Over half of UK business employees are spending more than a fifth of their week working outside of the office according to a new UK study conducted by headset manufacturer Plantronics. Mobile worker are increasingly spending more time working outside the office, in so-called ‘transitional’ spaces. Defined by Plantronics as public spaces used while in…
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Internet Explorer wins first HTML5 conformance test
The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and the winner is the Platform preview (aka beta) of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9. The W3C tests put IE9 beta release 6 at the top of the HTML5 conformance table, followed by Google Chrome 7, Firefox 4 beta 6, Opera 10.6,…
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One million people in UK have made payment by mobile
According to new figures from PayPal released today over one million Britons have now used PayPal to make a payment or send money on their mobile phones. In Britain, PayPal saw month on month mobile transactions grow by 20% in July and August this year. PayPal UK customers already make an average of almost five…
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Android now 44% of US smartphone market
US Android market has grown significantly in the third quarter of 2010, and now accounts for 44% of all smartphones purchased. Thanks to continued high-profile handset introductions, the Android smartphone OS significantly grew its lead in the US consumer smartphone market in Q3 2010. According to market research company NPD Group, Android’s OS was installed…
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Times iPad app has “changed the way we do journalism”
News International revealed on Radio 4 this morning that it had just over 50,000 monthly subscribers paying to access its digital versions of The Times and Sunday Times since it introduced its’ paywall earlier in year. Speaking on Radio 4 this morning, James Harding, Times Editor confirmed it had achieved more than 105,000 paid-for sales…
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Apple to offer own brand SIMs – What Next? An Apple network
According to a report on technology news site GigaOM, Apple are planning on setting up their own SIM card deal. Not content with selling phones to every operator, it seems like Apple – if the rumours are true – are to launch their own SIM card deal. The move would let customers buy and activate…
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Vodafone pricing on the Samsung Galaxy
Vodafone have just launched their pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and it’s fairly similar to their iPad pricing. The race is on to be the most competitive with Galaxy pricing and Vodafone are straight out of the gate with an offering that’s very similar to their iPad offering, apart from a few hidden extras.…
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Tablet devices to reach 81 million by 2015
The number of annual shipments for tablet devices will reach 81 million by 2015 as an increasing number of consumer electronics players and handset manufacturers enter the market, finds Juniper Research‘s latest report. According to Juniper Research the catalyst for this expanding market is not the iPad but the Android Operating system which is allowing…
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Global mobile ad revenues for 2010 to hit $3.5 billion
Global revenues from mobile advertising will be worth $3.5 billion in 2010 according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. According to Informa the mobile advertising market has seen strong growth over the past 12 months driven by the initiatives and investments of big players including Apple and Google and is expected to…
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Five key trends in mobile for 2011
As we’re slowly heading for the end of the year, we’re starting to look towards 2011, and what it will hold for mobile business, and over the next few months we’ll be running some future trend pieces. The first is from Kony Solutions who have come up with five key trends businesses need to leverage…
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31 percent of mobile usage is via wifi
David Harper CEO of PercentMobile has shared some mobile traffic figures with the people on Mobile Monday and we thought they were so good we’d share them with you. The PercentMobile figures come from analysis of the last 6 months aggregate UK mobile Web Usage from a sample of over 2.5 million UK uniques, over…
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Things to avoid when creating a mobile strategy
Mobile platform provider Kony Solutions has published what they describe as the five common errors companies should avoid when developing a mobile strategy. Here are Kony Solutions top five “don’ts” to consider when developing your mobile strategy: Companies are focusing more than ever on their long-term mobile strategy. From identifying the mobile needs of their…
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Facebook dominates mobile broadband data usage
Social media and social gaming dominate mobile broadband data traffic according to new traffic statistics released by mobile operator Three. But do we really trust the stats – read on for the sorry tale of just how confused some telecomms operators can be. For the first time – to our knowledge – a network has…
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European mobile usage on the up
UK and US mobile users are downloading more than 10 mobile pages a day, and that’s growing by more than 60% a year. Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report (http://www.opera.com/smw/) shows a continuing upwards trend in mobile usage, page views in the top 10 countries of the EU increased by 58.4% year on year,…
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Global smartphone shipments reach 77 million in Q3
Figures from analysts Smart Analytics confirm earlier figures from ABI Research that smartphone sales are continuing to increase at supersonic rates. The Smart Analytic Q3 figures show global shipments of smartphones reached a record 77 million units and annual growth hit an impressive 78%. Apple was the best performer and has overtaken RIM and is…
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Smartphones account for one in five phones shipped
New figures show that the smartphones are now accounting for one in every five phones shipped, that’s up from one in ten this time last year. The smartphone markets are continuing to forge ahead at an extraordinary pace. According to ABI Research, smartphones made up 19% of all handsets shipped in the second quarter; that…
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BlackBerry App World web storefront launches
RIM have updated their BlackBerry App World with the ability to buy apps from the web. RIM have update their BlackBerry App World with some additional functionality and at the same time released a few additional figures. Since BlackBerry App World surpassed the 10,000 application mark back in September things have been going well, RIM…
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Mobile internet increasing by 100% every eight months
One in five web page’s will be downloaded from a mobile device by October 2012 The big graphic of the week comes from NetMarketshare, and it’s a graph of the mobile device share of the internet. As you can see the graph is shaping up to be a classic hockey-stick exponential trajectory. Starting with relatively…
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One in ten iPad users still not downloaded an app
Nielsen at the end of last week produced a survey of more than 5,000 consumers who already own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media/games player, or smartphone, and there’s some interesting reading. It seems that although the iPad is incredibly succesful there are still a few owners – nearly 1 in 10 – who just…
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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for mobile publishers
Adobe’s new Digital Publishing Suite , launched today is designed to provide publishers and developers with a set of hosted services and viewer technology to create, publish, optimise and sell digital content direct to consumers. The suite is put together from Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe InDesign CS5 software, and adds additional functionality including a…