We normally ignore releases about new mobile advertising platforms, but this one made us sit up and take notice. MoPub – any company name with the word pub in it always gets our attention – is a new US ad serving platform start up created by ex employees of Google and AdMob, and is funded…
Month: December 2010
News
Halfords launch transactional mobile site
Halfords has launched its first ever transactional mobile website, and it’s the first mass UK retailer to offer PayPal as a mobile payment method. The transactional site builds on the success of Halfords’ mobile site, which went live in August, and adds further enhancements to the site in addition to the ability to pay for…
News
Apple to ship iPad 2 for Feb 2011?
The Digitimes has a story (Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by the end of February 2011) saying that Foxconn the manufacturer of Apple’s iPad have been given 100 days to produce and ship the first iPad 2 devices, so anyone thinking of getting a cheap subsidised iPad and who want to be cutting edge should…
News, Products
MobiCart launches m-commerce shopping cart platform
Geordie start up software business MobiCart has launched a free, m-commerce storefront development solution for Apple iOS and Google Android devices. The free software allows you to create an m-commerce store and is already getting big clients. First shown in September as a public Beta, MobiCart has now been released for general use by anyone…
Companies, News, Products
New UK mobile VoIP service from Vyke
Vyke Mobile, the global mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider, has just launched a UK specific service with a new UK website, and a new range of competitive mobile VoIP pricing services for the UK. As with most VoIP service Vyke customers can make free calls over WiFi and 3G to other Vyke customers ,…
News, Video
Google launches the Nexus S for Christmas
Google has launched its awaited second smartphone the Nexus S onto the market. The Nexus S comes less than a year after Google’s first mobile the Nexus One and it will be the first device to ship with Gingerbread aka Android 2.3. Phone features include a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip for non-contact payments, VOIP…
News
eBook sales to double to 30 million in 2011
eBook readers are set for big sales next year, with 100% growth expected. The market for eBook readers has until now been largely restricted to the United States, and in the US it has been led by Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Sony’s Reader. But according to ABI Research, starting in 2013 eBook…
News
In-app billing to be present in around 1 in 3 apps in 2011
In-app billing adoption has been slower than predicted but Bango forecasts this will change in 2011 with an estimated 30% of all apps next year expected to be using in-app billing, In the mobile market, in-app billing as a charging model has been talked about for a long time, but it has still to take…
News
Google grabs majority of US mobile search revenue
Google will end 2010 with a 59% share of the $877 million US mobile advertising market, according to a new report from IDC. The US mobile-ad market, including search and display ads, has more than doubled since last year, when it reached $368 million in sales. IDC attributes the growth to companies devoting larger slices…
News
Where to get the cheapest iPad in the UK
Subsidised iPads are here, and we have to admit we got it wrong, we predicted that they wouldn’t be on sale until after Christmas, yet here we are a week or so later eating humble pie, yes, they’re on sale before Christmas, how mad is that? However to help you choose the best deal we’ve…
News
Smartphones now used by 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers
comScore’s quarterly mobile figures for the three months to October 2010 reveal that nearly 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers are on smartphones, and Android continues to grow with a substantial 6.5% growth rate in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older who use mobile devices,…
News
Cheap iPads on Orange and T-Mobile
As we announced earlier subsidised iPads are now on sale at Three, and they’re now joined by Orange and T-Mobile. iPad on Orange Orange’s pay monthly subsidised iPad plans start at £199 for a 16Gb wifi + 3G, with a data plan offering 1Gb a month any time and an additional 1Gb “quiet time” eg…
News
Subsidised iPads appear on Three
Three, has now officially launched their subsidised iPads, and the pricing is very keen. The Three offer is in addition to the SIM-Only offer that it’s had since the iPad launch, and it’s only available in store, and not in all stores, the website lists around 123 stores around the UK – including Northern Ireland.…
News
Juniper Research 2011 mobile predictions
Juniper Research have put together their top ten predictions for 2011 in the mobile and wireless field, and it makes interesting reading, although there are no big surprises in the list, and many of the predictions have been predicted many times over in the last ten years. However, Juniper last year predicted that this year…
News
Dell finally set to launch the Venue Pro
Dell has finally put the Venue Pro on pre-order in the US, and it could be the catalyst that Microsoft are looking for to kick off sales of Windows Phone 7 devices. The figures we published earlier today from MobilesPlease for Windows Phone 7 phones started us thinking, why aren’t they selling well? What is…
News
Windows Mobile 7 a slow burner
According to figures from online retailer Mobilesplease (www.mobilesplease.co.uk) Windows Mobile 7 devices are not exactly selling like hot cakes, with WP7 devices accounting for just 3% of smartphone sales and a little under 2% of overall sales through Mobilesplease and their affiliates. Nokia will be happy with the figures as Symbian 3 handsets outsold Windows…
News
Smartphone market to increase by 67% in 2011
Morgan Stanley’s forecasts for 2011 and Q4 2010 show a bumper increase for Android, that should rocket them into the number one position. Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum thinks the smartphone market will grow to 297 million devices next year, up 62% year-over-year, with Android taking a 38% market share with 112 million Android shipments…
News
Blackberry overtakes Apple iOS
BlackBerry OS overtook Apple’s iOS for the first time in the UK and the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that for the first time in the UK the BlackBerry OS at 43.45% overtook Apple’s iOS which recorded…
News
eBay mobile sales up 146% on Cyber Monday
eBay has released some figures from Cyber Monday and for the first time they’ve included some mobile figures. The eBay shopping data results from Cyber Monday 2010 (November 29th) on eBay Mobile in the United States showed that mobile sales increased by 146 percent over Cyber Monday 2009, and globally, eBay’s mobile service is on…
News
Businesses very lax on mobile security
Businesses are proving to be extraordinarily lax when it comes to mobile security, with 64% of organisations allowing their users to store unencrypted company information on smartphone devices. Last week the Information Commissioner handed out the first of probably many more big fines to organisations, who didn’t take security seriously enough. It fined one business…