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 its…
Month: July 2010
News
Apple iPad estimates just get bigger and bigger
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 hell…
News
Mobile users are getting the hang of vouchers
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 3%…
News
Ericsson predict mobile broadband to hit 3.4bn by 2015
According to phone manufacturer Ericsson’s estimates mobile broadband subscriptions are set to hit 3.4 billion subscriptions by 2015 with a colossal 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Ericsson predicts mobile broadband subscriptions to increase at a faster rate than mobile subscriptions with more than 3.4 billion subscribers predicted by 2015 from 360 million in 2009,…
News
Keep taking the tablets, all 27 million of them
The tablet/slate market is going to go crazy in the next couple of quarters with a tablet expected from Research In Motion (RIM), slates from Microsoft partners running Windows 7 due at the end of the year, and iPad sales estimated to hit 27 million units in 2011. Yes, we really did say 27 million.…
News, Video
Google makes Android app creation simple
Google has launched the Android App Inventor, it’s intended as a quick way of producing Android phone apps for non-technical and non-programmers ie 99.9% of the population, and from what we can see it’s really quite easy to use. The app is aimed at schools but there’s no reason why it can’t be used by…
Analysis, News
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…
News
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…
News
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…
News
T-Mobile finally announce iPhone 4 pricing
The last piece in the UK iPhone 4 jigsaw is now in place. T-mobile have finally announced their iPhone 4 pricing for pay monthly and pay as you go. Although they still haven’t announced when they will be available, it’s still described as coming soon Pay monthly pricing is roughly competitive with everyone else, although…
News
The mythical mobile shopper is more than likely to be a man says survey
Mobile shopping is still in it’s infancy, but we’re making some quick progress, we’ve moved on from the retailers taking the initiative and using texts and coupons to draw us into shops, to the consumer taking the initiative and using apps like RedLaser and our own favourite Stripey Lines to price check in the shop.…
News
Almost 60% of US population are accessing the net wirelessly
The latest Pew Research on Mobile Access shows that six in ten US citizens have used a mobile, wifi or a dongle to get online. The ongoing research shows that things are changing significantly from year to year, in 2009 just over half (51%) of all US adults were going online on a mobile/laptop using…
News
Opera Mini upgraded for better memory use
Opera have upgraded their popular Opera Mini browser, which should be good news for anyone owning a Nokia S40, Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 6300, Nokia 2700, and any one with a small screen including the Sony Ericsson K550i and Sony Ericsson W810i phones. The new version of Mini 5.1, is an update to the recently…
News
iPhone and iPad users are sexy, official!!
Apple users spend more than anyone else on sex toys, statistics from the UK’s largest online sex toy retailer LoveHoney.co.uk (Warning don’t follow this link when you’re in the office) show. LoveHoney’s web traffic, showed that iPad users have the highest average spend on sex toys, closely followed by iPhone users, then Mac users. “Apple users…
News
Nokia slips down the smartphone wants list
The latest YouGov Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience study shows that Nokia continues to lose market share to newer brands such as Apple and HTC. The survey finds that Nokia is failing to compete, with the numbers of smartphone owners planning on opting for a Nokia as their next mobile dropping substantially over the last six…
News
Mobile ad spend to quadruple in the next five years
ABI Research has estimated that amount spent on mobile display advertising will quadruple over the next five years, the more cynical will say yes it’s going to quadruple from £1 to £4, but any rise is good especially in the current economic client. The actual figures for the current mobile ad spend in the US…
News
Apps, I can handle apps
Our obsession with mobile phone applications has turned from an occasional download to a full on addictive relationship. With a fifth of smartphone users downloading more apps than six months ago, and if Gfk NOP are to be believed apps may soon replace browsers as the main gateway to the web for British consumers. GfK…
News
Mobile TV revenues to hit £4.6bn by 2015
Mobile TV is to finally arrive as WiFi becomes a standard in mobile devices with revenues reaching £4.6bn by 2015 For years now the networks and the handset manufacturers have been telling us that this year is finally going to be the year of mobile TV and each year it isn’t. So it’s tempting to…
News, Video
Backup your iPad
LogMeIn Rescue can now backup your iPad, although, surely if you’re really sensible you should be saving all of your data in the cloud and using the iPads wifi and wireless capabilities. However that’s us getting nitpicky and totally missing the fact that people don’t backup as much as they should, or the actual target…
News
Mobile email users to top one billion by 2014
Analyst Gartner has predicted that wireless email users will top one billion by 2014, and says the commoditisation of wireless email owing to mobile support from cloud services vendors is accelerating. Gartner predicts that worldwide wireless e-mail users will reach one billion by year-end 2014, up substantially from 80 million in early 2010 as productivity…