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• Mozilla’s default privacy patch on hold   17/05/13
• UK online sales grew by 16%   16/05/13
• Conversational search comes to the desktop   15/05/13
• Smartphones and tablets need different ad approaches   14/05/13
• ITU thinks there will be more mobile phones than people next year   10/05/13

Back in February, Mozilla upset many in the digital ad industry when it unveiled plans to include a default setting that disables third-party cookies in the Firefox browser.

The IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index recorded the a rise in UK online sales of 16%, compared to last April. Mobile commerce also continued to grow during the period, up by 131% year-on-year. The figures also show pureplay traders benefiting from a stronger lift than their multichannel rivals, continuing a trend detected last year.

Conversational search, using your voice is already a reality. Google has such an application for its Android and iOS apps , but now conversational search would be coming to the desktop within the Chrome browser, Google announced. Until now, you could search for things using your voice…but you couldn’t ask questions.

According to an industry analysis by Adobe Digital Index, mobile devices have changed the way consumers interact with businesses, making an understanding of the trends, strengths, and weaknesses of both tablets and smartphones important in serving mobile customers. In just three years, says the report, tablets have overtaken smartphones in the amount of traffic they drive.

There are 7.1 billion people on earth now, and 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions. The International Telecoms Union in the ITU World in 2013 report predicts that subscriptions will pass seven billion early in 2014. The report also found that around 40 % of the global population, or that 2.7 billion people are online.

Smartphones are not only used by adults and smartphones make online buying of apps and other things easy, whether you are an adult or a child.

According to InsightsOne, with Harris Interactive, Americans Are Fed Up With Bad Ads, and Europeans are probably not much different. 87% of American adults 18 and over say that they will ignore a company completely if they are shown too many irrelevant ads.