Homebase has revealed that online sales from mobiles have increased over 600%* in the last year, and they are making mobile a key part of their multi-channel strategy. To help bolster those figures even more, Homebase have launched a free “on the go” shopping app. The Apple iOS Homebase app www.homebase.co.uk/app includes over 30,000 browsable…
Month: November 2010
News
Mobile games revenue to double by 2015
Angry Birds has started a trend according to Jupiter Research, but discoverability is becoming a problem. A new report published today (Nov 30) by Juniper Research forecasts that revenues from in-game purchases will overtake the traditional pay-per-download model as the primary source of monetising mobile games by 2013. With Apple’s in-app billing mechanism showing the…
Analysis, News
PayPal looking to mobile for growth
In an interview with the New York Times “For PayPal, the Future Is Mobile” PayPal’s President Scott Thompson, said he was looking to grow PayPal revenues to more than parent eBay’s revenues, and he expects at least some of that additional revenue to come from mobile. Currently PayPal accounts for 37% of eBay’s overall revenue…
News
2010 set to be a mobile christmas?
Predictions are flying in thick and fast on mobile commerce and Christmas. According to the predictions this year will either be the first year where mobile has made a significant impact on Christmas sales, or it’s likely be the year where mobile starts to make a difference. Either way it’s started a trend. According to…
News
The iPad may not be the great saviour of newspapers
Digital devices like the Kindle and the iPad have media companies quivering with excitement – but will people really use them to read newspapers and magazines?
Analysis, News
Subsidised iPads for Christmas? Probably not
It now seems like everyone is in the race to get a subsidised iPad out before Christmas, or are they? The releases on the subsidised iPads all point to subsidised iPads in the New Year, not pre-Christmas. In the running and in “negotiations” with Apple about delivering a subsidised iPad with a contract data plan…
Analysis, News
The iPad haves and the iPad have nots?
According to Pew Research figures, the iPad could potentially produce a wealth divide, where iPad-owning wealthy individuals gained access to data and information, that was out of the range of poor. However we think they’re missing something out in their figures. The Pew Research figures “Use of the internet in higher-income households” found that 95%…
News
Murdoch and Branson to launch iPad newspapers
Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch are to launch rival publications exclusively for Apple’s iPad. Branson’s Virgin is expected to unveil its iPad-only Project on 30 November, to be followed in early December by Murdoch’s The Daily, according to a post on the Financial Times website (Branson set to unveil iPad-only magazine). Branson’s Project is expected…
News
Distimo gives a first hint of Windows Phone 7 user preferences
The October Distimo report gives us a peak at the way users are working with the new WP7 marketplace and although this doesn’t represent a full month’s worth of data – the report covers data on WP7 Marketplace during the period November 1 – 22 2010 in the United States – it does give an…
News
Mobile usage up by 7% on September
Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report for October 2010 shows a continuing upwards trend in mobile usage. In October 2010, Opera Mini had over 76.3 million users, a 7.1% increase from September 2010 and more than 92% compared to October 2009. Opera Mini users viewed over 41.6 billion pages in October 2010 up by…
News
Mobile app development to surpass development on all other platforms
According to the 2010 IBM Tech Trends Survey, conducted online by IBM developerWorks, more than half of all IT professionals (55 percent) expect mobile software application development for devices such as iPhone and Android, and even tablet PCs like iPad and PlayBook, will surpass application development on all other traditional computing platforms by 2015. Programmers…
News
Youth say no to the desktop and yes to mobile
A worldwide survey of over 300,000 users by Opera show’s that 18-27 year-olds (Generation Y) use their mobile phones to browse the Web more often than they use a desktop or laptop computer, and the average age for your first mobile phone is 15.5. “We have often said that the next generation will grow up…
News
Mobile to account for 30% of US Christmas online spend
IDC Retail Insights has released figures claiming that mobile shoppers will account for over 30% of all money spent over Christmas in the US. IDC’s survey revealed that the increase in mobile shopping will be down to the efforts of mobile shopping “warriors” (hyper-connected individuals) and mobile shopping “warrior wannabies” (moderately connected individuals). Between them…
News
Just watch what you ask for
Sometimes you can never underestimate just how stupid people are, and then there are recruitment people. We were trawling through the job adverts from website Chinwag, when we came across an advert for “iPad Developer – News Corp (Propel London Ltd)” and our ears pricked up. The advert was looking for a developer for a…
News
Almost one in three in the UK access the net from mobile
Office for National statistics figures for the UK show that almost a third of the UK population are accessing the internet via their mobile, up by 30% on earlier this year. Mobile web use is up sharply in the UK. About 31% of internet users said they went online via mobile phone in 2010, compared…
News
FT gives £300 tablet bonus to staff
The Financial Times will be giving staff a £300 rebate towards the cost of a iPad or other tablet. In the first initiative of it’s kind that we know about, the FT is going to single-handedly boost the tablet market by 1,800 units, and award Steve Jobs, Samsung, and retailers everywhere an early Christmas present…
News
UK mobile retailers get a best practice body
The IAB, the retailer trade body IMRG and interactive media association AIME have announced their joint leadership body aimed at providing best practice in the mobile commerce sector. The long-winded Mobile Commerce Joint Industry Committee (MCJIC) will provide research and best-practice guidelines, as well as regulate each of its members’ m-commerce activity. The move follows…
Video
Google’s Schmidt maps out it’s NFC future
As we reported earlier on in the week Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt mapped out the search giants plans for NFC and the inclusion of the technology in the next version of the Android operating system at the Web 2.0 Summit. If you weren’t there then YouTube has the full video of his interview and we’ve…
News
Nokia to start contactless payments in 2011?
This week is fast becoming the mobile contactless payment week, in fact we may just ask the government to rename it this time next year. First Google announces that it’s adding near field communication (NFC) to their next mobile the Nexus S. Then the US networks form ISIS an NFC coalition to get NFC going,…
News
The whole mobile dev cycle in one diagram
Vision Mobile have been hard at work creating a single infographic that sums up the mobile development cycle from start, to app, and we’re very pleased to be able to show off the graphic. The infographic is based on VisionMobile’s Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond, research report that tracked the entire mobile developer journey, from…