Mobile Loose Ends 30/07/10 A weekly round up of things we thought were useful but didn’t have time to cover 1) Are your apps secure? Smartphone security business Lookout has launched the App Genome Project the largest study of mobile apps ever. It’s intended to be an ongoing effort to map and study mobile applications…
Month: July 2010
News
Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010
Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010, driven by sales of smartphones and entry-level handsets. The worldwide mobile phone market continued to show signs of improvement during the second quarter of 2010, driven primarily by smartphone vendors and companies outside the top five leaders worldwide. According to IDC’s Worldwide…
News
iPhone 4 goes on sale at Three shops
As reported yesterday Three is stocking iPhone 4′ s from today but as we reported yesterday we’re not going to be getting a phone from Three, and the phones are only available to new customers. “The anticipation around iPhone 4 has been unprecedented,” said Marc Allera, sales and marketing director at Three. “The feedback we received…
News
iPad apps have more in-app purchases than iPhone apps
The latest Distimo Report (July 2010 looking at June 2010) from app store analytics company Distimo looks in detail at app stores and how effective they are – particularly for in-app purchases. In the report Distimo looked at the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi…
News
RIM betas BlackBerry App World version 2.0
If you’re one of the few many users who use BlackBerry’s App World to download apps, updates, content etc you’ll be very pleased to see that App World 2.0 has just gone live in beta form. App World 2.0 brings a number of enhancements to the app site, and some much needed new payment options…
Analysis
By limiting mobile data usage you limit the future
The big question for operators today is not what monthly fee should they charge for the latest smartphone? But it is, how much data does a smartphone user use? The networks are all adopting smartphones as their defacto device, but nobody knows quite what a strain this will put on their network. Many are worried…
News
Mobile Roadie app builder software goes Pro
iPhone and Android mobile app building platform Mobile Roadie, has launched an even more customisable version of their app builder called Mobile Roadie Pro. The update to Mobile Roadie now allows users full creative control from a platform, including full customisation of menu layout, colours, buttons, and fonts. Pro also supports multiple categories of content,…
Analysis, News
Three and the case of the returning iPhone 4
Yesterday my iPhone 4 arrived, hurrah. Unfortunately sometime in the next five days it’s going back to Three, and I’m changing to another phone company because I’ve had enough, boo. How did things turn so bad? Well it all happened at least eight weeks ago when I expressed a desire to upgrade to an iPhone…
News
Amazon mini Kindle goes on sale
Amazon has upped the ante and has launched a mini Kindle with a pricing structure to hit the mass-market, and free 3G wireless connectivity. Fed up with being the bridesmaid and never the bride when it comes to mobile headlines, Amazon have launched a reduced-sized Kindle, aimed at attacking the mass market, and the iPhone…
News
Mcommerce only working on smartphones
According to a survey by BrandBank Mcommerce is only really working for smartphone users with just 4% of UK consumers find making mobile purchases pain free. The 2010 Brandbank Mcommerce Content Report, shows some major attitudinal differences between consumers that own smartphones (21%) and those who don’t (79%), but the overall trend is one of…
News
WebWorks enterprise content publishing solution for iPad and ePUB
If you have huge amounts of content and you need to get it onto the iPad or any e-publishing format then you’re in luck. US software publishers WebWorks have launched a new product, ePublisher 2010 Mobile Plus, that takes content and automatically reformats it for a variety of different mobile formats including the ePUB standard…
News
Women are spending 30% more time than men on social networking sites
Figures from comScore show what we all thought, that social networks are used more by women than men. While there are only slightly more women using social networking sites than men, they spend over 30% more time than men when they’re online. comScore’s report on women’s online usage, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping…
News
Microsoft looking for Windows Mobile 7 developers
Microsoft are actively looking for developers for Windows Phone 7 and they’re offering a “limited” number of handsets to prospective developers. Last week Microsoft announced that they would be giving away handsets to Windows Mobile 7 developers, and now they’re putting those claims into practice. Mike Ormond a developer evangelist at Microsoft, with responsibility for…
News
Opera state of the UK mobile web
The UK mobile market is continuing to grow at a multi-digit rate according to Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web Report and there’s a welcome return of eBay into the top 10 most visited sites by mobile users. According to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report for June (http://www.opera.com/smw/) the UK’s mobile market…
News
Africa went mobile for the World Cup
Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web Report covers the World Cup and explores mobile web trends in Africa, where growths of 100’s and 1000’s of percent isn’t unusual. Mobile web use is exploding in Africa, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report (http://www.opera.com/smw/). Triple-digit growth rates are routine in the region where…
News
Vodafone offers €100,000 prize to the best UK mobile startup
Got a great idea for a mobile startup? Well good news, Vodafone are offering £83,750 (€100,000) to one lucky winner, (up from €75,000 last year) and a total prize pool of £125,649 (€150,000). The Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 contest to find the UK’s best mobile internet startup is now up and running and all you…
News
Android phones now 13% of UK phone market
Android’s share of the UK mobile contract market has grown from 3% in Q1 2010 to reach 13.2% in Q2 2010, GfK Retail and Technology’s latest figures have revealed. During this period, while contract market sales grew by less than 1%, sales of Android phones increased by a staggering 350%. Phones with an advanced Operating…
News
Apple iPad shipments to hit 12.9 million in 2010 and 50 million by 2012
Analysts iSuppli predicts Apple will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, but their figures for 2011 and 2012 are looking stratospheric. Analysts iSuppli have revised their iPad shipment figures quite significantly, instead of their April predictions of shipments of 7.1 million they now predict end of year sales to be nearer 13 million units, but…
News
iPhone to launch in 17 new countries this week
Apple will be launching the black version of the iPhone 4 in 17 countries from this Friday 30 July. From Friday the iPhone 4 will be newly available in lots more countries in Europe and Scandinavia including; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland Additionally the iPhone will also…
News
Amazon takes £645 million from mobile shoppers
Amazon.com generated revenues of £645 million ($1 billion) from mobile purchases during the last 12 months. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the statistic during the Amazon’s Q2 earnings release, and stressed the importance of mobile phones and tablet computers in the company’s future plans. The news comes just a few days after Amazon revealed that sales…