The New York Times (NYT) Times rolls out a new form of printing press for the 21st Century, gone are the days of big metal presses, we’re now in the age of the app printing press in the form of the Press Engine. If you’re a content driven site and you’re looking to get on…
Month: August 2010
Analysis
Torch, N8, WP7, what Else?
This weeks launch of both the RIM Torch 9800 and the Nokia N8 and the announcement of the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Phones reminds us of just how sick we are of seeing the phrase “iPhone killer.” It’s also got us thinking about what happened to the killers of the past. First off there was…
News
More than 3.6 billion mobiles will be internet enabled by 2015
In 2015, 3.8 billion mobile handsets – slightly more than 60% of the installed base of mobile handsets worldwide – will contain mobile web browsers, according to a new study from ABI Research. That doubles today’s penetration rate and the research indicates that the installed base of full Internet browsers will exceed that of proxy-based browsers sometime in 2012.…
News
Almost a third of consumers are banking on their mobile
Research from mobile messaging service Sybase 365, shows that demand for mobile internet and banking services has exceeded expert expectations, with almost 50% accessing the internet on their phone and almost a third of consumers are banking on their mobile. Thirty percent of mobile users currently use banking services on their mobile handset, compared to…
News
Smartphones now 25% of US market
Android shows rapid growth as smartphone market grows to 25% in the US. Smartphones are really taking off in the US where they now represent 25% of the US mobile market, up from 23% in the last quarter according to recent data from The Nielsen Company. Not only are Smartphones growing they’re also predicted to…
News
Mobile data usage grows exponentially
Mobile data usage continues to grow exponentially as 3G technology spreads globally. According to ABI Research data usage is expected to increase from 2009 to 2015 at a compound annual growth rate of 42% in Western Europe and 55% in North America. In 2010, the average North American user is expected to consume 159 megabytes…
News
Windows Phone 7 coming in October
Microsoft are to launch Windows Phone 7 (WP7) handsets into Europe first, with a launch in October, followed by a launch in the US in November. The COO of Microsoft, Kevin Turner, let slip the launch date of WP7 at a recent conference where he hosted a presentation snappily titled “Windows Phone 7 – Getting…
News, Video
Apple take down antennagate vids
Apple’s claims that it’s not just them that has problems with mobile phone antennas has created bad feeling amongst Apples competitors. So, it’s no surprise that Apple have now removed videos of other devices suffering from similar problems from its Antenna site www.apple.com/antenna Sometime over the last few days Apple has removed the videos of…
News
Email is still the dominant activity for US mobile users
US consumers are still loyal to email on their phones despite the rise of social networking, and in fact email use actually increased rather than decreased over the last year. The research comes from a survey, entitled What Americans Do Online, and compares and contrasts PC and mobile behaviour, and the way US consumers spend…
News
T-Mobile now stocks the iPhone 4
In the game of iPhone bingo it’s time to shout Full House!! as T-mobile finally comes on board with the iPhone 4. The only major network not to stock the iPhone is Virgin Mobile, but it can’t be long surely? The iPhone 4, which launched over a month ago, is available on tariffs starting from…