Our obsession with mobile phone applications has turned from an occasional download to a full on addictive relationship. With a fifth of smartphone users downloading more apps than six months ago, and if Gfk NOP are to be believed apps may soon replace browsers as the main gateway to the web for British consumers. GfK…
Day: 6 July 2010
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Mobile TV revenues to hit £4.6bn by 2015
Mobile TV is to finally arrive as WiFi becomes a standard in mobile devices with revenues reaching £4.6bn by 2015 For years now the networks and the handset manufacturers have been telling us that this year is finally going to be the year of mobile TV and each year it isn’t. So it’s tempting to…
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Backup your iPad
LogMeIn Rescue can now backup your iPad, although, surely if you’re really sensible you should be saving all of your data in the cloud and using the iPads wifi and wireless capabilities. However that’s us getting nitpicky and totally missing the fact that people don’t backup as much as they should, or the actual target…
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Mobile email users to top one billion by 2014
Analyst Gartner has predicted that wireless email users will top one billion by 2014, and says the commoditisation of wireless email owing to mobile support from cloud services vendors is accelerating. Gartner predicts that worldwide wireless e-mail users will reach one billion by year-end 2014, up substantially from 80 million in early 2010 as productivity…
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Three-Quarters of US online retailers are developing mobile strategies
Three-Quarters of online retailers are developing mobile strategies, according to Shop.org/Forrester Research and are spending £112,000 per year on developing mobile solutions. Online retailers will have to speed up their mobile marketing initiatives to satisfy consumers’ increasing appetite for mobile applications. Some 74% of online retailers have either already developed or are developing a mobile…