Day: 27 July 2010

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…

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…

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…