Day: 23 July 2010

You can have any colour as long as it’s black

To misquote Henry Ford, Apple have announced that you can have an iPhone in any colour you want as long as it’s black, well for the immediate future anyway. In a short announcement, the firm confirmed that the white unit had proved difficult to manufacture, while the official web store simply offers the message that…

Android users learning to click

The Android mobile platform is making big gains in global click-through rates, according to Smaato’s Mobile Advertising Metrics report for June. Android, the iPhone and BlackBerry all gained in Smaato’s worldwide CTR index. However, it was Google’s mobile platform that made the biggest gains, as it surpassed Apple to achieve the third-highest worldwide CTR of…

Mobile Loose Ends

Mobile Loose Ends – Some stories from the last two weeks that appealed to us and we thought were interesting and why. Shopkick get a kick from VCs The Wall Street Journal are finally realising that mobile is taking off and the reason they’re realising is that the VCs are starting to go into a…

UK brands don’t understand the value of mobile visitors

A Bigmouthmedia survey has revealed that more than three quarters of the UK’s big brands do not understand the value of a visitor via mobile compared to other digital channels The research, which polled the views of key decision makers at a raft of leading UK companies, shows that despite a significant 89.2% of respondents…

Easy WiFi – Trustive – iPhone App Review

We’ve had the Trustive iPhone App for a few months now as a backup for our normal 3G connection – which leaves a lot to be desired despite the networks assurance that it covers 90% of the country – and more importantly as an alternative to paying high data roaming costs. The app comes with…

Smartphone shipments jump 43% to 60m units in Q2 2010

According to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments rose 43% annually to a record 60 million units during Q2 2010. Research show that the smartphone market is continuing to grow and it now accounts for 19% of total worldwide handset volumes, up from 15% a year earlier. The research firm…