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…
Day: 21 May 2010
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…