Twitter’s mobile user numbers have increased 62% since April following efforts to make the service easier to discover and use on smartphones. A post on blog.twitter.com by Evan Williams Twitter co-founder and CEO added that 16% of all new Twitter users were using it on mobile and that 46% of all active users regularly use…
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Nokia replaces Kallasvuo with Microsoft’s Elop
Nokia ousts chief executive and brings in Microsoft business head Stephen Elop as mobile phone maker struggles to compete with Apple iPhone and Google Android handsets
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Apple opens App Store to programs written in Adobe Flash – and more
Flash developers stand to benefit as app review guidelines are also published – but Apple will do well as more apps can be developed for iPhone and iPad
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Autonomous mobile search is the new future
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt closed this years IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin with some thoughts about search and mobile. It’s a reflection of just how important mobile really is that the head of one of the largest technology businesses in the world takes time to look at mobile and talk about mobile in the…
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Apple will dominate tablet market until 2012
According to research from analysts iSuppli Apple are set to dominate the tablet computing field at least until 2010, and won’t really start to see any competition until at least Q2 of 2011, allowing the company to maintain a dominant share in the tablet market at least through 2012. According to iSuppli’s research the iPad…
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BlackBerry buys DataViz
The one app that BlackBerry users have always moaned about not having, is an app that gives you the ability to actually edit those darn Microsoft Office files that people keep attaching to the emails. Luckily someone else managed to rectify this sometime ago, and DataViz have been making rather a lot of cash out…
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Three to get Samsung Galaxy Tab
Three have announced that they will be one of the first networks to get the Samsung Galaxy tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab (GT-P1000) for those of you who have been on planet Mars – or like us Northumberland – for the last two weeks is Samsung’s Android tablet aimed at attacking the growing Apple iPad…
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Tesco grocery iPhone app
Tesco’s head of R&D Nick Lansley has leaked a few pics of the new Tesco grocery iPhone app – which should be released on to the iTunes store from 6am tomorrow (9 Sept 2010) – along with some descriptions of how it will work. UPDATE – The app is now launched and available on iTunes…
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IDC bet on Android to continue to top Apple iOS
According to a recent post on eweek a new research note from IDC has predicted that Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, both Apple and BlackBerry will experience declines. Which is stating the obvious but it’s always good to reinforce the message that mobile is not just all…
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Saleforce to add Mobile angle to Chatter
Cloud computing poster boys Salesforce, are to launch a mobile angle to their Chatter social media service. When Chatter Mobile launches, users will be able to monitor their Chatter feeds, including posts from colleagues and alerts from apps, as well as post status updates and comment on relevant conversations. “Chatter Mobile means you can know…
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Find an office with an app
Serviced office business Regus are the latest business to launch a mobile app for the iPhone. The app is aimed at the 500,000 Regus users worldwide and allows them – and anyone who downloads the free app – to find office space and conference rooms near them from a selection of 1100 locations in 85…
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Nokia N8 gives you a chance to be a movie star
Nokia are to make short film with Pamela Anderson to promote the forthcoming Nokia N8. If you’re lucky/unlucky and free on the 20 September you could feature in a film alongside popular, Pro-PETA, pert Playboy, panto star Pamela Anderson.* The short film is produced by the McHenry brothers (a quick look on IMDB reveals they’re…
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Android web consumption rises off the back of Droid devices
More Android users are getting onto the mobile web bandwagon according to the latest traffic stats from Quancast, which show Google’s OS catching up with Apple’s iOS. Apple’s iOS platform is still a way ahead of Android in web browsing terms according to Quancast’s stats, but Android is rapidly gaining ground on its rival. In…
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Android tablet for under £130 launched
’70s retro label Binatone are to launch two, sub two hundred pound Android tablet devices. When we were young Binatone was the label that signified cheap and cheerful audio goods, from hi-fi’s to alarm clock radios. Over the intervening years it’s changed and is now concentrating on the portable electronics market, and it’s recently done…
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Viewsonic unveils iPad rivals
Details for two new iPad competitors hit our desk this week, the dual-boot Android/Windows ViewSonic ViewPad 100 and the ViewPad 7. Of the two the ViewPad’s the 100 is aimed firmly at the iPad market, where as the 7 could be a cut-down iPad competitor. The ViewPad 7 is described by ViewSonic as the “world’s…
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Gig tickets? there’s an app for that
O2 have launched a new iPhone app called Priority, which ties into its Priority Tickets service. The app, which is free, lets people buy tickets to gigs and events at over 1,500 venues around the UK up to 48 hours before general release. If you’re a non-iPhone owners then you’ll have to wait a bit.…
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Businesses set to spend £1.17 billion on location based ads by 2015
Location-based advertising is still in its infancy, but according to a new study from ABI Research, businesses are primed to spend $1.8 billion (£1.17 billion) on it in 2015 as part of their overall mobile marketing budgets. “It’s still early days and there’s no single ‘right’ approach to location-based advertising,” says practice director Neil Strother.…
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New BT Wifi finding app for iPhone and Android
BT have launched a package of new free smartphone apps to help users find and connect to its Wifi hotspots. The new apps available for both iPhone and Android based devices allow users to search for nearby hotspots including BT Openzone and BT FON and if users are BT customers, they can connect automatically. The…
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Mobile sales are up in UK by 5.15%
Using data collected at the point of sale, GfK found that second-quarter sales of mobile handsets were up 5.15% to 7.5m handsets, compared with the same period in 2009, thanks to a rebound in pay-as-you-go phones and continuing demand for smartphones. June turned in a particularly strong performance, up 6.8% on the prior year, capping…
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Android web browsing grows by 400% in US
Bango stats show web browsing on the rise for Android users. According to new statistics released by Bango mobile analytics and payment specialist, the volume of mobile web browsing from Android phones in the USA grew by 400% between Q1 and Q2 2010. In comparison the volume of growth from Apple devices was just 13% over…