27.1% year over year.

More than half of these US travelers purchased hotel reservations via laptop, while only 17% booked hotels via tablet, and 11% via smartphone.

More than three-quarters of US travelers had purchased travel on a PC in the past six months.

78% of 18-29-year-old social media users are very or extremely dependent on their mobile phones.

Most US smart phone users (60%) accessed the mobile web from their phone for less than an hour a day.

While mobile devices were a big influence on e-commerce sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, mobile phones haven’t performed well in paid search.