Nearly half (47%) of US adults access local news and information via mobile phones or tablet devices finds a new survey. The latest report “How mobile devices are changing community information environments” published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project looks at the way US adults are using mobile and follows up a report…
Month: March 2011
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Amazon Kindle gets bundled for free with mobiles
Carphone Warehouse are to bundle the Amazon Kindle with certain mobile phones. Amazon have now added Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK, to it’s long list of retailers already selling the Kindle. Carphone and Best Buy deals are an extension of a deals the two companies started in the US last September and they now…
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Analysts estimate 1 million iPad 2 sales over the first weekend
Analysts expect Apple to have sold close to a million iPad 2 devices on the debut weekend, creating around $633 million in revenue, and the Smart Cover may even break $1 billion in revenue this year. The iPad 2 went on sale on Friday at 5pm to walk in buyers and at 4am to online buyers and…
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Android app downloads exceeded 1.9 billion in 2010
Android in it’s various guises notched up 1.9 billion downloads in 2010, a quarter of the total 2010 downloads. 2010 saw considerable growth in the mobile applications market for both Apple and Google Android and more competition is expected in 2011. Despite more proactive involvement in app store development from other platform providers, Apple’s iTunes…
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Mobile web growth: 1 in 5 internet users don’t use a computer
On Device Research (ODR) surveyed over 15,204 people in 12 different countries to see how they were accessing the internet and the surprising results show just how many people are accessing the internet on mobile only. In the UK and US, a staggering 20% of Internet users are already mobile only users of the internet,…
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Android the best selling smartphone handset in the US
comScore’s January US figures from their MobiLens survey shows Android taking the lead among smartphone platforms with 31.2% market share, after two short months in second place. Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older with mobile phone almost 65.8 million (28%) now have a smartphones, that’s up 8% from the preceding three-month period and it…
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Get your entries in for the Lovie awards
The Webby awards have always been a bit of an American event despite their claims, so it’s good to see that we’re now getting a European version – The Lovie Awards. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) – the international organisation responsible for presenting the Webby Awards, Internet Week New York and…
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2010 mobile sales see Samsung growing fast
ABI Research figures for 2010 are all in and unsurprisingly Nokia still dominate the market with just over a third of the Worldwide market, however Samsung are catching up and account for one in five phones in the market. The ABI Research figures for Q4 2010 make for some interesting viewing. Nokia is still the…
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IAB launches new mobile web measurement guidelines
A joint task force, comprised of members of the IAB’s Mobile Advertising Committee and the MMA’s Measurement Committee, has released the “Mobile Web Advertising Measurement Guidelines”, which covers how businesses should approach measuring mobile web advertising. The intention of the guidelines is to get everyone – customers, advertisers and web publishers – singing from the…
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The iFart app business is on the market but is it a good buy?
The world of app revenue is murky to say the least, as you would expect, businesses don’t want to reveal revenue as they don’t want other’s to cash in. However at some point one of the successful businesses was going to come up for sale and one of the biggest names iFart is up for…
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Thinner, lighter, faster, better, iPad2 and it’s out this month
The iPad2 is finally out of the bag – or rather it will be to lucky people in the US in 9 days time – and it looks fantastic. The headline features are; thinner, lighter, more powerful, faster, with more features, an interesting cover, and all for the same price with the same 10 hour…
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US mobile data usage averaging 350 megabytes per month
Analyst Chetan Sharma have compiled a 2010 wireless data review for 2010 and there are some interesting stats from the US market. The latest US Mobile Data Market Update Q4 2010 and 2010 report from analyst Chetan Sharma has a bunker full of stats, the biggest of which is that US mobile subscriptions officially crossed the 100%…
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All BlackBerry devices to be NFC capable from now on
According to a report on website Near Field Communications World virtually all new BlackBerry devices released from now on will include Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities. At a Westminster e-forum on smartphones, tablets and apps, Research in Motion’s (RIM) UK managing director Stephen Bates suggested that almost all upcoming RIM BlackBerry smartphones and tablets would…
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Tablets to evolve into a $35 billion market by 2012
JPMorgan Securities expect tablet revenues and sales to increase more than they first predicted A Reuters report reveals brokers JPMorgan Securities expect tablets to evolve into a $35 billion market by 2012, eating into the share of PCs, and competition to drive down premium prices. The brokerage, has increased its forecast for tablet unit shipment…
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Mobile browsers still not ready for HTML5
Netbiscuits latest report demonstrates that unfortunately HTML5 is far from being the answer to all the questions facing mobile web application developers today. Cross-platform development business Netbiscuits has published a new edition of their free “Mobile Web Metrics Report”. The document provides up-to-date information on the HTML5 capabilities of top devices in the USA, the…