Intuit and Nokia have announced an alliance to develop and deliver an innovative new mobile and web based marketing service for small businesses around the world. Addressing one of the main concerns for the world’s estimated 500 million small businesses, the new service will be designed to help them get more business through personalised, relevant…
Month: September 2010
News
RIM losing out to the iPhone
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has posted a surge in quarterly profit and revenue, however things don’t look so good for next quarter revenues as it fails to add as many subscribers as it expected. RIM said it shipped 12.1 million devices to wireless carriers and stores in its fiscal second quarter, up 45%…
News
The web is still no faster than a pigeon
This story is not strictly Mobile or Business but it is mobile broadband – in a way – and it amused us greatly, and we know how they feel, sometimes our mobile broadband is so slow you’d have thought it was going via carrier pigeon. A South African business Unlimited IT based in Durban decided…
News
comScore – Android sees significant growth in US
comScore has released data from latest July survey of key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2010. The big change is the increase in the Smartphone market share for Android. It produced a staggering 5% growth for the quarter. Elsewhere not much changed, which is surprising…
News, Video
WeTab to launch the first MeeGo tablet
WeTab*, a German tablet computer start-up, is set to launch “the first shipped MeeGo-based tablet in the world” next week, offering the WeTab product initially in its home market, with availability through retailer Media Markt. The company is a partner of Intel, one of the main proponents of the platform, and the planned shipping was…
News
Apple iOS 4.2 beta released to developers
The beta version of Apple’s iOS 4.2 has been released to developers At the last Apple press conference, Steve Jobs said that iPhone iOS 4.2 would arrive in November, but it seems quite a long lead time from Beta to final version so we suspect that it might be launched a little earlier. The focus…
News
Corrie Nation – ITV bases social networking game on Coronation Street
Game will launch on Facebook and ITV.com on 1 November – a month before soap celebrates its 50th birthday
News
Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 finalists
Vodafone has announced the four finalists of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 competition and you’ve now got until September 24 to vote for finalist that you think should be the winner. The annual competition is designed to identify and develop the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups. The four finalists represent companies working on field-worker…
News
Three get aggressive on data PAYG pricing
Three announced some quite aggressive Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing to add to its All In One product, you can now get 500Mb for £5 per month which must be one the cheapest rates around. Three announced that from yesterday it would be updating it’s PAYG pricing and instead of the normal texts and…
News
Vogue slims down for iPad edition
Conde Nast is launching iPad apps for Vogue and Wired
News
Tesco creating an Android grocery app
In an amusing post on his blog Tesco’s head of R&D Nick Lansley has promised users that Tesco will be producing an Android app and providing a barcode update to their current iPhone app. Lansley quotes a post from reader B0lty on his site: Why haven’t you included a barcode scanner? More like why haven’t…
News
Ofcom to test mobile broadband speeds
The UK telecom regulator, Ofcom has decided to compile its own mobile broadband coverage data maps and has contracted an outside company, Epitiro to analyse the performance of the networks. Ofcom has previously relied on operator provided statistics when compiling its coverage maps, but after the findings in the recently published Communications Market Report which…
News
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the power of the mobile phone
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at Nokia World conference and as you would expect from the man who invented the web he had a few pithy things to say about the future of the web, and the importance of mobile to that future. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has always been an advocate of information freedom. It…
News, Video
25% of searches from Android phones are by voice
A new stat to impress the children has appeared on the Google Mobile Blog, according to Heaven Kim, Product Marketing person for Google Mobile “one in every four searches from an Android phone in the US is by voice.” We’re actually quite stunned by that fact here at Bmob as in the UK we haven’t…
News
Condé Nast chief: up to 40% of sales could be on iPad
Nicholas Coleridge reveals publisher will launch paid-for applications for December issues of UK Wired and Vogue
News
US mobile owners are downloading apps but not using them
A new extensive Pew Internet study on apps and their usage has come up with some stats that may worry developers out there. Yes, users are downloading apps, but relatively few users then subsequently use the apps. Which is oK if you’re planning on making revenues from a paid app, but disappointing if you’re planning…
News, Video
Mobile Twitter usage up by 250%
The number of people accessing Twitter from their mobile has grown by 250% since the start of this year, according to CEO Evan Williams. The statistic was one just one of many revealed by Williams at a press conference for the new redesigned Twitter that will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Williams…
News
Nokia provides app developers with new tools for Ovi
There’s been some interesting news from Nokia World 2010 over Ovi that should make app developers very happy. The first bit of good news is the usage statistics for its Ovi Store. Liz Schimel, VP of music services & connected entertainment, stated that Ovi Store now has 130 million active users globally, with 2 million…
Analysis, News
Everyone is downloading apps, but they aren’t searching
Smartphones – not just iPhones – are encouraging users to download apps if new figures from Nielsen are to be believed, however none of them appear to be using search to find them. A new Nielsen survey shows that as of June 2010, 59% of smartphone owners and nearly 9% of feature phone owners report…
News
UK Mobile ad market to grow 840% over next five years
The UK mobile advertising market looks set to finally come of age, with total revenues estimated to grow 840% from £27.47 million this year to £258.27 million by 2015, according to the latest data released by mobileSQUARED. In 2010, the mobile banner ad market will be worth £12.96 million, with search worth £9.86 million. However,…