O2 has has made it’s foray into the embedded laptop market with exclusive versions of the new ultra-thin Asus UL30A laptop and the Samsung N150 netbook. Customers signing up to the new deals will benefit from inclusive Wi-Fi through BT Openzone and The Cloud, an extended two year warranty, 30 days O2 Techies support, McAfee…
Month: April 2010
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iPhone is now the number three device for Opera
Opera’s monthly State of the Mobile Web report includes an iPhone preview and in just two weeks iPhone users have moved to the third-most popular handset for Opera Mini users worldwide. The release of the iPhone also looks like it will change the top 10 list, as according to preliminary numbers, the United States may…
News
Nexus not a great seller and iPhone OS takes a dive?
New figures from AdMob’s monthly ad round up http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Mar-10.pdf show that the Google Nexus has been a bit of a damp squib when compared to any of it’s sister Android devices, accounting for just 2% of all adverts to Android devices. However at the operating system level Android is making real inroads into Apple’s lucrative…
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What are people looking at on mobile?
Mobile Commerce have published a short white paper on mobile search snappily entitled ‘Mobile Search: What are people searching for and how do they search for it’ which shows how mobile search affects search bidding, natural mobile internet and web results and shows how mobile sites can be monetised by adding a search box and…
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Twitter sends 1bn sms a month and buys the company sending them
Twitter has bought out its SMS partner Cloudhopper for an undisclosed amount. The start up has been working with Twitter to build Twitter’s SMS messaging service and as of Friday April 23 it is now part of the messaging community. Cloudhopper, a messaging infrastructure company has enabled Twitter to connect directly to mobile carrier networks…
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Blockbuster launches mobile promotional scheme
Creaking video chain Blockbuster has dragged some of its hulk into the 21st century with a mobile promotional voucher. The solution produced by Commidea and Eagle Eye Solutions allows the video rental company to send text messages to its customers containing unique codes and information about its Night In promotional offer. Customers on T-Mobile can…
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Kin hell thanks to Vodafone
From early reports Microsoft’s new Kin http://www.kin.com/ phones seem to be pretty spot on with its mix of great quality cameras, a good keyboard and a touch screen, and we can’t wait to get our hands on one. Unfortunately we’re not going to be able to get them until after the autumn. Yes the autumn,…
News, Video
Twitter still growing fast
Twitter released a mountain of statistics at Chirp chirp.twitter.com, the company’s developer conference, about its business. According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, over the past three years: Twitter has grown to a massive 105.7 million registered users (and it’s increasing by 300,000 each day, with 50% from outside of the US), with 180 million visitors…
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Opera Mini hits a million downloads in a day
Apple said “Yes”, and iPhone users around the world said, “Yes, please”. Opera Mini was downloaded more than one million times (1,023,380 according to Apple’s download count) in its first day of availability and according to Opera, Mini is now currently the number one iPhone app in the 22 featured Apple App Stores on their…