Day: 9 July 2010

Can you hang on a minute I’m multitasking

Mobile’s are encouraging us all to multitask so says a new Nielsen/Yahoo survey on US surfing, watching and viewing behaviours, but advertising just isn’t stepping up to the mark. We’re multi-tasking a lot, the web is now a multi-channel world, with video, audio and text, links to Twitter, Facebook, etc and we’re all happy to…

iPad users are big consumers of business news

Yahoo’s Ashley Cheng has released a second analysis of iPad usage across their various services eg Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News etc and the results confirmed what we thought eg iPad users are predominantly male, middle-aged (35+) and are all crazy for news, and the UK has one of the geekiest iPad markets in the…

Android makes gains over Apple in US smartphone market

comScore’s latest MobiLens data for the three months ending May 2010 shows a significant 4% rise in the Google Android smartphone market compared to a fall in the Apple IOS, RIM, Microsoft and Palm smartphone markets. However while this all seems to be going in Google’s favour it has to be remembered that many Apple…