Google clamps down on Android fiddlers and tweakers
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====== Getting your business mobile ======
Monthly Archives: March 2011
At last – Google gets tough with Android
New augmented reality marketing guide
62% of marketers are considering using the technology, but the majority are still unsure how it works - Go Figure!
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Windows Phone to be the number two mobile OS by 2015
Smartphone sales are to grow by nearly 50% in 2011 and for Windows Phone to be the number 2 OS by 2015.
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ViewSonic try for free tablet computer
Viewsonic allow users to try out the ViewPad 7 for 30 days for free, could this be a free way to test your tablet apps?
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Amex serves up a new mobile payment system
American Express launches Serve mobile payments platform on Android and Apple app stores.
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Mobile payments to get a boost from Google
Google is adding its name to the list of businesses planning on some sort of mobile payments system,
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BlackBerry app developers get free Webtrends analytics
Webtrends official blog has announced that they’ve officially launched their free analytics service to BlackBerry app developers. Webtrends, Director of Mobile Analytics, Eric Rickson announced on the Webtrends official blog “We are excited to announce that BlackBerry Analytics powered by Webtrends is now available to the general public in open Beta”. According to Rickson...
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More than half of Americans on Facebook
New study shows more than half of Americans are now registered with Facebook According to the upcoming report from Arbitron and Edison Research, The Infinite Dial 2011: Navigating Digital Platforms, more than half of all Americans ages 12 and older are on Facebook. The study, fielded in January of 2011, indicates that 51% of...
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Three and Vodafone go head to head on the iPad 2
Find out which stores near you have the iPad 2 on sale.
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It’s official – BlackBerry PlayBook to run Android apps
RIM has announced that it will let the PlayBook run BlackBerry Java apps and Android v2.3 apps.
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App discovery still creating problems
App discovery is still a major problem for app builders, but there's some good news for Android developers as more say they'll move to Android for their next phone.
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Mobile ad sales held back by short-sighted ad agencies
A new report reveals why mobile advertising is not advancing as fast as mobile handset sales Following on from the disappointing figures for mobile advertising revenue in 2010 that we reported yesterday we get a new white paper that explains some of the reasons behind the disappointing figures. New research by mobile research agency...
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Amazon launches Android Appstore in US
Amazon has launched its own Android Appstore in the US to compete with Google’s Android Market store, and offers an innovative “Test Drive” try-before-you-buy service. Amazon has finally launched its Amazon Appstore for Android, offering consumers in the US the choice of either downloading applications for Android smartphones and tablets on their site or...
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UK mobile advertising grew by 116% in 2010
Mobile advertising spend grew by 116% over the last year to hit £83m According to research carried out by the IAB and accountancy firm PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC) advertising spend increased by over 100%, and although a 116% increase is a lot, it’s not what we expected considering the growth in smartphone handsets. Search commanded the...
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Debenhams make £1 million sales from their iPhone app
Debenhams iPhone app has boosted Debenhams sales by over £1 million in the last five months, and has prompted them to launch a new Android and Nokia app. Following the success of their iPhone app Debenhams has launched an app for Android and Nokia phones, making the retailer the first on the high street...
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iPad apps outnumber Ovi, BlackBerry and Windows combined
Apple now has over 300,000 iPhone apps in the US, more than twice the nearest competitor according to February’s Distimo figures The latest Distimo report for Feb 2011 looks in depth at the Mac app store and has some interesting things to say about Mac desktop app users versus Apple mobile app users. Distimo...
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Shipments of smartphones to exceed 1 billion per year by 2015
Shipments of smartphones grew 74% in 2010, and are set to hit the billion mark by 2015. According to a new research report by Berg Insight, global shipments of smartphones increased 74% in 2010 to 295 million units. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.4%, shipments are forecasted to reach 1,200...
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Vodafone pre-registration for iPad 2 opens
We’re just a few weeks away from the launch of the Apple iPad 2 and the networks are starting to come out of the woodwork. The first is Vodafone. Vodafone have opened up their web registration for the iPad 2 launch – it’s the 25th March just in case you have forgotten or live...
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Google launches AdMob toolkit for Windows Phone 7
Google have launched an AdMob beta SDK for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) so Windows app developers can get access to revenue and advertisers can exploit the new OS. The new Beta WP7 developers allows developers to integrate advertising into their applications, control where the ads appear, and what types of ads are shown in...
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Tesco sells more Android phones than iPhones
Tesco now sells more Android phones than iPhones. File under “It had to happen”, Mobile Today has a report that Tesco are now selling more Android phones than iPhones. It comes as no surprise that Apple iPhones are being outsold by Android, after all there are more models and more manufacturers producing Android phones,...
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