Category: Analysis

Don’t ignore the small screen viewers

One of the key parts of producing a mobile website is understanding the screens of the devices that visit your site, Too many websites are built for and tested on the iPhone and take no heed of any other screensize after all who doesn’t have an iPhone? Well lots of people don’t and lots of…

100+ million tablets to ship in 2012

ABI Research predict tablet sales will reach more than 100 million in 2012, the figures are based on a very successful first quarter, where 25 million tablets were sold with Apple gaining the lions share of the market. Figures from ABI show the April to June quarter of 2012 set a new record for media…

One in five phones to have facial recognition by end of 2012

A new report from ABI Research “Facial Recognition for Mobile Devices” estimates  almost 20% of annual smartphone shipments will include facial recognition capabilities by the end of 2012 with over 665 million devices featuring facial recognition shipping annually by 2017. Facial recognition has been on the technology radar for some time. It was developed in…

Apple adding mobile payments in iPad and iPhone

The rumours that Apple is to build-in mobile payments into the iPhone 5 are old, but now the rumour is that payments will also be built into the iPad 2 and enable iTunes for m-payments. According to the report in Bloomberg Apple will embed a NFC-based mobile payment services into the next iteration of its…

What does 2011 hold for apps? – Guest post

We’re running a few articles about where the market will go in 2011, and this guest post is from Ed Thomas at App Developers UK who looks at where apps will be in 2011, take it away Ed. Have you downloaded just about every free mobile app possible and spent a fair few pounds on …

PayPal looking to mobile for growth

In an interview with the New York Times “For PayPal, the Future Is Mobile” PayPal’s President Scott Thompson, said he was looking to grow PayPal revenues to more than parent eBay’s revenues, and he expects at least some of that additional revenue to come from mobile. Currently PayPal accounts for 37% of eBay’s overall revenue…

Subsidised iPads for Christmas? Probably not

It now seems like everyone is in the race to get a subsidised iPad out before Christmas, or are they? The releases on the subsidised iPads all point to subsidised iPads in the New Year, not pre-Christmas. In the running and in “negotiations” with Apple about delivering a subsidised iPad with a contract data plan…

The iPad haves and the iPad have nots?

According to Pew Research figures, the iPad could potentially produce a wealth divide, where iPad-owning wealthy individuals gained access to data and information, that was out of the range of poor. However we think they’re missing  something out in their figures. The Pew Research figures “Use of the internet in higher-income households” found that 95%…

Isis shows the way for mobile NFC payments

It’s interesting to see that on the day that Google’s CEO announces a new mobile phone, complete with Near Field Communication (NFC) that the three US major networks launch a joint venture to promote NFC. Could they be linked? It’s also interesting to see how the US is going about using NFC in mobile compared…

Tablets may not hit Q4 targets

Apple’s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated according to an interview with Bloomberg by US analyst Ashok Kumar of Rodman & Renshaw. Kumar expects that the current belt-tightening to have a real effect on tablet sales, as consumers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones…

Network capacity hit by a perfect storm

We really don’t want to be accused of running around shouting that the sky is about to fall on our heads like Chicken Little, but figures from Amdocs about the capacity crunch seem to indicate that not only is the sky falling on our heads, but in places it’s already fallen on our heads. Rumours…

iPad app market now 14% of total Apple app store market

Distimo’s regular US monthly app report is out for the month of October and it shows that Apple app developers appear to be prone to cheating on their old-faithful iPhone with the new high-class rich thing in town the iPad. Distimo found that the proportion of iPad-only applications outgrew the proportion of universal applications during…

Amazon announces 70% royalty rates to publishers

Amazon will start paying publishers 70% revenue rates when they sell magazines and newspapers on its Kindle electronic reader. Last month we reported on Amazon announcing they were raising their Kindle loyalty rate to UK authors and publishers for ebooks sold via Amazon’s self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform. This month Amazon have gone one step…

US mobile subscriptions now at 101% of the population

The US mobile market now has more subscribers than the population and data usage is set to hit 1 exabyte in 2010. So are we heading for a data crunch and tiered pricing sooner rather than later? Analyst Chetan Sharma’s view of the US third quarter mobile market is out and the top line figures…

Taking the app to the Mac

How strange that on the day that Microsoft chose to launch the first Windows Phone 7 product Apple have decided to announce that, they’re about to take their app store to the Mac. Do you think the two are possibly connected? At an Apple product launch for the new MacBook Air, Apple made the announcement…

Argos iPhone app hits 800k downloads

The high-street retailer Argos is in rude health on the mobile front. James Tarbuck Argos’s Multi-Channel Programme and Operations Manager revealed a few interesting facts at the Internet retailing 2010 conference yesterday. The Argos iPhone app is doing very well. Since it’s launch on May 22 the app has been downloaded over 800,000 times –…

How to lose £8 million in three years – buy Yospace

We all know that Mobile can be  a volatile area, it’s new and there’s no guarantees that anything will work. So it’s no surprise that we learn from the Telegraph.co.uk that mobile video content platform Yospace was sold by publisher Bauer for just £1, three years after being bought for at least £8 million in…