Microsoft are actively looking for developers for Windows Phone 7 and they’re offering a “limited” number of handsets to prospective developers. Last week Microsoft announced that they would be giving away handsets to Windows Mobile 7 developers, and now they’re putting those claims into practice. Mike Ormond a developer evangelist at Microsoft, with responsibility for…
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Opera state of the UK mobile web
The UK mobile market is continuing to grow at a multi-digit rate according to Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web Report and there’s a welcome return of eBay into the top 10 most visited sites by mobile users. According to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report for June (http://www.opera.com/smw/) the UK’s mobile market…
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Africa went mobile for the World Cup
Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web Report covers the World Cup and explores mobile web trends in Africa, where growths of 100’s and 1000’s of percent isn’t unusual. Mobile web use is exploding in Africa, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report (http://www.opera.com/smw/). Triple-digit growth rates are routine in the region where…
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Vodafone offers €100,000 prize to the best UK mobile startup
Got a great idea for a mobile startup? Well good news, Vodafone are offering £83,750 (€100,000) to one lucky winner, (up from €75,000 last year) and a total prize pool of £125,649 (€150,000). The Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 contest to find the UK’s best mobile internet startup is now up and running and all you…
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Android phones now 13% of UK phone market
Android’s share of the UK mobile contract market has grown from 3% in Q1 2010 to reach 13.2% in Q2 2010, GfK Retail and Technology’s latest figures have revealed. During this period, while contract market sales grew by less than 1%, sales of Android phones increased by a staggering 350%. Phones with an advanced Operating…
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Apple iPad shipments to hit 12.9 million in 2010 and 50 million by 2012
Analysts iSuppli predicts Apple will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, but their figures for 2011 and 2012 are looking stratospheric. Analysts iSuppli have revised their iPad shipment figures quite significantly, instead of their April predictions of shipments of 7.1 million they now predict end of year sales to be nearer 13 million units, but…
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iPhone to launch in 17 new countries this week
Apple will be launching the black version of the iPhone 4 in 17 countries from this Friday 30 July. From Friday the iPhone 4 will be newly available in lots more countries in Europe and Scandinavia including; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland Additionally the iPhone will also…
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Amazon takes £645 million from mobile shoppers
Amazon.com generated revenues of £645 million ($1 billion) from mobile purchases during the last 12 months. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the statistic during the Amazon’s Q2 earnings release, and stressed the importance of mobile phones and tablet computers in the company’s future plans. The news comes just a few days after Amazon revealed that sales…
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iPad captured 6% of the worldwide netbook market
Analysts Canalys released its quarterly worldwide PC market data, and Apple has zoomed into the top five PC vendors, thanks to the iPad. The iPad captured approximately 6% of the portable PC segment in Q2 2010, with over 3 million units shipped during the device’s first few months on the market. Conversely, growth in the…
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More than half of UK mobile users never leave home without their mobile phone
More than half of UK mobile users never leave home without their mobile phone and 44% say they could not live without it. In a survey on telephone banking by Birmingham Midshires, the building soceity found that 51% of mobile users said they always took their mobile with them when they went out, with 26%…
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Apple launches iPhone 4 Case Program app
Gota problem with a screwed up antenna? Well there’s now an app for that. A week after promising free bumper cases to iPhone 4 customers affected by the antenna-gate reception issues, Apple introduced the iPhone 4 Case Program application, enabling consumers to apply for their bumper directly via mobile device. Available now for download via…
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Acer launch Stream high-end multimedia smartphone
PC manufacturer Acer have launched the Stream; an Android Amoled-based high-end multimedia smartphone, optimised for watching movies, listening to music and web browsing. The Stream is designed to be easy to use, and small – it’s just 11.2mm thick, but the screen is a massive 3.7″ – robust – it’s made from highly resistant materials,…
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How to choose a mobile domain name
Choosing a mobile domain name One of the hardest parts of building a mobile site is choosing what you’re going to call it. Not only do you have to choose a cool name for your URL, you also need to choose how you’re going to signify that it’s a mobile site. The options are. m.…
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Nuance launches new versions of Dictation and Search
Nuance has launched its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search applications to the UK Apple App Store, and they’re free – Nuance says for a limited time but they’ve been free in the US since launch last year so we think it’s going to be sometime if never before they start to charge. The two apps…
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You can have any colour as long as it’s black
To misquote Henry Ford, Apple have announced that you can have an iPhone in any colour you want as long as it’s black, well for the immediate future anyway. In a short announcement, the firm confirmed that the white unit had proved difficult to manufacture, while the official web store simply offers the message that…
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Android users learning to click
The Android mobile platform is making big gains in global click-through rates, according to Smaato’s Mobile Advertising Metrics report for June. Android, the iPhone and BlackBerry all gained in Smaato’s worldwide CTR index. However, it was Google’s mobile platform that made the biggest gains, as it surpassed Apple to achieve the third-highest worldwide CTR of…
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Mobile Loose Ends
Mobile Loose Ends – Some stories from the last two weeks that appealed to us and we thought were interesting and why. Shopkick get a kick from VCs The Wall Street Journal are finally realising that mobile is taking off and the reason they’re realising is that the VCs are starting to go into a…
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UK brands don’t understand the value of mobile visitors
A Bigmouthmedia survey has revealed that more than three quarters of the UK’s big brands do not understand the value of a visitor via mobile compared to other digital channels The research, which polled the views of key decision makers at a raft of leading UK companies, shows that despite a significant 89.2% of respondents…
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Easy WiFi – Trustive – iPhone App Review
We’ve had the Trustive iPhone App for a few months now as a backup for our normal 3G connection – which leaves a lot to be desired despite the networks assurance that it covers 90% of the country – and more importantly as an alternative to paying high data roaming costs. The app comes with…
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Smartphone shipments jump 43% to 60m units in Q2 2010
According to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments rose 43% annually to a record 60 million units during Q2 2010. Research show that the smartphone market is continuing to grow and it now accounts for 19% of total worldwide handset volumes, up from 15% a year earlier. The research firm…