Analysts Canalys released its quarterly worldwide PC market data, and Apple has zoomed into the top five PC vendors, thanks to the iPad. The iPad captured approximately 6% of the portable PC segment in Q2 2010, with over 3 million units shipped during the device’s first few months on the market. Conversely, growth in the…
Month: July 2010
News
More than half of UK mobile users never leave home without their mobile phone
More than half of UK mobile users never leave home without their mobile phone and 44% say they could not live without it. In a survey on telephone banking by Birmingham Midshires, the building soceity found that 51% of mobile users said they always took their mobile with them when they went out, with 26%…
News
Apple launches iPhone 4 Case Program app
Gota problem with a screwed up antenna? Well there’s now an app for that. A week after promising free bumper cases to iPhone 4 customers affected by the antenna-gate reception issues, Apple introduced the iPhone 4 Case Program application, enabling consumers to apply for their bumper directly via mobile device. Available now for download via…
News
Acer launch Stream high-end multimedia smartphone
PC manufacturer Acer have launched the Stream; an Android Amoled-based high-end multimedia smartphone, optimised for watching movies, listening to music and web browsing. The Stream is designed to be easy to use, and small – it’s just 11.2mm thick, but the screen is a massive 3.7″ – robust – it’s made from highly resistant materials,…
Features
How to choose a mobile domain name
Choosing a mobile domain name One of the hardest parts of building a mobile site is choosing what you’re going to call it. Not only do you have to choose a cool name for your URL, you also need to choose how you’re going to signify that it’s a mobile site. The options are. m.…
News
Nuance launches new versions of Dictation and Search
Nuance has launched its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search applications to the UK Apple App Store, and they’re free – Nuance says for a limited time but they’ve been free in the US since launch last year so we think it’s going to be sometime if never before they start to charge. The two apps…
News
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…
News
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…
News
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…
News
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…
Reviews
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…
News
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…
Features
Twitter 101 – How to choose a successful Twitter name
Twitter 101 – Chapter 1 Part 1 – Choosing a successful Twitter name This is the first article in a series of helpful briefs on how to get ahead on mobile, and in this first article we look at choosing an effective name on Twitter. Everyone agrees that there’s a benefit from being on the…
Analysis, News
30% of Facebook’s 500m users access via mobile
Thirty percent of Facebook users (150 million) are accessing via mobile, a growth of 50% in just three months. Facebook has hit the 500 million user mark, and it’s done it on the back of mobile. Figures from Facebook show that 150 million of the 500 million subscribers now access Facebook via a mobile, up…
News
Apple hits 100 million iOS devices
Apple’s figures for Q3 2010 (everything up to June 26 two days after the new iPhone 4 went on sale) show a dip in quarterly iPhone sales on Q2 but it’s a significant increase on Q3 sales for 2009. And despite Antenna-gate, Apple are bullish on their prospects for Q4 and are promising more new…
News
ABI Research says it’s time for marketers to wake up to mobile
Marketers should wake up to the potential of mobile say ABI Research The mobile web is here to stay but unfortunately marketers aren’t catching on to the true potential. According to ABI research the mobile web opportunity is there and while it’s not a “tsunami” of opportunity it is “the first waves of what could…
News
BBC News iPad app hits 1 million downloads
MobileIQ the developers of the BBC News iPad app announced that the app had hit 1 million downloads. The 1 million download landmark was hit in less that 15 weeks from the apps launch on April 3 and it was all driven by users outside of the UK. The app was available on day one…
News
Tablet computers to ship over 11 million in 2010
When ABI Research first examined the media tablet market in February, neither Apple’s iPad nor any other multinational-branded tablet had been released. Six months later, the firm has revisited its forecasts, almost tripling the original estimate to reach about 11 million tablets expected to ship by the end of 2010, with the majority of the…
News
Smartphones herald a new era of smart shopping
According to new research from PriceGrabber.co.uk, smartphones have created a new type of shopper, ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you to the, “smartshopper.” The smartshopper doesn’t just use their smartphone to browse the internet for bargains they also use it as a bargaining tool in store, and it’s the big ticket items that the…
Analysis
Even the comment spam hates the iPhone 4
As you would expect from a popular site we get quite a lot of comment spam. Most of it is utter garbage, there’s a lot along the lines of; “your site is really great, i really love it, and by the way did you know there’ s this great slimming product etc”, Or it’s a few…