Android has released a preview of it’s Honeycomb (Android 3.0 ) platform and it’s very tablet friendly. It also features a new interface and has plenty of new and interesting features. Google released details of it’s next major version of the Android operating system on the Android Developers Blog.The post by Xavier Ducrohet, the Android…
Month: January 2011
News
Two million Windows 7 phones in the channel
Microsoft’s senior product manager Greg Sullivan said in an interview with Bloomberg that it sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices to carriers and retail partners last quarter. The weasel words here are “to carriers and retail partners” this is not the number sold, there could be 1.9 million boxes sat around unsold in…
News
Mobile marketing to surpass $1 billion in the US in 2011
Forrester Research has published its annual mobile technology outlook for 2011, and it’s top prediction is for mobile marketing to surpass $1 billion in the US alone. The research outlines Forrester’s top-level projections for the year ahead, and includes a quick look at their predictions from last year. Forrester gave itself a “B+,” saying nearly…
News
Mobile developers are switching to tablet apps over Android
Tablets – particularly iPad tablets – are hot property with mobile developers according to the Appcelerator Mobile Developer Report, and the desire to get a iPad app out has put developers off developing for Android. Appcelerator and IDC surveyed 2,235 Appcelerator Titanium developers from January 10-12, 2011 on perceptions surrounding mobile OS priorities, feature priorities,…
Analysis, News
Apple adding mobile payments in iPad and iPhone
The rumours that Apple is to build-in mobile payments into the iPhone 5 are old, but now the rumour is that payments will also be built into the iPad 2 and enable iTunes for m-payments. According to the report in Bloomberg Apple will embed a NFC-based mobile payment services into the next iteration of its…
News
Enter the Developer Economics 2011 mobile developer survey and win
Give your opinion on the state of the future mobile development platforms, and get a chance to win an Amazon voucher for $1,500 and free device testing time for your business. Mobile device testing business Vision Mobile are launching their Developer Economics 2011 mobile developer survey, and they need your help all you have to…
mcommerce, News
Starbucks rolls out mobile payments in the US
Seattle based coffee store Starbucks is to roll out a mobile payment service to over 7,800 stores in the US. Starbucks has been piloting a mobile payments system since September 2009 in stores in Seattle and Silicon Valley and they’re so happy with the results they’re rolling out the system to all the 6,800 stores…
News
Nuance adds speech recognition to Android and iOS developers’ toolkits
Get speech recognition into your iPhone and Android apps for free with the Nuance Dragon speech recognition SDK. Speech is the new text when it comes to mobile, and if you want to include speech recognition into your Android and iOS apps then Nuance has just made it very easy with its’ Dragon Mobile SDK…
Events
Building mobile apps for the youth market webinar
If you want to build a mobile app for the youth market and haven’t a clue what the kidz want then this is a webinar for you. The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) in collaboration with Mobile Monday London presents a webinar to be held on January 27 aimed at those striving for a…
News
Apple’s App Store hits 10 BILLION downloads and 350K apps are now on the app store
Just a few days after kicking off its online counter, Apple’s app store has officially hit the 10 billion mark. Yes, only last week Apple launched it’s count down to 10 Billion downloads and now they’ve done it, the counter started off at around 9,900 million downloads and in less than a week they did…
mcommerce, News
Argos adds PayPal to it’s m-commerce offering
Argos has like many other m-commerce retailers has opted to add PayPal to it’s rosta of payment providers. Argos this weekend will be rolling out it’s 75th catalogue and at the same time it will be adding PayPal as a payment option to it’s e-commerce and m-commerce systems. Mobile is seen to be a potential…
News
Shake up at Google – Page is Chief and Brin is back on new products
Google co-founder Larry Page is to takeover as chief executive in April, and co-founder Sergey Brin is moved to new product development. The move is part of senior executive overhaul at the company to “streamline decision making” as it looks to bolster its position in the face of competition from fast-growing rivals such as Facebook.…
News
M-commerce grows by 100% in Germany and US
Mobile commerce hit it’s stride in 2010 with an increase in the number of visits to Amazon.com towards the end of the year, compared to earlier in 2010. According to the latest Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report which views trends for December 2010, there was an increase in mobile commerce with United States…
News
GSMA nominees for 2011’s Annual Global Mobile Awards
The GSMA has announced the nominees for the 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards and it’s a good mix of the usual suspects, the blatantly obvious and some real gems. The hotly contested device and manufacturer awards are probably an easy win for Apple. In the best device the iPhone 4 is up against the HTC…
News
iPad and iPhones now represent over 56 percent of Apple revenues
Apple sold over 16 million iPhones and 7 million iPads in the last quarter, and hit record revenues again, with the combined devices producing over $15 billion in revenue. Apple announced their first results in 2011 for the quarter ended 25 December 2010 and it looks like they had a great Christmas with bumper revenues…
News
Microsoft launches OneNote app for iPhone
Microsoft has taken the plunge and launched an Office app on the iPhone. Microsft has a few apps on the iPhone already, in the UK there’s Tag Reader and Windows Live Messenger and in the US they’re joined by Bing and WonderWall (no it’s not a homage to Oasis), but considering the lack of a…
News
A bumper year for Tesco Mobile with 25% growth
Tesco Mobile signed up it’s 2.5 millionth customer on Christmas Day, and had a bumper year in 2010 concluding with its best ever Christmas sales making it the largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the UK. While still way behind the big UK networks it’s worth a quick look at the success of Tesco’s…
News
YouTube mobile users watch 200 million videos a day
YouTube announced that it’s mobile users hit over 200 million video’s a day by the end of 2010 up from around 60-70 million a day at the start of the year. As you can see from the graph below the growth of video views via mobile on YouTube has near enough been a straight line…
News
Half of US consumers with smart phones use them to locate stores, find products and compare prices
American consumers are increasingly empowered by their mobile devices when it comes to researching products and finding the best prices, with three in ten using it in the 2010 Christmas shopping period, so says a GfK Roper Poll for SapientNitro published just before Christmas, The US survey found that Americans who own a “smart phone”…
News
Android to grow more than twice the rate of major competitors in 2011
Android will continue to grow at more than twice the rate of its major smart phone competitors in 2011, according to Analysts Canalys. Canalys Q3 2010 estimates, show the Android platform already claims a 25% share of the worldwide smart phone market, with over 20 million shipments of Android-based worldwide. ‘The growth of Android has…