The US mobile market now has more subscribers than the population and data usage is set to hit 1 exabyte in 2010. So are we heading for a data crunch and tiered pricing sooner rather than later? Analyst Chetan Sharma’s view of the US third quarter mobile market is out and the top line figures…
Month: November 2010
Apps, iPhone
Gino D’Acampo Eating Italian app on iPhone and iPad
Gino D’Acampo, Italian chef and TV personality, has launched Eating Italian an app available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Created in collaboration with digital licensing company dot.Talent – they work with celebrity talent to acquire rights, create content, and publish in formats across Mobile, Web and Social Media – and launched to coincide with…
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HTC to launch an app store
According to a story on the Financial Times (HTC to target online app store) website, mobile manufacturer HTC will be the latest business to join a long list of businesses. If the reports is true HTC will join a very very long list of businesses already operating app stores, including Apple, Nokia, Orange, Research In…
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Spending on mobile broadband up 40% year on year
A study into mobile broadband usage across Europe has shown a 40% rise on usage from 2009 and the majority of use is from devices smaller than a laptop, with a quarter on smartphones and smart devices. Nokia Siemens Networks’ Mobile Broadband Study 2010 has reported a 40% increase in average monthly spend on mobile…
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Foursquare fails to fascinate
Services like Foursquare and Gowalla are proving less than useful for most of the public. Foursquare seems to be an apt name for “geosocial” service as Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that just 4% of online adults are using a location-based apps like Foursquare or Gowalla on their mobile phones, and on any…
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Google Instant comes to Android and iPhone
Google has begun rolling out its Google Instant functionality to Android and iPhone handsets in the US with the promise of UK and rest of the world to come in the “coming months”. Like it’s desktop equivalent Google Instant for mobile is designed to make searches faster by delivering the results in real-time as the…
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Creative tabs
Creative Labs, are set to launch two new Android tablet devices and add their name to the long list of manufacturers aiming to benefit from the Apple Halo effect. Creative will be launching two “entertainment” devices, a 7in and a 10in tablet based on the Android OS. The Android 2.1 Creative ZiiO 10″ comes with…
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Google AdSense now comes with added app ad slots
Google have integrated AdMob and AdSense and it’s good news all round, as both advertisers looking for new ad slots and app builders looking for extra revenue should be catered for from the off. It’s six months since Google finally acquired mobile advertising platform AdMob, and Google have celebrated the day by announcing that it’s…
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US Mobile advertising to hit $5 billion a year by 2015
US Mobile advertising specialist Smaato is predicting that the US mobile advertising market will hit a $5 billion mobile ad spend. According to Smaato the US is the second largest market globally in terms of mobile advertising spending behind Japan. By the end of 2010 the US mobile advertising market size is expected to be…
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Wired UK now on iPad
Tech bible Wired, has launched an iPad version of it’s UK version. Wired UK has finally unveiled its iPad, the £2.39 download version is out alongside its December print edition priced at £3.99. The mag will be a one-off to test the market and if it works they may make it monthly. The US iPad…
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Mobile ads are reaching 1 in 4 Americans
Mobile advertising company Millennial Media has revealed that its ad network had reached 73.5 million unique users in the US in the last 12 months, that’s one in four of the population and more than 80% of mobile web users (according to Nielsen figures which put the total US mobile market at 82 million) .…
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Smartphone traffic to increase 700% by 2015
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…
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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…
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Apple to offer own brand SIMs – What Next? An Apple network
According to a report on technology news site GigaOM, Apple are planning on setting up their own SIM card deal. Not content with selling phones to every operator, it seems like Apple – if the rumours are true – are to launch their own SIM card deal. The move would let customers buy and activate…