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…
Day: 31 March 2010
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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…
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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…
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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…