You’re on the road, a customer calls and he wants the latest version of a file, trouble is it’s on your laptop at home. What do you do? Well if you’ve got an iPad/iPhone or an Android phone you go and download Dropbox, and then you sit back calm in the knowledge that you now…
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Samsung’s app store achieves 10M downloads in Europe
Samsung is claiming its application store has passed the 10 million download mark in Europe, and it seems to be doing it off the back of games apps. The top three most popular Samsung Apps downloaded in Europe are Need for Speed Shift, Magic Torch and My Mirror. Need for Speed Shift is a car…
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Consumers want to respond to ads by mobile phone
Research from Lightspeed Research for the Mobile Marketing Association show’s that European consumers (UK, Germany and France) want a mobile choice when they click on an online ad, or respond to an ad in offline media. A quarter of consumers in Europe would be more likely to respond to an ad – including print, television,…
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All UK operators to support Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has announced that the big five mobile operators and two retailers will offer Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones when the new OS launches later this year, possibly October but nobody is willing to say exactly when. The list of operators includes Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3, along with retailers Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u.…
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China is the new app market
App developers should start leaning Chinese if a new study from Canalys is right. The Canalys Mobile Application Analysis services suite study shows that 51% of Chinese end users downloaded applications or games on their mobile phones – 29% more than their Western European counterparts. A similar Canalys survey carried out in France, Germany and…
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Ovi upgrades the app wizard
Nokia has just updated the Ovi app wizard, and all of the apps created with the app Wizard have just had a makeover. Publishers using the Ovi app Wizard have received an email this morning with news of a new update to the Ovi app wizard and an update to all of the apps created…
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Apple commences phase 2 of the World Domination plan
Look at the graphic to your right. Blink once, blink twice. Yes it really is still there. Apple “are” selling the iPhone in easy instalments, and it’s not going to make the mobile operators happy, it’s just going to make Apple richer, and it’s going to make the iPhone – the iPad can’t be too…
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A phone made for three sims?
Worldwide executive travellers like our good selves are always on the hunt for new and exciting technology that makes our life simple, and a dual-SIM phone is one of those must-have devices. But we’re now faced with a dilemma, is two enough? Should we be looking for a three SIM phone instead? Luckily, the clever…
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Facebook is the king of apps
Nielsen has launched the first update to its Nielsen App Playbook study, and to celebrate they’re sharing some of the data for free. The most recent version of the study has just been released and it is based on an August 2010 survey of more than 4,000 US mobile subscribers who had reported downloading a…
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Telegraph launches an iPad app
In our post earlier this morning we gave full marks to the FT for getting a sponsor for their initial iPad app, and now it’s the turn of the Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. The Telegraph for iPad application launched yesterday and is described as free for “a limited period” – they don’t say when…
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FT iPad app hits 400,000 downloads
Those who think the iPad and apps in general are just vanity products would have done well to listen to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. The iPad is far from a vanity product, it’s also a key way of making revenue. The FT’s Editor Lionel Barber speaking on the Today programme said…
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Location info from phones to be used to validate mcommerce
By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90% of mobile transactions, according to Gartner. Gartner said that the rapid adoption of smartphones is forcing banks, social networks and other e-commerce providers to implement the kinds of fraud detection capabilities that have become mainstream with fixed-line computing.…
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Microsoft to launch Zune store for WP7
Tech giant to launch store and subscription service for Xbox 360, Windows PCs and Windows Phone 7 phones within weeks
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O2 get promotional on their iPad data pricing
O2’s iPad customers are up in arms at O2’s decision to cut their monthly data allocations. O2 customers who signed up for the iPad were initially told they could choose from plans with a 500MB cap, a 1 GB cap, or a 3 GB cap, but O2 has changed it’s terms and those caps are…
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American drivers fear texts more than life
HLP Im a8out 2 CRASH LOL ;-( The American Automobile Association (AAA) has found that the majority of motorists on US roads feel less safe than they did five years ago, and what are they afraid of? Other motorists texting while driving. Nearly a quarter of Americans admitted to reading or texting while driving. The…
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Another Nokia exec out: UK head jumps to Pace as president
The music hasn’t stopped at the top levels of the Finnish mobile phone maker, which is losing a fourth top-level executive
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Diary Date – DroidCon London 28-29 Oct
Another date for you diary. This time it’s DroidCon a two-day London based Barcamp and conference for Android lovers in sunny Islington in late October. The first day will be a barcamp style day (think geeks, pizza, fizzy pop, tech, tech, tech) organised by attendees where everyone is encouraged to share in the things which…
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500,000 mobile apps are downloaded daily
New research from Borrell Associates finds that users don’t hold on to their apps According to Borrell Associates, worldwide we’re download some 500,000 apps per hour, unfortunately for developers and brands around the world, most of those apps are quickly discarded by consumers. The appallingly badly named report “Mobile Applications: Preparing for the App-ocalypse”, shows…
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BlackBerry users at 1.5million downloads a day
Research In Motion (RIM) has said that BlackBerry App World users are downloading more than 1.5 million apps per day on average. The total of 1.5 million downloads also represents a 40 percent increase for RIM over the previous, which is not bad considering that earlier this month they announced they had hit the 10,000…
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Facebook to deliver a mobile phone?
Reports over the weekend from sites like TechCrunch were all alight about the possibility of Facebook having their own phone. Facebook have of course denied it, but what if it were true? What would happen if Facebook had their own mobile? Well for a start it would make perfect economic sense. Many of the sites…