The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) announced nine more companies are joining its initiative to build applications that will work across multiple devices and multiple operators, but what we all want to know is where are the apps? The latest companies to join the initiative are Sony Ericsson, Sharp, Russian operator Vimpelcom, Aepona, Camber Tech, GClue,…
Month: November 2010
Analysis, News
Isis shows the way for mobile NFC payments
It’s interesting to see that on the day that Google’s CEO announces a new mobile phone, complete with Near Field Communication (NFC) that the three US major networks launch a joint venture to promote NFC. Could they be linked? It’s also interesting to see how the US is going about using NFC in mobile compared…
News, Video
More new mobile payment systems arrive
Mobile payment systems for those without bank accounts and access to banks received a boost today as a new US mobile payment system received a $16 million investment. US cash payment service PayNearMe has received another $16 million in funding (The company previously raised $6.3 million in funding) and is launching a new mobile payment…
News
Nexus Two coming this Christmas
The Google Nexus One launched earlier this year and removed from sale after a relatively short period is to have a successor and this time it’s a phone designed to make all the m-commerce gurus happy. Speaking at the current Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt revealed the new device, and…
Analysis, News
Tablets may not hit Q4 targets
Apple’s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated according to an interview with Bloomberg by US analyst Ashok Kumar of Rodman & Renshaw. Kumar expects that the current belt-tightening to have a real effect on tablet sales, as consumers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones…
News
Sofa and bed surfing on the rise
Mobile advertising marketplace Adfonic have been digging into their consumer and click-through stats, and have found a few interesting insights – particularly if you’re one of those businesses who take no account of the rise of smartphones like the iPhone and iPad. The midnight hour Adfonics hourly click patterns show that smartphone traffic starts to…
Features
iPad and iPhone best practice from Condé Nast
US publisher Condé Nast, which was the first magazine publisher to offer digital magazines (GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired and Glamour) on the iPhone and iPad, and released some key insights back in October, and we’re a bit late we know, but the advice is timeless so we’re happy to repeat it here. The insights are…
Video
Why you need a mobile strategy
We’re constantly asked “why do we need a mobile strategy?” and we think that this video explains why in just over three minutes. Thanks Sybase [ad name=”Google Text half banner advert “]
Analysis
Network capacity hit by a perfect storm
We really don’t want to be accused of running around shouting that the sky is about to fall on our heads like Chicken Little, but figures from Amdocs about the capacity crunch seem to indicate that not only is the sky falling on our heads, but in places it’s already fallen on our heads. Rumours…
News
The network crunch, coming to a phone near you soon
According to a panel of worldwide network planning experts the capacity crunch is upon us already. Earlier this year Cisco said that it expected wireless data traffic to double every year from 2009 through 2014 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 108%. With some regions and individual countries will see growth far in…
News
Worldwide mobile trends revealed
It’s hard to find many reports that give details of exactly how mobile users work and play with their phones. The Sybase 365 “Global Consumer Acceptance and Usage Report” is a worthy exception and while it was released some time ago – April 2010 – it does contain some really valuable nuggets of information. The…
News
Mobile use of YouTube exploding
Google has revealed some interesting stats for mobile video today. According to Johanna Werther, Advertiser Lead PMM, Google Mobile Display Marketing, 75% of YouTube Mobile users say that their mobile is the number one device they use to watch YouTube videos on. Posting on the Google Mobile Ads blog Werther describes usage of m.youtube.com as…
News
Android now powers 25 percent of all smartphones
The latest figures from analysts Gartner show Android is now at the heart of 25% of all smartphones worldwide, up from 3.5% at this time last year. Additionally Gartner forecasts that media tablets (such as the Apple iPad) will reach 54.8 million units in 2011. Worldwide Sales Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled…
Features
10 Top tips for developing mobile applications for your workforce
With the increase in the use of smartphones within business, there’s now a real incentive for businesses to mobilise their web sites and their line-of-business applications, such as accounts, marketing apps, and their CRM apps. However there are a number of key considerations to bear in mind before you commit to this strategy. In the…
Analysis, News
iPad app market now 14% of total Apple app store market
Distimo’s regular US monthly app report is out for the month of October and it shows that Apple app developers appear to be prone to cheating on their old-faithful iPhone with the new high-class rich thing in town the iPad. Distimo found that the proportion of iPad-only applications outgrew the proportion of universal applications during…
Directory, Products
Adding video to mcommerce just got easier
Video has always been one of the things to avoid when it comes to mobile, it’s hard to download for the user, and it’s even harder to create multiple different versions of a video for each handset, but a new system spearheaded by Invodo and cloud-based mcommerce business Digby, is set to make things easier…
Analysis, News
Amazon announces 70% royalty rates to publishers
Amazon will start paying publishers 70% revenue rates when they sell magazines and newspapers on its Kindle electronic reader. Last month we reported on Amazon announcing they were raising their Kindle loyalty rate to UK authors and publishers for ebooks sold via Amazon’s self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform. This month Amazon have gone one step…
News
Gartner to CEOs: Seize the iPad opportunity now
Embrace the iPad or suffer the consequences Gartner tells businesses. Analysts Gartner have told businesses in the report ‘CEO Advisory: Seize the iPad Opportunity Now’ that they should ignore tablet computing at their peril, and that technologists in the business and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) should open up their networks to tablets and smartphone users.…
News
Connecting your smartphone to the business network
Connecting smartphones to your business network has always been complicated, but Vodafone might just have an easy solution for you. Vodafone’s Smartphone Professional is aimed at big business and focuses on the data security aspect of business mobility, enabling IT administrators to control applications, restrict a device’s functionality and remotely wipe corporate data from a…
News
56% of current smartphone users are seriously considering an Apple iPhone
Smartphones are becoming the defacto standard for users according to all the Q3 results posted so far, and it seems they’re going to be even more popular in the months to come if new stats from a US survey are to be believed. They’re also due to make significant changes to the way we shop.…