Media lawyers Wiggin’s annual look at how we use digital media in the UK shows that we hate paying for news content online, we like online magazines, we’re obsessed with social media particularly Facebook, and we’re all dying to make Steve Jobs the happiest man on Earth. According to the survey while TV watching still…
Month: May 2010
Analysis, Editorial
Editorial – Android just doesn’t work
Last night I spent three hours in an extremely hot room in the name of research. The research was for a mobile company, who will remain nameless, but I can reveal the research was all about smartphone interfaces and how they compared. Each phone in the research was subjected to the same against the clock…
News
Three gets iPad pricing right
Three, are the latest network to enter in to the iPad data plan market, ready for the UK launch on Friday, and their pricing is keen to say the least. They also have a network that unlike some of their competitors is actually very fast, although in our experience it’s also a little patchy in…
News
iPad to be on sale in Dixons/Currys/PC World
If you want an iPad on Friday your best bet is to start camping outside one of the 139 Dixons Group stores, as you’ll have no luck at an Apple store, and you’re way out of luck if you’ve ordered online. According to the Times and confirmed on the Register the iPad will go on…
News
Dell Streaks to O2
O2 have the drop on the rest of the networks with today’s announcement that they’re getting the exclusive on the Dell Streak. The launch date is described by both Dell and O2 as “early next month” with the Streak being sold in O2 stores, online at O2 and Carphone Warehouse. “The Dell Streak is a…
News
iPhone gadget of the week
You’re out and about and your iPhone is about to die and you’ve left the charging cable at home. What do you do? Simple get out your ScoSche flipSYNC cable out and you can plug your iPhone in to any USB port. It’s so small that it fits in to it’s own handy key chain.…
News
AdMob now in the Google fold
Google confirmed on its official blog that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Google’s acquisition of mobile advertising platform AdMob with the Commission vote on closing the investigation standing at a unanimous 5-0. Interestingly, while Google report it as a straight approval, the actual wording from the FTC is not quite so straightforward.…
News
MEX celebrates good mobile design
The winners of the 2010 MEX User Experience Awards http://www.mobileuserexperience.com were announced this week, and anyone looking for some good examples of mobile design, and mobile user experience are recommended to take a look at the entries. Innovator of the Year MX series by Movirtu with frog design Judges’ quote: “We chose MX Series because…
News
e-commerce bounces back – the Internet recession is over
E-commerce is back up to double digit year-on-year increases for the first time in six quarters, and while this is not strictly a mobile story, it will undoubtedly have an influence on the mobile sector. comScore’s Q1 2010 US retail e-commerce sales estimates, showed that online retail spending neared (£23.5 billion) $34 billion for the…
News
BlackBerry users have a life, reveals Bango
According to statistics released by analytics and payment network Bango, BlackBerry users in the US now browse the internet more outside of main business hours. The stats show that, 6am to 8am and 6pm to 8pm are the busiest times for mobile web access. Contrary to the traditional view that BlackBerry owners use the device…
Comment, News
Apple beware, Android and Ovi are getting big
A couple of new snippets of info on the apps market released this week show that you’d be silly – nay stupid – just to concentrate all your efforts on building apps for the Apple platforms. There was plenty of big news for Android developers released at this week’s Google I/O jamboree in San Francisco’s…
News
UK iPad sales predicted at 585k in 2010 and 8.1 million worldwide
The iPad is such a hot property that, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky sales of the tablet are likely to hit over 8 million worldwide with of 585K units in the UK. “Checks indicate that US iPad sales remain strong post-launch, driven by rising consumer visibility to iPad’s user experience, sustained PR/word-of-mouth…
News
iPad users 350% hungrier than iPhone users
The iPad may not have yet officially been launched in the UK, but that isn’t stopping the device from performing better for retailers than the iPhone, in fact 350% better. Despite having not being released in the UK yet, an initial like-for-like comparison of conversion rates of visitors to buyers on UK takeaway website Just…
News
Music to my mobile ears – Not
According to a release from ComScore 54m mobile users in the five biggest markets in Europe are listening to music on their mobiles, but only 4.3m of them are downloading. The ComScore stats for five key European countries: the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Italy reveal that 23.8% of mobile users across those markets are…
News
Mobile marketing to grow by 40% a year
Analysts ABI Research are bullishly speculating that mobile marketing will increase by over 40% a year up to 2015. ABI research says mobile marketing in 2009 was worth well under £350 million ($500 million), which by our rough calculations means that by 2015 mobile marketing will be hitting around £1.8 billion ($2.57 billion) a year.…
News
iTunes iPad UK store now live
There’s a week to go to the official launch and the UK iPad site on iTunes has gone live. There’s some UK content in there but the pricing is in US dollars and cents, and the majority of the content is still US. In a report by web site ElectricPig they found a different look…
News
PayPal adds Android to it’s iPhone developer toolkit
Payments giant PayPal have added Android to their list of devices, with their latest update of their Mobile Payments Library. The library enables Android developers to add a PayPal payments system to their applications with a library of standard functions that can be added quickly and simply. The Mobile Payments Library allows developers to add…
News
Apple dominates Quantcast’s mobile web consumption figures
Web analytics business Quantcast has been drip-feeding data on UK and European web consumption all this week and they’ve finally got to mobile. The figures show Apple dominating the market with a market with what Quantcast describes as “a relatively high smartphone penetration.” The figures released by Quantcast in some very nice colourful graphics, show…
News, Video
Windows developers can now build iPhone apps
One of the main drawbacks for the “truly” mass market development of iPhone apps has been the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) which you need to write an test an iPhone app. The problem with the SDK are; a) it’s only available on a Mac b) it’s an Apple proprietary version of programming language C…
News
Twitter official iPhone app now out
What’s new in version 3 of Tweetie? Well it’s now called Twitter and so far it’s been released in New Zealand and is making it’s way around the world, so we’re only hours away from getting it in the UK/US. UPDATE 7pm – The app is now live and ready for download http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8 New features…