A new stat to impress the children has appeared on the Google Mobile Blog, according to Heaven Kim, Product Marketing person for Google Mobile “one in every four searches from an Android phone in the US is by voice.” We’re actually quite stunned by that fact here at Bmob as in the UK we haven’t…
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Condé Nast chief: up to 40% of sales could be on iPad
Nicholas Coleridge reveals publisher will launch paid-for applications for December issues of UK Wired and Vogue
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US mobile owners are downloading apps but not using them
A new extensive Pew Internet study on apps and their usage has come up with some stats that may worry developers out there. Yes, users are downloading apps, but relatively few users then subsequently use the apps. Which is oK if you’re planning on making revenues from a paid app, but disappointing if you’re planning…
News, Video
Mobile Twitter usage up by 250%
The number of people accessing Twitter from their mobile has grown by 250% since the start of this year, according to CEO Evan Williams. The statistic was one just one of many revealed by Williams at a press conference for the new redesigned Twitter that will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Williams…
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Nokia provides app developers with new tools for Ovi
There’s been some interesting news from Nokia World 2010 over Ovi that should make app developers very happy. The first bit of good news is the usage statistics for its Ovi Store. Liz Schimel, VP of music services & connected entertainment, stated that Ovi Store now has 130 million active users globally, with 2 million…
Analysis, News
Everyone is downloading apps, but they aren’t searching
Smartphones – not just iPhones – are encouraging users to download apps if new figures from Nielsen are to be believed, however none of them appear to be using search to find them. A new Nielsen survey shows that as of June 2010, 59% of smartphone owners and nearly 9% of feature phone owners report…
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UK Mobile ad market to grow 840% over next five years
The UK mobile advertising market looks set to finally come of age, with total revenues estimated to grow 840% from £27.47 million this year to £258.27 million by 2015, according to the latest data released by mobileSQUARED. In 2010, the mobile banner ad market will be worth £12.96 million, with search worth £9.86 million. However,…
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At Nokia World, developers ask: ‘Where’s MeeGo?’
Nokia World: Nokia is showing off its new phones based on its Symbian^3 operating system at Nokia World – but some are wondering how quickly its much-vaunted MeeGo project will bear fruit
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Win an iPad with goMobi
Website dotMobi recently launched goMobi, a product to help you increase your business by building and deploying mobile websites easier and fast. To publicise the launch goMobi have created a competition for the best website created, and the winner gets an iPad. All you need to do is design a goMobi site to be in…
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Nokia World 2010: Mobile giant will look to recapture greatness
The Finnish manufacturer is the embattled beast of the mobile market, today it must throw down the gauntlet to rivals
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Android closes in on mobile OS top spot say Gartner
Last week we reported that IDC were predicting Android would hit the number one spot, and this week it’s the turn of Gartner. Google’s Android could be on the verge of becoming the world’s largest smartphone operating system by 2014, according to new figures from Gartner. The research firm forecasts that by this point there…
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Consumers to become more accepting of in-app ads
Consumer demand for mobile applications will wear down resistance to in-app mobile ads, propelling the North American market to $2 billion by the end of the year, according to a new report by Parks Associates. The report Monetizing Downloadable Mobile Applications shows North American in-app ad revenue will surpass $860 million in 2014 and paid…
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Froyo use growing fast
Figures from the Google Android Developers website developers.android.com show that Froyo (Android version 2.2) is being downloaded and installed by a healthy number of users. Figures on the site (see below) show that over 28.7% of users accessing the Android Market within the last 14-days are using Froyo. This however does not mean that 28.7%…
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Happy 14 millionth app birthday Samsung
We’re still none the wiser to how many apps Samsung has on Bada, but thanks to Samsung US we now know they have had 14 million downloads of their apps. Samsung has marked the first anniversary of its Samsung Apps store by announcing that since the launch of Wave in June 2010 (the first smartphone…
Analysis, News
App figures round up – Android now number two
We’re just doing some work on applications here at Business Mobile for a business partner, and part of that is to try and see the size of the market, so we went hunting for figures on the number of applications in the wild. Unfortunately we just couldn’t find a single place with good figures that…
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Nokia’s revenue and profit trends point to its key problem: commoditisation
Analysis of the troubled mobile company’s financial results shows that its principal problem is that though it is selling more phones, the profit and price it gets are falling
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Nokia accounts for 47% of mobile ad impressions
Research from mobile ad network InMobi shows Nokia accounts for 48% of mobile ad impressions Nokia (including Symbian) accounts for 47.4% of global* consumer mobile ad impressions in July 2010, according to the first metrics report from mobile ad network InMobi. Global Manufacturer Share July 2010 Manufacturer Impressions %Share Change Nokia 9,661,872,987 47.4 -3.6 Samsung…
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Android to be number one mobile platform by 2015
Figures from Gartner show Android will be the number two platform by the end of 2010 and should surpass the number one platform Symbian – Yes we said Symbian not Apple or RIM – by the end of 2014. The worldwide mobile operating system (OS) market will be dominated by Symbian and Android, as the…
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Apps downloads to eclipse iTunes downloads
Mobile app developer and analysis firm asymco predicts that downloads via Apple’s App Store will exceed downloads from its iTunes music store by the end of 2010. asymco has been blogging around Apple quite a lot recently, and this week they’ve highlighted an interesting little stat. Asymco have noted that Apple’s recent announcement that the…
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Google instant for mobile coming soon
Google are to release a mobile version of their latest instant search technology by the end of the year. Yesterday we reported about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s intentions for everything to be released on mobile first, and today we have to point out that it’s just not happening. Google’s new Google Instant search facility is…