Adobe have announced extensions to their AIR applications, and a new app market the Adobe InMarket. One of the key solutions launching at Adobe’s MAX conference today will be an extension of their AIR applications to a whole new set of mobile devices, including BlackBerry Tablet OS, Android, Apple, and through to TV’s from Samsung.…
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Adobe taking it to the MAX
Adobe are releasing a huge range of new functions and services for mobile developers at their annual MAX show in Los Angeles later today. At it’s annual MAX conference Adobe will be showing off a whole suite of applications and technologies intended to make it easier for designers, developers and content owners to build apps…
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UK mobile ad revenues to rise to £357 million by 2015
Total UK revenues for mobile content and services, mobile advertising and marketing, will be £407.10 million in 2010, rising to £1.10 billion in 2015, according to a report from mobileSQUARED. The ‘Mobile Market Trends: UK: Usage and Revenue Forecasts to 2015‘ report says revenue growth will primarily be driven by increased mobile advertising spend —…
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US Mobile ad spending up by 79 percent to $743 million
US mobile ad spending is to surpass $1 billion next year, but it looks like spending is slowing down. According to a new report from eMarketer, US mobile advertising spending will hit $1 billion in 2011, up from an expected $743 million in 2010, which itself is up by 79% from $416 million in 2009.…
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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…
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Mobile-friendly sites expanding at 1000 percent a year
dotMobi, announced third annual study on mobile Web trends shows that the mobile Web is continuing its explosive global growth and at a faster pace than desktop. The dotMobi “Mobile Web Progress” now in its third-year, examines websites aimed at mobile users, and there’s been a significant leap in the number of sites catering for…
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Mobile sat nav usage up
A navigation survey conducted by ABI Research has revealed that just as predicted, when Nokia and Google took the decision to deliver mapping for free, it hastened the invitable demise of the mass-market purpose-built sat nav industry. The ABI survey “2010 Navigation Survey Highlights Comparison: 2009 and 2010 Results from US, UK, Germany, and France”…
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Google mobile search up 500%
Mobile search is starting to make significant growth confirms Google, and Android users are responsible for much of that growth. It looks like all those millions of people sitting on their couch with their iPhones, watching TV and searching the Internet Movie Database for the name of the actor in the episode of The Bill…
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91% growth in iPhone sales
For months the media have been saying that the antennagate affair would have a serious affect on iPhone sales, and the results from Apple’s latest quarter revenue results, show it has, but not in the way everyone thought. Apple reported it’s highest ever quarterly revenue and earnings, and iPhone sales have gone through the roof,…
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Opera joins the Wholesale Applications Community
Browser and widget builders Opera are joining the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). For those of you who don’t know. The WAC is an alliance of the leading mobile operators such as China Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and others, that works together to define, create and deploy a common mobile application platform. And Opera is the…
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Last chance to win a mobile scholarship for MEX
It’s your last chance to win a MEX (Mobile User Experience) scholarship worth £1499, for the next MEX conference. The MEX Scholarships are there to help people rich in ideas, but low on budget, to take part at MEX and share their thoughts on making better mobile experiences, and the latest MEX Scholarships close on…
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O2 launch location based marketing service
O2 have launched location-based service marketing service enabling advertisers to target individuals with SMS/MMS messages, based on their likes and their current location. The new six-month location-based service trial is described as the first from a network “to offer large-scale location-based mobile marketing in the UK.” The first users of the trial will be Starbucks…
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11 Million tablets to ship in 2010
According to new forecasts from ABI Research, just over 11 million media tablets and 43 million netbooks will ship worldwide this year. While the 43 million figure sounds big it’s actually somewhat lower than observers expected at the end of last year. Last year netbook sales were big and they were expected to get bigger…
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Mobile startups – last chance to win $25,000
Start-up companies in the mobile sector are being invited to enter the MobiTechFestEurope 2010 competition, for the chance to win $25,000. The event, taking place in London on November 24, offers mobile businesses the opportunity to pitch for funding to industry leaders in the mobile and wireless sectors. Up to 16 companies will be selected…
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Mobile search is up and web search is down
Search and social conversion agency Tamar has published a new white paper on mobile search and it’s found that we’re all moving to mobile search from webs search. Tamar’s Mobile 2010 White Paper shows that UK consumers are dumping web search and moving to mobile search with mobile search engine traffic increasing by 247% in…
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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 –…
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Debenhams launch an iPhone app
Debenhams has taken the plunge and has launched an iPhone app, and it works instore and out. The new Debenhams mobile app designed by No Need for Mirrors is designed as an app that works both in-store and out. The app allows you to buy and choose items to buy, but it also includes a…
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This tweet self-destructs in one hour
If you thought the news world was harsh then the Twitter world is harsher. The adage that yesterdays news it todays chip paper is just so slow compared to a tweet. According to data from Sysomos most Tweets on Twitter don’t get discovered and are ignored. You also have a one hour window for your…
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Windows Phone 7 Launch
The Windows Phone 7 Launch We’re here, where are you? Microsoft have chosen an unseasonally hot day to launch Windows Phone 7 (WP7). The room in the ICA is hot an dark and there’s not air con full marks. Especially in a room where the average number of phones per user was heading for double…
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Windows Phone 7 – launch day
As the whole world probably knows today is the launch of Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft and there’s a lot of pressure to get this right. Microsoft have a lot riding on Windows Phone 7. They have effectively been pushed out of the Mobile game and they’re desperate to get back in, and it’s something…