Global mobile broadband users will grow from 500 million today to 3.5 billion by 2015, according to Ericsson’s broadband chief Magnus Ewerbring Magnus Ewerbring said at the Mobile Broadband World 2010 event in London that the rise in mobile broadband had “only just started”, and that the services being used will change radically in the…
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Microsoft show of the first Windows Phone 7 device
An HTC device known as the ‘Mondrian’ looks set to be one of the first major smartphones based on Microsoft’s long-awaited new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating system. The handset is seen in two Microsoft adverts showcasing WP7, which have appeared online ahead of the platform’s official launch. These adverts – targeted at the US…
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50 billion mobile devices: Who’ll get rich?
With Ericsson forecasting 50 billion people and “things” connected to mobile networks by 2020 (4.5 billion today) where will the next disruption come from? 50 billion mobile devices: Who’ll get rich? is a set of perspectives from Silicon Valley, London and Belfast that were presented at a MobileMonday Belfast& NISP CONNECT event last week (23…
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Mobile data bandwidth usage increases by 68%
A report by Allot MobileTrends shows a 68% growth in global mobile data bandwidth usage in first half (H1), 2010, with Twitter bandwidth jumping by 310%, Facebook by 200%, and YouTube by 123%. Allot Communications’s latest MobileTrends Report shows a significant growth for mobile data bandwidth in H1 of 2010. With video streaming applications continuing…
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Mobile App World 2010 October 19-20
A date for you diary – Mobile App World 2010- 19-20 October 2010 – Vinopolis London The core speaker programme for the Mobile App World 2010 conference, to be held on 19-20 October at Vinopolis, has been launched and it looks a great line-up, and if you’re an agency you can bring your clients for…
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RIM announces Playbook tablet device
Newest rival to Apple’s iPad gets regal launch in San Francisco, but won’t be on general sale until next year
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Searches for Android apps up by 466% year on year
Hitwise stats show that Google’s presence in the mobile market is growing with the searches for Android OS apps increasing by 466% in the last year. According to Hitwise’s monthly stats on search in the UK, searches for ‘android apps’ increased 6.25% in the last month and 466% year-on-year. Elsewhere in the stats, Hitwise report…
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Cardmobilli win Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010
Vodafone Group named Cardmobili as the winner of its Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 developer competition. The 100,000 Euro top prize at the Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition which awards the best mobile startup from Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom has this year gone to a Portugese startup, Cardmobili. Fending off competition from 159…
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App builders favour Android
Developers may soon be voting with their feet and abandoning iOS if an IDC/Appcelerator survey of mobile app developers is to be believed. A September 2010 developer survey from IDC, sponsored by app builder Appcelerator finds that despite developers only having nine countries to reap profits from paid apps, and the significant updates to the…
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Windows Phone 7 rumour mill
Microsoft are still not announcing the dates for the launch of Windows Phone 7, so the internet rumour mill has gone into overdrive. At the moment the betting is on a European launch first – Microsoft leaked this info at least a few months ago – with the date speculated as October 21. Where as…
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Android adding new countries to paid apps
Android developers have received an email with the good news that more markets are arriving, the bad news is they’re not saying which. If you selected to publish your paid apps in all locations then this is for you. The email (below) sent from the Android Market Team on 24 September tells developers that Android…
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Android, iOS, Bada.. Seabird!!!
Mozilla, home of the alternative open-source browser Firefox and e-mail software Thunderbird has released a spec for a potential new mobile operating system, named Seabird. Seabird is a concept developed for Mozilla’s Concept Series, an open forum for sharing your ideas, expertise & vision for the future of the Web, the Mozilla project and Firefox.…
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An early Christmas present for iPhone users, a keyboard
Online gadget site ThinkGeek has created its own add-on keyboard for the iPhone. The TK-421 fits around the iPhone like a case and then swivels open to reveal a full QWERTY pad. ThinkGeek has developed the TK-421 (its a Star Wars reference. They are nerds) for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, unfortunately the iPhone 3…
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Nearly one in 10 Americans own an e-reader
Eight percent of Americans use an e-reader, according to new data from Harris Interactive (http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/HI-Harris-Poll-eReaders-2010-09-22.pdf). On top of that, the research firm’s survey found that 12% of respondents who do not currently own an e-reader are likely to purchase one within the next six months. The survey also found that 53% of people with e-readers…
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Zuckerberg: Facebook’s mobile strategy is breadth not depth. Got that?
Co-founder of social network with more than 500 million users speaks about mobile phone plans
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Michael Dell whips out his seven-incher
Dell CEO Michael Dell has previewed a second Android tablet to complement its five-inch Streak device. Michael Dell was delivering the Wednesday Keynote “Innovation in the Enterprise” at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, when he started to describe the Dell Streak he then said “Of course, it’s nice to have a larger screen,”…
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iPad owners browse the web, read email and read the papers
Contrary to popular opinion the main use for the iPad is not as an expensive drinks tray, or as an upmarket etch-a-sketch for over paid executives but it’s as an electronic version of the daily paper, and owners of the iPads are more likely to be male and in your late twenties or early thirties,…
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INQ building a phone for Facebook?
Politicians have a great way of lying, it’s where they interpret a question absolutely truthfully, but if you’d asked them a slightly differently phrased question they would have have to have fessed up. Eg Did you sleep with a call girl? No because technically although we were in bed together all night neither of us…
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To Generation Y digital and mobile is the norm
A survey of US technology users and their attitudes to technology has revealed that smartphones and phones are increasingly playing a larger part in their daily lives – no matter what their age. The Forrester study “The State Of Consumers And Technology Benchmark 2010” report is a graphical analysis of Forrester’s North American Consumer Technographics…
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New fast Android typing app SwiftKey launches today
Get ready to start typing at lightning speed. SwiftKey by business startup TouchType has been in beta for the last three months and as of today – 23 September – it’s gone live on the android market – download here. By using special Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques SwiftKey claims to be able to predict your…