Lack of speed, kills the mobile user experience, dead. Research has found that the biggest turn off for mobile users is waiting for mobile pages to load. A client once said to us “the mobile web? Isn’t that just the normal web on a small screen?” It’s a scary thought and it’s not an uncommon…
Month: October 2010
News
Ballmer bullish on Windows Phone 7
Microsoft’s head honcho CEO Steve Ballmer has told the Wall Street Journal that he expects big things from Windows Phone 7 (WP7), but he’s not predicting that the smartphone will take over from the PC. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Ballmer explained why they didn’t produce their own WP7 handset, and who…
News
Wired UK to do an iPad version that “won’t be better than the magazine”
Publishers Condé Nast are to launch an iPad version of UK Wired to test the market. The iPad version will however not be going monthly immediately. The first version is intended only as a way of testing the water. The original announcement from the Wired blog explains that the iPad issue will be built in-house…
Analysis, News
How to lose £8 million in three years – buy Yospace
We all know that Mobile can be a volatile area, it’s new and there’s no guarantees that anything will work. So it’s no surprise that we learn from the Telegraph.co.uk that mobile video content platform Yospace was sold by publisher Bauer for just £1, three years after being bought for at least £8 million in…
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Apple results sweepstake get your predictions in.
We’re in readiness for Apple’s Q4 results and the pundits are getting their predictions in for what Apple will announce in two weeks time. Horace Dediu at Asymco’s predictions are iPhone units: 12.2 13 million (65% 77% growth) Macs: 4 million (30% growth) iPads: 3.3 5 million iPods: 9.4 9.7 million (-5% growth) Music growth: 26.7%…
Analysis, News
Games are still the dominant apps category
The latest Distimo report is out for Q3 2010 and it’s got lots of good information on how the app world is doing in the US. Especially the continued dominance of games as the top apps in nearly all app stores. The report covers the most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPad,…
News
Mobile payments – the new technology coming to the UK
Forget cash and cards. In the Spanish town of Sitges you can go shopping with nothing but your mobile phone
News, Products
A top gadget for all BlackBerry users
If you really want to be a true roadwarrior, then you need to swap everything to your mobile, and ditch the laptop, and just go mobile commando. However while apps and services like Dropbox and Evernote allow you to take your files and data with you wherever you go, there’s still one little problem. How…
News
What happens to the iPad if nobody else’s tablets are any good?
Have you handled any tablet computers (excluding the iPad)? Of course not – they’re still not in the shops, and in the case of RIM’s PlayBook, there’s doubt about whether it even exists
News
Google adds 20 new countries to it’s paid application list
As we reported on Monday Google was planning to add additional countries to it’s paid app support, and they’ve come up trumps. There are now 29 countries where developers can sell apps on the Google Android market. From today Android developers can sell their apps in 29 countries, up from just nine. Today’s additions include;…
News
eBuddy hits 100 million app downloads
Dutch web and mobile instant messaging business eBuddy has passed the 100 million app downloads mark. A blog post from the firm confirms the figures and adds a quote from CEO and co-founder Jan-Joost “JJ” Rueb, “Reaching the 100 million mobile download milestone speaks not only to the popularity of mobile IM, but also to…
News
Ovi Store hits 2.3 million downloads a day
Nokia’s Ovi Store seems to be in rude health if the blog post says what we think it says. According to Nokia the number of active Nokia Ovi service users has reached 140 million worldwide, with more than 200,000 people signing up daily to Ovi, with the Ovi Store reaching 2.3 million downloads per day.…