Argos customers will soon be able to access over 25,000 Argos products on the move, following the launch of the free Argos iPhone Application which is expected to launch in the coming days. Argos is confident of high consumer demand for the App following a traffic increase of over 600% from mobile Apple devices to…
Month: May 2010
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Mobile gaming revenue to grow to £3.9 billion
Worldwide mobile gaming end-user revenue is forecast to surpass £3.9 billion ($5.6 billion) in 2010, a 19% increase from 2009 revenue of £3.28 billion ($4.7 billion), according to Gartner. The market will continue to see steady growth through 2014, when the market is projected to reach £7.94 billion ($11.4 billion). “The hype around mobile application…
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Mobile phone sales grew 17% in first quarter 2010
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17% increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an increase of 48.7% from the first quarter of 2009. With Android phones seeing a 707% growth…
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UK spends £422 million on mobile software applications each year
LG have released a survey on Android apps ahead of the release of their new Android phone – the LG Optimus GT540 handset, and the app of choice for UK users from the 50,000 Android apps available is a money saving app rather than a gaming or lifestyle app. LG estimates that the UK spends…
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Twitter to launch it’s own iPhone app today
If you’re looking for the Atebits Tweetie 2 app today then don’t bother, it’s been removed to allow for the new official Twitter app If you go to iTunes US and UK Tweetie no longer shows up. Links to Tweetie 2 on itunes also now return error messages. However according to Mobile Entertainment site people…
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Facebook goes free on mobile
Facebook has launched a free service 0.facebook.com designed for the third-world – and is only available to certain countries see list at the bottom – which will allow users to get access to Facebook for free. Facebook anytime, anywhere 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but…
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blinkx launches mobile video search site
Video search engine blinkx has launched a public beta version of its world-class product that is specifically designed for mobile access at http://m.blinkx.com/. Starting today (19 May 2010), users can access the blinkx Mobile Video Search beta site from any phone with a web browser that can play MP4s, included in the following list: Apple…
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The Getties application awards launched
Mobile app download site Getjar has launched the Getties a new annual competition for the best application on a mobile platform. The awards are open to applications written for Android, BlackBerry, Java, iPhone, Symbian and even Windows. A panel of industry heavyweights will select 18 nominees (3 in each of the 6 categories) from the…
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Smartphone sales on the rise
iSuppli handset figures for the first quarter of 2010 are out and they contain yet another indication of the smart phone’s revolutionary impact on mobile, as both RIM and Apple rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place. RIM, whose…
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Visa confirms iPhone payment service
As we reported a few weeks ago Visa will be launching a NFC (Near Field Communication) add-on for the iPhone to allow iPhone users to simply flash their phone to pay for goods, get into buildings, and travel. The Visa device is an external case that plugs into the bottom of the iPhone via the…
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FT launches iPad app
The Financial Times following on from the Express the BBC – in the US – has launched an iPad app. The FT’s free iPad app – it’s sponsored by very expensive watchmakers Hublot – watch will provide access to video, markets data, investment portfolios, news and analysis. The new app integrates with the FT.com limited…
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iPhone 4G to sell 19.5 million in first year
Apple could ship over 24 million iPhones in 2010 and 19 million next-generation 4G iPhones according to a new report in Digitimes. The Digitimes number includes shipments of 4.5 million units shipped in the first half of 2010 before the new model is launched. With as many as 19.5 million next-generation iPhones in the second…
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Amazon release Kindle for Android in summer
Amazon is to launch a free Kindle app for Android to join the free versions for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, BlackBerry. Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Android phones, is coming “this summer” according to the press release although there’s no…
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Netbook market to get a 20 million iPad tablet boost
Last year ABI Research forecast that approximately 35 million netbooks would ship into world markets in the course of the year – an estimate was viewed in some quarters as unrealistically high – they were wrong, by the end of 2009 36.3 million netbooks shipped. This year they estimate 58 million netbooks will be shipped…
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Mobiles and cancer? The jury is still out
The results of a new international survey on the links between cancer and mobile phone use has been published, and the conclusion is that there’s no link that they could find, but that it still needs some research, particularly for the effects of “long-term heavy use”. Luckily that research is ongoing and the research that…
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Google nix Nexus online
Google have had a slight mid-course correction with the Nexus, and have decided to leave selling mobiles to the big boys in store, and to concentrate on pushing Android via online. Andy Rubin, VP, Engineering at Google in an announcement on his blog on Friday, “Nexus One changes in availability”, described the reasons for Google’s…
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Users like mobile advertising
According to some new research by US wifi operator JiWire mobile users actually like advertising, and are actively clicking on mobile advertising. JiWire’s research found that advertisements in mobile applications are especially effective. With over half of survey respondents acting on an advertisement in an application in the last 30 days, and 18 percent made…
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Sharp to bring 3D cameras to mobile devices
Sharp Japan has developed a 3D camera module intended for mobile devices, that’s capable of capturing high-definition 3D video images. Sharp will start shipping samples in July with consumer devices launching in 2010. The 3D camera module developed by Sharp incorporates two cameras and includes hardware to process the image data output by the left…
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Android selling 65,000 devices a day
More than 65,000 devices running the Google’s Android operating system are shipped every day, according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and Google has plans for the platform to be number ‘one or two’ player in the market. Schmidt, speaking at Google’s annual shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, said the…
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Video is the future for mobile
OK we lied a little with the headline, video isn’t the future of mobile not unless we all became very rich and the telecomms providers discovered that they could support 20 million people streaming the latest Lady Gaga video at once putting the entire network into meltdown, instead this is a video about the future…