Social media and social gaming dominate mobile broadband data traffic according to new traffic statistics released by mobile operator Three. But do we really trust the stats – read on for the sorry tale of just how confused some telecomms operators can be. For the first time – to our knowledge – a network has…
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European mobile usage on the up
UK and US mobile users are downloading more than 10 mobile pages a day, and that’s growing by more than 60% a year. Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report (http://www.opera.com/smw/) shows a continuing upwards trend in mobile usage, page views in the top 10 countries of the EU increased by 58.4% year on year,…
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Global smartphone shipments reach 77 million in Q3
Figures from analysts Smart Analytics confirm earlier figures from ABI Research that smartphone sales are continuing to increase at supersonic rates. The Smart Analytic Q3 figures show global shipments of smartphones reached a record 77 million units and annual growth hit an impressive 78%. Apple was the best performer and has overtaken RIM and is…
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Smartphones account for one in five phones shipped
New figures show that the smartphones are now accounting for one in every five phones shipped, that’s up from one in ten this time last year. The smartphone markets are continuing to forge ahead at an extraordinary pace. According to ABI Research, smartphones made up 19% of all handsets shipped in the second quarter; that…
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BlackBerry App World web storefront launches
RIM have updated their BlackBerry App World with the ability to buy apps from the web. RIM have update their BlackBerry App World with some additional functionality and at the same time released a few additional figures. Since BlackBerry App World surpassed the 10,000 application mark back in September things have been going well, RIM…
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Mobile internet increasing by 100% every eight months
One in five web page’s will be downloaded from a mobile device by October 2012 The big graphic of the week comes from NetMarketshare, and it’s a graph of the mobile device share of the internet. As you can see the graph is shaping up to be a classic hockey-stick exponential trajectory. Starting with relatively…
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One in ten iPad users still not downloaded an app
Nielsen at the end of last week produced a survey of more than 5,000 consumers who already own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media/games player, or smartphone, and there’s some interesting reading. It seems that although the iPad is incredibly succesful there are still a few owners – nearly 1 in 10 – who just…
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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for mobile publishers
Adobe’s new Digital Publishing Suite , launched today is designed to provide publishers and developers with a set of hosted services and viewer technology to create, publish, optimise and sell digital content direct to consumers. The suite is put together from Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe InDesign CS5 software, and adds additional functionality including a…
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Adobe extends AIR apps and creates their own app market
Adobe have announced extensions to their AIR applications, and a new app market the Adobe InMarket. One of the key solutions launching at Adobe’s MAX conference today will be an extension of their AIR applications to a whole new set of mobile devices, including BlackBerry Tablet OS, Android, Apple, and through to TV’s from Samsung.…
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Adobe taking it to the MAX
Adobe are releasing a huge range of new functions and services for mobile developers at their annual MAX show in Los Angeles later today. At it’s annual MAX conference Adobe will be showing off a whole suite of applications and technologies intended to make it easier for designers, developers and content owners to build apps…
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UK mobile ad revenues to rise to £357 million by 2015
Total UK revenues for mobile content and services, mobile advertising and marketing, will be £407.10 million in 2010, rising to £1.10 billion in 2015, according to a report from mobileSQUARED. The ‘Mobile Market Trends: UK: Usage and Revenue Forecasts to 2015‘ report says revenue growth will primarily be driven by increased mobile advertising spend —…
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US Mobile ad spending up by 79 percent to $743 million
US mobile ad spending is to surpass $1 billion next year, but it looks like spending is slowing down. According to a new report from eMarketer, US mobile advertising spending will hit $1 billion in 2011, up from an expected $743 million in 2010, which itself is up by 79% from $416 million in 2009.…
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Taking the app to the Mac
How strange that on the day that Microsoft chose to launch the first Windows Phone 7 product Apple have decided to announce that, they’re about to take their app store to the Mac. Do you think the two are possibly connected? At an Apple product launch for the new MacBook Air, Apple made the announcement…
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Mobile-friendly sites expanding at 1000 percent a year
dotMobi, announced third annual study on mobile Web trends shows that the mobile Web is continuing its explosive global growth and at a faster pace than desktop. The dotMobi “Mobile Web Progress” now in its third-year, examines websites aimed at mobile users, and there’s been a significant leap in the number of sites catering for…
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Mobile sat nav usage up
A navigation survey conducted by ABI Research has revealed that just as predicted, when Nokia and Google took the decision to deliver mapping for free, it hastened the invitable demise of the mass-market purpose-built sat nav industry. The ABI survey “2010 Navigation Survey Highlights Comparison: 2009 and 2010 Results from US, UK, Germany, and France”…
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Google mobile search up 500%
Mobile search is starting to make significant growth confirms Google, and Android users are responsible for much of that growth. It looks like all those millions of people sitting on their couch with their iPhones, watching TV and searching the Internet Movie Database for the name of the actor in the episode of The Bill…
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91% growth in iPhone sales
For months the media have been saying that the antennagate affair would have a serious affect on iPhone sales, and the results from Apple’s latest quarter revenue results, show it has, but not in the way everyone thought. Apple reported it’s highest ever quarterly revenue and earnings, and iPhone sales have gone through the roof,…
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Opera joins the Wholesale Applications Community
Browser and widget builders Opera are joining the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). For those of you who don’t know. The WAC is an alliance of the leading mobile operators such as China Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and others, that works together to define, create and deploy a common mobile application platform. And Opera is the…
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Last chance to win a mobile scholarship for MEX
It’s your last chance to win a MEX (Mobile User Experience) scholarship worth £1499, for the next MEX conference. The MEX Scholarships are there to help people rich in ideas, but low on budget, to take part at MEX and share their thoughts on making better mobile experiences, and the latest MEX Scholarships close on…
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Mobile Apps World starts Tomorrow
Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience at Microsoft has been confirmed as the opening keynote speaker at the Mobile App World conference, taking place in London on 19 and 20 October – Yes that’s tomorrow and Wednesday. This is your last chance to register for what looks like it should be a great event. The…