Three-Quarters of online retailers are developing mobile strategies, according to Shop.org/Forrester Research and are spending £112,000 per year on developing mobile solutions. Online retailers will have to speed up their mobile marketing initiatives to satisfy consumers’ increasing appetite for mobile applications. Some 74% of online retailers have either already developed or are developing a mobile…
Month: July 2010
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18-34 year olds open to mobile as part of cross-channel commerce
Ecommerce business ATG has released a consumer report on cross-channel marketing and there’s some encouraging news for mobile in there, particularly if you’re aiming at a young(ish) audience. ATG asked over a 1000 US consumers how they purchased goods, what part the different channels (mobile, store, mobile etc ) played in those purchases, and how…
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World mobile population now numbers 5 billion
Last week ABI research were saying that by the end of 2010 the worldwide mobile population would exceed five billion, but according to analysts The Mobile World we’ve already hit the 5 billionth user this weekend. And although it was the July 4 weekend the five billionth mobile subscriber was probably living in India or…
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Apple – it’s the bars fault not the phone
Oh dear, more bar problems for Apple, first they lose a phone in a bar now they screw up the way they calculate the bars. Apple have posted an explanatory note regarding the iPhone reception problem, and apparently it’s a problem in the way they calculate the signal strength, and it’s really all right really,…
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Distimo releases the first Apple iPad app data
Distimo have launched their latest report on app usage for May 2010 and it now includes Apple iPad App store usage as well as the usual list of usual suspects. The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than…
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O2 is restocking with iPhone 4’s today
O2 has just tweeted that it will be restocking with iPhone 4’s this weekend and you’ll be able to find where from 12am (midday) today. Since the iPhone 4 launch last week the shiny new Apple gadget has flown of the shelves like hotcakes, and it’s been hard to track one down, so it’s great…
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Apple 4th most successful ecommerce vendor in UK
Experian Hitwise have published their 4 Year Anniversary Edition of the IMRG Hitwise Hot shops list and Apple are at number 4 a jump from their 17th position in May last year, and all on the back of the launch of the iPad. If the iPhone 4 traffic was added in who knows it could…