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100 million Apple devices by 2011

The FT has published a blog piece with some outrageous interesting speculation from analysts that Apple’s IOS devices could number 100 million in the next 18 months. The piece looks at some of the Wall Street analysts, who seem to be wanting to outdo each other with who can up-chat the iPhone/iPad sales the most.…

Mobiles cause Daily Express headlines

An extensive 30-second  study conducted by Business Mobile has found that mobile phone press releases cause front page headlines in the Daily Express. This week the Express found the latest press release on mobile phones that ticked all the right boxes and duly splashed it all over the front page. To help readers identify these…

O2 get nasty with their new data plans

On the June 24 O2 are to bring in a new set of data plans for their mobile users and they’re going to make a lot of iPhone users very unhappy. O2 are obviously tired of being castigated for their slow data connectivity, and have decided that the only answer is to make their heavy…

iPad bandwagon jumping volume 1 number 23 – Tailoring?

Now this is an interesting use of the iPad, an overpriced notepad, we think not. It’s just another desperate attempt to surf the wave of iPad publicity. Bespoke mens tailor King & Allen,are suing the Apple iPad in their shop to “improve and enhance the customer buying experience” which equates to they’re using it to…

Apple beware, Android and Ovi are getting big

A couple of new snippets of info on the apps market released this week show that you’d be silly – nay stupid – just to concentrate all your efforts on building apps for the Apple platforms. There was plenty of big news for Android developers released at this week’s Google I/O jamboree in San Francisco’s…

Would you buy a Google Pad?

It seems that Google has decided to get in to the iPad/slate market, and who can blame them? The Nexus wasn’t exactly a huge seller, but according to Google it has made a positive contribution to their sales, which in our book is a success, and the encouraging sales for the iPad makes a move…

Android overtakes iPhone

The figures are out for smartphone sales and Android based smartphones are doing incredibly well in the US, while Nokia continues to dominate worldwide. According to analysts NPD Group Android is now number two position in the US on consumer smartphone sales with 28%, behind RIM (36%) and ahead of the iPhone (21%). “As in…

30 billion reasons to say mobile

In a recent post on the Nielsen Wire blog the senior VP for Research and insights, Telecom Practice, Roger Entner takes a very good stab at why Google Apple etc are after the mobile marketing market. The reasons are clear to Entner, it’s the – as yet – hugely untapped revenue that exists in mobile.…

iPad sales to top 10 million in 2010?

Encouraging analyst figures, and the crack-like desire that seems to come over people on first seeing and touching an iPad, can only mean one thing, huge sales for the iPad in 2010. The only question we’re asking is not how many millions will it sell, but will it sell in to the double million figures…

Kin hell thanks to Vodafone

From early reports Microsoft’s new Kin http://www.kin.com/ phones seem to be pretty spot on with its mix of great quality cameras, a good keyboard and a touch screen, and we can’t wait to get our hands on one. Unfortunately we’re not going to be able to get them until after the autumn. Yes the autumn,…

Orange new tarriffs yawn fest

The mobile internet has slowly been bubbling to the surface in the UK for quite some time and it’s been interesting to see how the mobile networks deal with it. Orange has ignored the Internet, and in fact did everything in their power to make sure that their mobile users had a hard time getting…

Why no WiMAX in the UK?

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse had some really interesting things to say about WiMAX and 4G and the future of mobile at CTIA http://www.bmob.co.uk/2010/03/24/the-future-is-4g/ and what he said just made me really annoyed. But I wasn’t annoyed because what he said was right or wrong, it made me annoyed because a lot of the early…