Can’t wait for Apple and the other manufacturers to get around to adding a payment solution? Then why not try this neat little key fob that retro fits Near Field Communication to any Wi-fi enabled phone? One of the first weird devices to come out of this years’ Mobile World Congress is a key fob…
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Nearly a third of Europeans browsed the web via mobile in Dec 2010
comScore have released a complete round up to the last year in mobile that includes some spectacular figures for December 2010. The inaugural comScore 2010 Mobile Year in Review, shows 29% of Europeans browsed the mobile web in December 2010, and smartphones account for 31% of the mobile market. The report looks at key trends…
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40% of consumers reach for a mobile when they see an advert
Research from the Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) mobile department found 40% of consumers agree they often reach for their device when they see an interesting advert. The research also highlighted that mobile media users are actively choosing their mobile as the best way to get content, with 27% of respondents in a week period using…
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HP (re)enters the smartphone and tablet market
HP launches a new tablet and two new smartphones all running WebOS Hewlett Packard (HP) have had phones for a long time, trouble was they were all Windows phones and while the iPaqs were good phones they didn’t sell too well, apart from on Expansys. They also didn’t have too much luck with tablets either,…
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The INQ Facebook phone revealed at last
Web site Engadget has released a picture of the long awaited INQ Facebook phone and they should be in the shops for April. The mobiles – there are two of them – are apparently the first mobiles to use the Facebook Social Graph API, which allows you to view Facebook content on the mobiles’ homescreen.…
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Android now the number one smartphone
Android is now the number one operating system for smartphones and dislodges Symbian from the number one position it has held for 10 years. According to research company Canalys, Android sold 32.9 million devices during Q4 2010, overtaking Symbian, which sold 31 million. This represents a 615% year on year sales increase for Android, and…
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Only 4.8% of retailers have websites designed for mobile
More than half (51%) of consumers are more likely to purchase from retailers that have mobile-specific websites according to US marketing business Brand Anywhere The “Supply & Demand of the Mobile Web for Retail” report from Brand Anywhere and Luth Research found that web retailers could increase consumer engagement by 85% simply by adding a…
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Global e-reader sales set to rise to $8.2 Billion by 2014
Analysts Yankee Group are predicting that global e-reader sales revenue will grow from just $1.9 billion in 2010 to $8.2 billion in 2014, while unit sales will rise from just under 11 million in 2010 to nearly 72 million in 2014. The forecast also predicts: Worldwide installed base of e-readers will double each year. The…
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MMA launches new guidelines for mobile advertising
The MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) has released the fifth edition of its “Mobile Advertising Guidelines.” The technical specification and best practice guide is essential reading for anyone buying mobile adverts or selling mobile advertising and comes with two additional documents for emerging opportunities in mobile marketing: Draft Guidelines for Rich Media and the Universal Mobile…
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A quarter of downloaded apps are used only once
Bad news if you’re thinking of producing an app that will make you millions, a new survey has found that most downloaded apps are used only once. Localytics studied the thousands of Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 apps over the last year, and the good news is that users are willing to…
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US smartphone users increased by 60 percent in 2010
comScore figures for December 2010 show a year on year increase of 60% for smartphone usage in the US market, and Android continues its steady growth with a 7.3% rise in the last quarter of 2010 According to comScore figures 63.2 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in December…
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Sony Ericsson playing at phones
Sony Ericsson finally confirmed the rumours of a PlayStation phone with a very expensive advert in the Super Bowl last night. The phone is named the Xperia Play and runs the Google Android OS. There’s a slide-out game controller and if the Sony Ericsson’s Facebook page is anything to be believed it will hit the…
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The iPhone CDMA version pre-orders break records in the US
Apple has received yet another boost to iPhone sales from massive pre-order sales of the new CDMA iPhone 4 ahead of the launch this week. US network Verizon Wireless said that pre-orders of Apple’s iPhone 4 created “the most successful first day sales in the history of the company.” The company have ended online sales…
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Mobile users go online 18 times a day
Research by the IAB reveals that mobile media users in the UK average 18 usage occasions per day, peaking between 18:00-21:00. Mobile media usage can vary from the most popular activities of browsing, checking emails, and using Facebook, to using maps, playing a game or watching a video. The research highlights mobile is the first…
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Mobile phone market grew 18.5% in 2010 to 1.39 billion devices
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 17.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10), a new quarterly high driven by smartphones. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, shows vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009. Vendors…
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Smartphone shipments grew by 59% in 2010
Worldwide shipments of smartphones continue to rise with 2010 sales figures hitting new highs for every manufacturer. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew an impressive 75% annually to reach a record 94 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010. Apple maintained its small lead over RIM, while Nokia…
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New alternative mobile payment solution launched
New UK start up eWise payo has developed a new mobile payment app that enables consumers to pay from any of their bank accounts with existing funds and provides visibility of account balances at the time of purchase. eWise payo has launched a mobile version of it’s eWise payo online payment solution eWise payo mobile.…
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Apple’s iOS accounts for 5% of all browsing in the UK
Figures from web site NetMarketShare show’s Apple’s iOS is accounting for almost one in every twenty web pages viewed in the UK, and one in fifty worldwide. NetMarketShare tracks web traffic by browsers in real-time and Apple’s share of the market on iPads and iPhones now exceeds 2.06% of all browsing on the web worldwide…
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6.6 billion mobile users predicted by 2016
Worldwide mobile broadband-enabled subscriptions are mounting up, and will hit the one billion mark in 2011. According to the latest market data released by ABI Research, at the end of 2010 there were more than five billion mobile subscriptions globally, with one in five of those having access to mobile broadband. Another 28% growth or…
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Android 3.0 preview reveals new interface for tablet devices
Android has released a preview of it’s Honeycomb (Android 3.0 ) platform and it’s very tablet friendly. It also features a new interface and has plenty of new and interesting features. Google released details of it’s next major version of the Android operating system on the Android Developers Blog.The post by Xavier Ducrohet, the Android…