Tesco’s mobile guru Nick Lansley revealed in his Tech for Tesco blog that the best way to get your iPhone app in the top 5 list of most downloaded apps on the Apple app store is to buy some primetime TV coverage. The advert for the iPhone Tesco Groceries scanning feature aired first last Thursday…
Month: January 2011
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Android ad requests to Millennial Media grew by 3130% in 2010
Android ad requests to the Millennial Media ad platform grew by 3130% in 2010. 2010 was a bumper year for Android according to Millennial – who themselves did very well in 2010 they’re now third largest mobile ad network with 15.4% of the market – not only did they grow by 3130% over the year…
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Over 50s more likely to use mobile social networking than young
The over 50s are more likely to start using social networking sites on their mobiles than younger audiences, and they’re significantly wealthier than the youth market. The research, reported in Marketing Week comes from Kantar Media’s TGI MobiLens survey, and it makes very interesting reading, especially if you’re thinking about exploiting mobile in your business.…
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Is this what the iPad 2 will look like?
Mobile accessories business GearZap.com have what they think is the first video of the new iPad 2. The video was brought back by their product specialists from CES 2011 in Vegas. GearZap claim the video is of a dummy iPad 2 which GearZap believe was given to a Chinese supplier to help build iPad accessories…
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iPads and mobiles are changing our reading habits
The ReaditLater site has produced some fascinating research into the way mobile (iPhone and iPads to be precise) is affecting the way we read news and media. We now do most of our reading while we’re sat on the sofa watching TV. The survey looks at the reading trends culled from over 100 million articles…
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House of Fraser goes mobile
UK Department store chain House of Fraser entered the e-commerce comparatively recently (2007) but has quickly taken the plunge and launched a mobile site after seeing mobile traffic grow by 660% in the last six months. The new mobile site m.houseoffraser.co.uk has been specifically designed for use on mobile devices, in collaboration with market-leading mobile…
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The new CDMA iPhone in the hotspot
The rumours were true there is to be a new iPhone released on to the market, but rather than a next generation iPhone it’s going to be an iPhone that will work with the CDMA wireless network and you’ll be able to create a wireless hotspot with it, which should make iPad owning iPhone users…
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Teenagers are getting mobile and data savvy
New research from Nielsen shows young people around the world love their mobile phones, but they use them in vastly different ways. In China, the mobile internet reigns supreme. Seventy-three percent of Chinese mobile youth ages 15-24 reported using the mobile internet in the previous 30 days compared to 48% of US mobile youth and…
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Twitter not a mobile medium?
We always thought that Twitter was a mobile medium, but we’re surprised to find that actually more people use Twitter from a desktop, than from a mobile, and surprise surprise Twitter fans are all big TV watchers, with Glee being their favourite programme. According to Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo more than 40% of all Twitter…
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Android number 2 smartphone in US
comScore figures for the three month average period ending November 2010 shows a 6.4% increase for Android putting it firmly in second place ahead of the iPhone, and 7.5% behind RIM in the US smartphone market, which itself has seen a phenomenal growth of 10% in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share 61.5 million…
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Starmount launch in-store m-commerce solution
US commerce software developers Starmount have turned m-commerce on its head and have introduced an in-store mobile selling assistant, Engage, that works on iPhones and iPads and is intended for use by shop staff rather than customers. “With the advent of the smartphone as a personal shopping device, retailers are now faced with customers that are,…
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Windows Phone 7 updates due and marketplace hits 5,500 apps
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…
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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 –…