Analysts Informa Telecoms & Media estimates smartphone ATPU (average traffic per user) on mobile networks will increase 700% over the next five years. Informa estimates that ATPU per smartphone in the US currently averages 85MB per month, and this is forecast to reach a staggering 776MB/month by 2015, where as Western Europe will also enjoy…
Day: 2 November 2010
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Apple has 95% of tablet market in 3rd Quarter 2010
Global tablet shipments reached over 4 million units in the third quarter of 2010, with Apple unsurprisingly being the market leader. The latest research from Strategy Analytics, shows Apple took 95% of the global share of the tablet market beating Android into second place with just 2% of the market. However that’s due to rise…
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Twitter extending promoted tweets to timeline
Twitter has extended it’s Promoted Tweets – eg twitter adverts – to the timelines of HootSuite users, with a roll out to all users. Twitter launched it’s Promoted Tweets in April, with a plan for gradually rolling them out starting with search on Twitter.com, then in search through our partners, and eventually in the user…
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UK Employees spending a fifth of their time working out of the office
Over half of UK business employees are spending more than a fifth of their week working outside of the office according to a new UK study conducted by headset manufacturer Plantronics. Mobile worker are increasingly spending more time working outside the office, in so-called ‘transitional’ spaces. Defined by Plantronics as public spaces used while in…
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Internet Explorer wins first HTML5 conformance test
The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and the winner is the Platform preview (aka beta) of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9. The W3C tests put IE9 beta release 6 at the top of the HTML5 conformance table, followed by Google Chrome 7, Firefox 4 beta 6, Opera 10.6,…
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One million people in UK have made payment by mobile
According to new figures from PayPal released today over one million Britons have now used PayPal to make a payment or send money on their mobile phones. In Britain, PayPal saw month on month mobile transactions grow by 20% in July and August this year. PayPal UK customers already make an average of almost five…
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Android now 44% of US smartphone market
US Android market has grown significantly in the third quarter of 2010, and now accounts for 44% of all smartphones purchased. Thanks to continued high-profile handset introductions, the Android smartphone OS significantly grew its lead in the US consumer smartphone market in Q3 2010. According to market research company NPD Group, Android’s OS was installed…
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Times iPad app has “changed the way we do journalism”
News International revealed on Radio 4 this morning that it had just over 50,000 monthly subscribers paying to access its digital versions of The Times and Sunday Times since it introduced its’ paywall earlier in year. Speaking on Radio 4 this morning, James Harding, Times Editor confirmed it had achieved more than 105,000 paid-for sales…