Multi-Screen Mania: How Our Devices Work Together  Tue,
09/04/2012 - 6:23am With more devices at our disposal, users are
finding ways to spread out their tasks between screens, moving
from smartphones to PCs and tablets. That’s one of the findings
of a new multi-screen study by Google.   • Working between
devices      It turns out that 90 percent of people move between
devices to accomplish a task, with virtually all of those people
completing their task in one day. The most popular starting
point is the smartphone, which is used to gather information,
shop online and engage in social networking. In most cases, the
tasks are continued on a PC though tablets are also becoming a
popular option for continuing social networking and watching
videos. Shopping, for example, is a popular task, with 67
percent of respondents moving from screen to screen to complete
a purchase.      PCs are becoming the workhorse for more complex
duties such as planning a trip and managing finances. About 30
percent of those tasks are