Vodafone Group named Cardmobili as the winner of its Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 developer competition. The 100,000 Euro top prize at the Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition which awards the best mobile startup from Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom has this year gone to a Portugese startup, Cardmobili. Fending off competition from 159…
Month: September 2010
News
App builders favour Android
Developers may soon be voting with their feet and abandoning iOS if an IDC/Appcelerator survey of mobile app developers is to be believed. A September 2010 developer survey from IDC, sponsored by app builder Appcelerator finds that despite developers only having nine countries to reap profits from paid apps, and the significant updates to the…
News
Windows Phone 7 rumour mill
Microsoft are still not announcing the dates for the launch of Windows Phone 7, so the internet rumour mill has gone into overdrive. At the moment the betting is on a European launch first – Microsoft leaked this info at least a few months ago – with the date speculated as October 21. Where as…
News
Android adding new countries to paid apps
Android developers have received an email with the good news that more markets are arriving, the bad news is they’re not saying which. If you selected to publish your paid apps in all locations then this is for you. The email (below) sent from the Android Market Team on 24 September tells developers that Android…
News, Video
Android, iOS, Bada.. Seabird!!!
Mozilla, home of the alternative open-source browser Firefox and e-mail software Thunderbird has released a spec for a potential new mobile operating system, named Seabird. Seabird is a concept developed for Mozilla’s Concept Series, an open forum for sharing your ideas, expertise & vision for the future of the Web, the Mozilla project and Firefox.…
News
An early Christmas present for iPhone users, a keyboard
Online gadget site ThinkGeek has created its own add-on keyboard for the iPhone. The TK-421 fits around the iPhone like a case and then swivels open to reveal a full QWERTY pad. ThinkGeek has developed the TK-421 (its a Star Wars reference. They are nerds) for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, unfortunately the iPhone 3…
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Nearly one in 10 Americans own an e-reader
Eight percent of Americans use an e-reader, according to new data from Harris Interactive (http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/HI-Harris-Poll-eReaders-2010-09-22.pdf). On top of that, the research firm’s survey found that 12% of respondents who do not currently own an e-reader are likely to purchase one within the next six months. The survey also found that 53% of people with e-readers…
News
Zuckerberg: Facebook’s mobile strategy is breadth not depth. Got that?
Co-founder of social network with more than 500 million users speaks about mobile phone plans
News
Michael Dell whips out his seven-incher
Dell CEO Michael Dell has previewed a second Android tablet to complement its five-inch Streak device. Michael Dell was delivering the Wednesday Keynote “Innovation in the Enterprise” at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, when he started to describe the Dell Streak he then said “Of course, it’s nice to have a larger screen,”…
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iPad owners browse the web, read email and read the papers
Contrary to popular opinion the main use for the iPad is not as an expensive drinks tray, or as an upmarket etch-a-sketch for over paid executives but it’s as an electronic version of the daily paper, and owners of the iPads are more likely to be male and in your late twenties or early thirties,…
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INQ building a phone for Facebook?
Politicians have a great way of lying, it’s where they interpret a question absolutely truthfully, but if you’d asked them a slightly differently phrased question they would have have to have fessed up. Eg Did you sleep with a call girl? No because technically although we were in bed together all night neither of us…
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To Generation Y digital and mobile is the norm
A survey of US technology users and their attitudes to technology has revealed that smartphones and phones are increasingly playing a larger part in their daily lives – no matter what their age. The Forrester study “The State Of Consumers And Technology Benchmark 2010” report is a graphical analysis of Forrester’s North American Consumer Technographics…
News, Video
New fast Android typing app SwiftKey launches today
Get ready to start typing at lightning speed. SwiftKey by business startup TouchType has been in beta for the last three months and as of today – 23 September – it’s gone live on the android market – download here. By using special Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques SwiftKey claims to be able to predict your…
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Dropbox updates iOS and Android apps and launches on BlackBerry
You’re on the road, a customer calls and he wants the latest version of a file, trouble is it’s on your laptop at home. What do you do? Well if you’ve got an iPad/iPhone or an Android phone you go and download Dropbox, and then you sit back calm in the knowledge that you now…
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Samsung’s app store achieves 10M downloads in Europe
Samsung is claiming its application store has passed the 10 million download mark in Europe, and it seems to be doing it off the back of games apps. The top three most popular Samsung Apps downloaded in Europe are Need for Speed Shift, Magic Torch and My Mirror. Need for Speed Shift is a car…
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Consumers want to respond to ads by mobile phone
Research from Lightspeed Research for the Mobile Marketing Association show’s that European consumers (UK, Germany and France) want a mobile choice when they click on an online ad, or respond to an ad in offline media. A quarter of consumers in Europe would be more likely to respond to an ad – including print, television,…
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All UK operators to support Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has announced that the big five mobile operators and two retailers will offer Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones when the new OS launches later this year, possibly October but nobody is willing to say exactly when. The list of operators includes Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3, along with retailers Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u.…
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China is the new app market
App developers should start leaning Chinese if a new study from Canalys is right. The Canalys Mobile Application Analysis services suite study shows that 51% of Chinese end users downloaded applications or games on their mobile phones – 29% more than their Western European counterparts. A similar Canalys survey carried out in France, Germany and…
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Ovi upgrades the app wizard
Nokia has just updated the Ovi app wizard, and all of the apps created with the app Wizard have just had a makeover. Publishers using the Ovi app Wizard have received an email this morning with news of a new update to the Ovi app wizard and an update to all of the apps created…
Analysis, News
Apple commences phase 2 of the World Domination plan
Look at the graphic to your right. Blink once, blink twice. Yes it really is still there. Apple “are” selling the iPhone in easy instalments, and it’s not going to make the mobile operators happy, it’s just going to make Apple richer, and it’s going to make the iPhone – the iPad can’t be too…