We’d like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas – that’s Holidays to you in the US – and a very Happy New Year. We will be back in the New Year with more of the same. As it’s Christmas we though we would point you at two mobile-related charities and appeals. Give your old phones…
Month: December 2010
News
MMA launches new mobile privacy guidelines
Non-profit industry trade group the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has launched an initiative to develop a set of mobile privacy guidelines to complement its existing Global Code of Conduct. The new guidelines are intended to create greater transparency into how subscriber information is collected and used across mobile marketer efforts. The MMA plans to establish…
News
The rise of the two tablet household
An old acquaintance of ours once said “you know when you’re rich because you start to buy art.” Well that was a long time ago and the modern equivalent would be that you know when you’re too rich because you have more than one tablet, and just to prove our point a new survey from…
Apps, iPhone, Reviews
WorldCard Mobile – business card reader & business card scanner – Review
We’ve had a long relationship with business card readers here at Business Mobile, as journalists we get a lot of business cards, and we’d love to be able to liberate the data from them, but unfortunately it never happens, instead they just sit in boxes on our desks, and occasionally we have a rummage through,…
Analysis
What does 2011 hold for apps? – Guest post
We’re running a few articles about where the market will go in 2011, and this guest post is from Ed Thomas at App Developers UK who looks at where apps will be in 2011, take it away Ed. Have you downloaded just about every free mobile app possible and spent a fair few pounds on …
Apps, iPhone, News
Set a Guinness world record on your iPad
The Guinness book of World records has launched an updated iPad app and uniquely it allows you to set a world record from your iPad. The iPad-only app launched today allows users to attempt and set real Guinness World Records straight from their iPad. Three new record challenges have been designed specifically for the iPad…
News
Android to be the platform of choice for developers in 2011
Millennial Media’s November 2010 Mobile Mix report reveals that nearly a third of mobile developers are looking to develop for Android in 2011 The Millennial Media Mobile Mix report shows the choice of platform for developers in 2011 is Android with 29% of the developers polled, followed by the iPad (20%) and Windows Phone 7…
Directory, News, Products
The tizi brings live TV to your iPhone/iPad
The equinux tizi brings digital TV (DVB-T/TNT/DTT) directly to the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch via an integrated wi-fi hotspot. Getting live TV on your iPhone and iPad is on many people’s wish list, and now it’s possible, with a handy wi-fi TV transmitter from German manufacturers equinux. The pocket-sized tizi device, costs 149.95 Euros…
News
iPad and Android top trends on Twitter for 2010
Micro-blogging giant Twitter has released its list of the top trending topics on the platform for the year with Apple’s iPad and Google’s Android fighting it out for top ten placings. According to The Twitter blog , the Gulf oil spill, FIFA World Cup and the movie Inception were the top three overall trends for…
News
Angry Birds is the iTunes Rewind app of 2010
Apple has launched it’s iTunes Rewind 2010, which lists the best selling, top grossing and free apps for the iPhone and iPad of the year in the US and it’s no surprise that Angry Birds is the top app or near the top on nearly all the charts, Facebook probably only got the number one…
News
Mobile marketing company Internetq floats to £31 million valuation
Greek Mobile marketing and mobile community building company, Internetq floated on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today, valuing the business at more than £31 million at the market close. The business is one of the first mobile marketing businesses to float since the market started to take off earlier this year, and reveals just…
News
Apple to allow app sharing
A new Apple patent, which in theory will allow iPad, iPhone, and Mac users to share apps, has been unearthed. The new patent, discovered by web site Patently Apple, will allow iPhone, iPad and possible Mac app users on the new Mac app store to share apps with their friends. According to the Patently Apple…
News
Who doesn’t sell the iPad? Not Tesco?
Tesco have big full page ads in the papers today, to announce the iPad is now on sale at selected Tesco stores, and it’s also available online from Tesco Direct. However Tesco seem to have underestimated the UK’s desire to buy iPads. Unfortunately it’s no cheaper than the Apple online and offline stores, and the…
News
Android users do it more than iPhone users
Android users download more than iPhone users according to a new study issued by network management software solutions provider Arieso Arieso’s figures show that new smartphones users download up to 40% more data and upload more than 120% more data compared to Apple’s iPhone 3Gs. Using the iPhone 3GS as a benchmark, Arieso reports that…
News
Now we can all be Kindle publishers
Amazon have opened up their Kindle books to any platform that supports a web browser from eBooks to iPads, to the latest Google Chrome devices, so now anyone with a website can become a Kindle book publisher. Amazon announced that their “Kindle for the Web” service will expand to enable anyone with access to a…
News
50% of smartphone users ready for mobile commerce
A recent survey of consumer technology users “Consumer Technology Barometer: Mobile (Q3 2010)” conducted by ABI Research in the United States has revealed that nearly half of smartphone users say they have already, or soon will, use their phones to do mobile shopping. 53% also use, or intend to use, their smartphones for mobile banking.…
News
Orange launches new app initiative
In an effort to get more developers to build apps for their app store – yes they have an app store – Orange are trying to make the development and approval process more streamlined, and they’re offering a 70/30 split, at last.. Orange’s new Orange Partner Connect, is designed as a “one-stop shop” for developers…
News
Mobile ad platform Flurry gets a cash injection
There’s money in those mobile ad hills! Just a day after new ad platform MoPub received seed funding, smartphone application ads and analytics platform Flurry, gets $15 million in Series C round financing. The round was led by US Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures and included existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest, First Round Capital and Union…
News
Marks & Spencer’s mobile grabs the EMMAs
Retailer Marks & Spencer walked away with two awards at the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards (EMMAs) ceremony in London, making it the most awarded business of the night. The high-Street retailer, took the award for Most Effective Mobile Site, created by Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), and for Most Effective Mobile CRM/Enterprise Messaging Campaign, where it…
News, Products
DigiPos launches Mcommerce app platform
Solutions provider for retailers, DigiPoS, has launched its MobileShopper mcommerce ecosystem, and claims it’s the first off-the-shelf package to combine, an app, mcommerece, mobile coupons and self-scanning technologies and more, in one solution. The MobileShopper iPhone app combines online shopping with the in-store experience, and is aimed at propelling retailers into the future; with the…