New findings from Experian Simmons show that mobile phones have fast become are an essential part of everyday life in the US, with nine out of 10 U.S. adults today using at least one mobile device and 35% of mobile phone users now paying $100 a month or more for service. Fully 87% of all…
Month: March 2010
News
UK leads Europe in Smartphone race
comScore released a study of the smartphone market in Europe showing that smartphone adoption in the EU5 (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown 32 percent versus a year ago to 51.6 million subscribers. Whilst growth can be seen across the range of monthly subscription fees, the mid to low tier is growing faster than…
News
Twitter not dead yet
Twitter has a reputation of being a broadcast medium, with just a few users twittering and everyone following, but new figures from Sysomos seem to show that those silent users are starting to get a little noisier. Sysomos looked at over a billion tweets made in the last four months and found that the number…
Comment
Orange new tarriffs yawn fest
The mobile internet has slowly been bubbling to the surface in the UK for quite some time and it’s been interesting to see how the mobile networks deal with it. Orange has ignored the Internet, and in fact did everything in their power to make sure that their mobile users had a hard time getting…
News
eBay to sell over $1.5 billion worth of goods on mobile in 2010
eBay has announced that it is on track to reach a whopping $1.5 billion worth of goods sold via mobile phones in 2010 – more than double the mobile GMV (gross merchandise value) it registered in 2009 ($600 million). The company claims its primary iPhone app, which is available in more than 190 countries and…
News, Video
iPhone gamers spend a packet
DFC Intelligence has released the results of a survey of how much money iPhone and iPod touch owners spending on games, and how often, and not surprisingly – games being one of the most popular categories on the app store – it’s a fairly hefty amount. The survey “Consumer Trends in Virtual Goods and Downloadable…
Events
Mobile 2.0 Europe 2010
Mobile 2.0 Europe 2010 conference and exhibition has announced dates and location for this year’s bash. It’s June 16th and 17th 2010 at the Palau de Congressos de Barcelona, home of the largest industry events including the Mobile World Congress. A two-day event is scheduled to explore the emerging Mobile Ecosystem and Disruptive Mobile Innovation,…
News
Apple to launch personal advertising network
Apple is expected to reveal the first fruit from its purchase of ad network Quattro. The new personalised, mobile advertising system humourlessly described as the iAd by newswire Online Media Daily is expected to be officially unveiled to the madmen of Madison Avenue on April 7th. The ad platform has been described as “revolutionary” and…
Analysis, News
Nokia buys Novarra
Nokia has signed an agreement to acquire transcoding business Novarra and intends to initially embed the technology into Nokia Series 40 devices and that’s not good news, especially for any one who has invested time and effort in creating a purpose built mobile site. According to the Novarra’s mobile browser and services platform will be…
Analysis, News
Gartner’s top ten mobile technologies to watch
Analysts Gartner has identified 10 mobile technologies that they say organisations need to look at over the next 12 months, as they will evolve significantly in ways that will impact short-term mobile strategies and policies. The report “Ten Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010 and 2011“. According to Gartner the 10 mobile technologies to watch…
News
Opera turns into a cash cow for operators?
In the latest Opera State of the Mobile Web Report Opera show that Opera Mini generates nearly $1.25 billion per year for mobile operators in just the top 10 countries for Opera Mini. With the United States leading the way with Opera Mini generating more than $146 per user per year. Big numbers at last!…
News
Give your users a choice
According to research from CrowdScience when it comes to smartphones, choice is the best way to create loyal consumers. Unfortunately as CrowdScience points out this also applies to businesses, and the default business phone “the crackberry” may actually be harming the Blackberry brand. Researcher found that 60% of consumers who had some choice in their…
News
Mobile subscribers pass 4.35 billion mark
ABI Research figures show global mobile subscription numbers surpassed 4.35 billion by the end of 2009, with a YoY growth of 10.4%. ABI also predict that a staggering 80% of the world’s population will be using mobile phones by early 2014. Mobile subscriptions slowed perceptibly in the first half of 2009 as emerging markets took…
News
Data traffic surpasses voice and it’s Facebooks fault
At last it’s happened, the internet on mobile is bigger than the voice on mobile. According to Ericsson mobile data surpassed voice on a global basis during December of 2009. Ericsson’s findings show that data traffic globally grew 280% during each of the last two years, and is forecast to double annually over the next…
News
Mobile networks mimic fixed line – no really, they do!!
I was about to file Sandvine’s latest report “Mobile Networks Mimic Fixed Line ” under the stating the obvious section of the site, aka the trash. But I thought better of it as unbelievably there are people out there who think that mobile networks are a law unto themselves, and who for some reason think…
News
Smartphones almost mainstream
AdMob’s latest Mobile Metrics Report monthly figures out today show a phenomenal rise in Smartphone usage on the AdMob network in the last year. According to AdMob’s February 2010 figures smartphones now account for around 48 percent of AdMob’s worldwide traffic. That’s up from 35 percent in February 2009. AdMob put the rise down to…
Comment
Why no WiMAX in the UK?
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse had some really interesting things to say about WiMAX and 4G and the future of mobile at CTIA http://www.bmob.co.uk/2010/03/24/the-future-is-4g/ and what he said just made me really annoyed. But I wasn’t annoyed because what he said was right or wrong, it made me annoyed because a lot of the early…
News
The future is 4G
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse had some really interesting things to say about WiMAX and 4G at CTIA. He said his company’s bet on Clearwire and mobile WiMAX over LTE was necessary, and that the technology will help spark a revolution in the mobile industry. Hesse took part in a chat with CTIA President and…
News, Video
Windows Phone 7 Series videos
Curious about what Windows Phone 7 will look like? No we weren’t either, but someone must be, as Microsoft have finally this week released a Windows Phone 7 Series promotional video, and to be honest it’s actually managed to get us interested. In the video Microsoft gives a quick guide to their new operating system…
News
Why the Mobile Web is Disappointing End-Users
Web performance company Gomez has launched a recent survey of 1001 mobile Web users and it should make essential reading for any mobile developer. The survey “Why the Mobile Web is Disappointing End-Users” also revealed how unsatisfactory mobile Web experiences can negatively shape a consumer?s opinion of an organization. The survey found that users have…