Microsoft looks to be starting the year with an update to its Windows Phone 7 system and to the app market, it’s also announced that the Windows Phone 7 marketplace is adding 100 new apps a day. Plans to enhance Windows Phone 7 were confirmed by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer at the Microsoft keynote…
Day: 10 January 2011
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m-commerce on eBay hits $2 billion in 2010
According to eBay the way people shop is changing from in-store and e-commerce to m-commerce, and although we think it’s a little premature to say that, the green shoots are there. In 2010 eBay’s mobile sales tripled from $600 million in 2009 to nearly $2 billion and it’s mostly fuelled by the eBay app, with…
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More iPad 2 Feb 2011 rumours
We’re just 10 days into 2011 and the iPad 2 rumour mill is still going strong, so not to be outdone, we thought we would add our two pennies worth. Before Christmas we posted a story (Apple to ship ipad 2 for Feb 2011) from Digitimes saying that the iPad manufacturer Foxconn was ramping up…
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2010 maybe the last year that Apple dominates the app market?
Distimo have published their round up of the app market in 2010 and it looks like 2010 maybe the last year that Apple dominates the app market statistics, and this year may see a turn from paid apps as standard to subscription-based apps as the norm. The Apple App Store is – as expected –…