You don’t see too many figures for business apps, most business app users tend to be circumspect about their success or failure, so it’s good to see that something as mundane as a meter reading app is doing so well. In the notes for version 2 of British Gas’s iPhone meter reading application they...
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RIM has launched an invite-only, limited beta BlackBerry wipe, find and backup product BlackBerry Protect. Millions of mobile phones go missing every year and the value of the data on those phones is increasing disproportionally to the cost of the handset. Five years ago the most costly part of losing a phone was the...
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A survey by mobile broadband advice site Broadband Genie found that more than half of the visitors to their site did not know how much mobile broadband data they use each month. In many cases, the visitors could be paying hundreds of pounds for data they don’t use. In a survey of more than...
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Independent mobile ad network InMobi has secured £5.3 million in its Series B funding round to further its global expansion with an emphasis on Europe, North America, and Japan. InMobi is positioning itself as a global mobile advertising alternative to Google and Apple for advertisers, developers and publisher. InMobi, which claims that it doubled...
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Hot on the heels of our iPad sales story of yesterday where analyst and managing director at Rodman & Renshaw Ashok Kumar predicted iPad shipments to more than double to 27 million units in 2011, we now get yet another analyst re-analysing their figures, and this time it’s slightly less, but it’s still a...
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New research shows that mobile users are gradually coming to terms with mobile coupons, especially in the cinema and restaurant sectors, but there’s still a long way to go. New research commissioned by the coupon and voucher services provider, Valassis, found that despite the media chat mobile coupons are still in their infancy, with...
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