Google’s iPhone and iPad mobile search app now comes with Google Glasses added. The image search technology will allow iPhone users to point their phone at an object and Google will do the search. The new feature – present in the Android app – uses the new technology to search for images taken from the…
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Opera launch an ad exchange
Seems like everyone wants to own an ad empire, Google, Apple, Microsoft and now Opera. Browser software company Opera has a launched what it calls a “revolutionary platform” for publishers who want to capitalise on the “untapped potential” of the 66.5 million Opera Mini users worldwide. The Open Mobile Ad Exchange service, is a cloud-based…
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John Lewis launches mobile strategy
Next Monday sees the launch of the never knowingly undersold’s retailer’s first mobile version of their 100,000 product online site. The new mobile site launching on the 11 October will enable customers to buy from the full johnlewis.com assortment as well as locate their local shop. Customers can access the new site from their mobile…
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Twitter CEO Evan Williams steps down
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’s move sees Dick Costolo promoted to CEO amid speculation over site’s future ownership
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LG delays launch of Android 2.2 tablet – software update on the horizon?
Google’s head of mobile Hugo Berra was said to have spooked many a manufacturer last month when he openly noted that Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) is “not optimised for use on tablets”
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Speed kills – the mobile user experience
Lack of speed, kills the mobile user experience, dead. Research has found that the biggest turn off for mobile users is waiting for mobile pages to load. A client once said to us “the mobile web? Isn’t that just the normal web on a small screen?” It’s a scary thought and it’s not an uncommon…
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Ballmer bullish on Windows Phone 7
Microsoft’s head honcho CEO Steve Ballmer has told the Wall Street Journal that he expects big things from Windows Phone 7 (WP7), but he’s not predicting that the smartphone will take over from the PC. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Ballmer explained why they didn’t produce their own WP7 handset, and who…
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Wired UK to do an iPad version that “won’t be better than the magazine”
Publishers Condé Nast are to launch an iPad version of UK Wired to test the market. The iPad version will however not be going monthly immediately. The first version is intended only as a way of testing the water. The original announcement from the Wired blog explains that the iPad issue will be built in-house…
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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…
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Apple results sweepstake get your predictions in.
We’re in readiness for Apple’s Q4 results and the pundits are getting their predictions in for what Apple will announce in two weeks time. Horace Dediu at Asymco’s predictions are iPhone units: 12.2 13 million (65% 77% growth) Macs: 4 million (30% growth) iPads: 3.3 5 million iPods: 9.4 9.7 million (-5% growth) Music growth: 26.7%…
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Games are still the dominant apps category
The latest Distimo report is out for Q3 2010 and it’s got lots of good information on how the app world is doing in the US. Especially the continued dominance of games as the top apps in nearly all app stores. The report covers the most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPad,…
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Mobile payments – the new technology coming to the UK
Forget cash and cards. In the Spanish town of Sitges you can go shopping with nothing but your mobile phone
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A top gadget for all BlackBerry users
If you really want to be a true roadwarrior, then you need to swap everything to your mobile, and ditch the laptop, and just go mobile commando. However while apps and services like Dropbox and Evernote allow you to take your files and data with you wherever you go, there’s still one little problem. How…
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What happens to the iPad if nobody else’s tablets are any good?
Have you handled any tablet computers (excluding the iPad)? Of course not – they’re still not in the shops, and in the case of RIM’s PlayBook, there’s doubt about whether it even exists
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Google adds 20 new countries to it’s paid application list
As we reported on Monday Google was planning to add additional countries to it’s paid app support, and they’ve come up trumps. There are now 29 countries where developers can sell apps on the Google Android market. From today Android developers can sell their apps in 29 countries, up from just nine. Today’s additions include;…
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eBuddy hits 100 million app downloads
Dutch web and mobile instant messaging business eBuddy has passed the 100 million app downloads mark. A blog post from the firm confirms the figures and adds a quote from CEO and co-founder Jan-Joost “JJ” Rueb, “Reaching the 100 million mobile download milestone speaks not only to the popularity of mobile IM, but also to…
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Ovi Store hits 2.3 million downloads a day
Nokia’s Ovi Store seems to be in rude health if the blog post says what we think it says. According to Nokia the number of active Nokia Ovi service users has reached 140 million worldwide, with more than 200,000 people signing up daily to Ovi, with the Ovi Store reaching 2.3 million downloads per day.…
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85% of smartphones will ship with GPS by 2013
ABI Research anticipates that the sensor-driven user interface (UI) will be an emergent theme in the next wave of mobile UI innovation—turning objects, locations, and people into networked, interactive elements. Figures from ABI Research predict that by 2013, 85% of smartphones will ship with GPS, over 50% will ship with accelerometers, and almost 50% will…
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The next tablet is a Next tablet
We’re shocked, nay stunned. Retailers Next have released their own-branded Android tablet device. The ten-inch tablet advertised on their website for £180 includes a touch screen, wifi, has 8Gb RAM and runs on Google’s Android OS. It’s not clear if this will be in-store as well. The tablet is currently not available next day but…
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Opera’s August figures for mobile usage
Opera’s State of the mobile web report http://www.opera.com/smw/ for August once again shows an increase in mobile usage. The report shows page views worldwide increasing by more than 14% and data transfers increasing by almost 10% from July. More than four million new Opera Mini users contributed to the jump, which is the largest gain…