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Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 finalists
Vodafone has announced the four finalists of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 competition and you’ve now got until September 24 to vote for finalist that you think should be the winner. The annual competition is designed to identify and develop the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups. The four finalists represent companies working on field-worker…
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Three get aggressive on data PAYG pricing
Three announced some quite aggressive Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing to add to its All In One product, you can now get 500Mb for £5 per month which must be one the cheapest rates around. Three announced that from yesterday it would be updating it’s PAYG pricing and instead of the normal texts and…
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Vogue slims down for iPad edition
Conde Nast is launching iPad apps for Vogue and Wired
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Tesco creating an Android grocery app
In an amusing post on his blog Tesco’s head of R&D Nick Lansley has promised users that Tesco will be producing an Android app and providing a barcode update to their current iPhone app. Lansley quotes a post from reader B0lty on his site: Why haven’t you included a barcode scanner? More like why haven’t…
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Ofcom to test mobile broadband speeds
The UK telecom regulator, Ofcom has decided to compile its own mobile broadband coverage data maps and has contracted an outside company, Epitiro to analyse the performance of the networks. Ofcom has previously relied on operator provided statistics when compiling its coverage maps, but after the findings in the recently published Communications Market Report which…
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the power of the mobile phone
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at Nokia World conference and as you would expect from the man who invented the web he had a few pithy things to say about the future of the web, and the importance of mobile to that future. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has always been an advocate of information freedom. It…
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25% of searches from Android phones are by voice
A new stat to impress the children has appeared on the Google Mobile Blog, according to Heaven Kim, Product Marketing person for Google Mobile “one in every four searches from an Android phone in the US is by voice.” We’re actually quite stunned by that fact here at Bmob as in the UK we haven’t…
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Condé Nast chief: up to 40% of sales could be on iPad
Nicholas Coleridge reveals publisher will launch paid-for applications for December issues of UK Wired and Vogue
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US mobile owners are downloading apps but not using them
A new extensive Pew Internet study on apps and their usage has come up with some stats that may worry developers out there. Yes, users are downloading apps, but relatively few users then subsequently use the apps. Which is oK if you’re planning on making revenues from a paid app, but disappointing if you’re planning…
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Mobile Twitter usage up by 250%
The number of people accessing Twitter from their mobile has grown by 250% since the start of this year, according to CEO Evan Williams. The statistic was one just one of many revealed by Williams at a press conference for the new redesigned Twitter that will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Williams…
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Nokia provides app developers with new tools for Ovi
There’s been some interesting news from Nokia World 2010 over Ovi that should make app developers very happy. The first bit of good news is the usage statistics for its Ovi Store. Liz Schimel, VP of music services & connected entertainment, stated that Ovi Store now has 130 million active users globally, with 2 million…
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Everyone is downloading apps, but they aren’t searching
Smartphones – not just iPhones – are encouraging users to download apps if new figures from Nielsen are to be believed, however none of them appear to be using search to find them. A new Nielsen survey shows that as of June 2010, 59% of smartphone owners and nearly 9% of feature phone owners report…
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UK Mobile ad market to grow 840% over next five years
The UK mobile advertising market looks set to finally come of age, with total revenues estimated to grow 840% from £27.47 million this year to £258.27 million by 2015, according to the latest data released by mobileSQUARED. In 2010, the mobile banner ad market will be worth £12.96 million, with search worth £9.86 million. However,…
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At Nokia World, developers ask: ‘Where’s MeeGo?’
Nokia World: Nokia is showing off its new phones based on its Symbian^3 operating system at Nokia World – but some are wondering how quickly its much-vaunted MeeGo project will bear fruit
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Win an iPad with goMobi
Website dotMobi recently launched goMobi, a product to help you increase your business by building and deploying mobile websites easier and fast. To publicise the launch goMobi have created a competition for the best website created, and the winner gets an iPad. All you need to do is design a goMobi site to be in…
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Nokia World 2010: Mobile giant will look to recapture greatness
The Finnish manufacturer is the embattled beast of the mobile market, today it must throw down the gauntlet to rivals
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Android closes in on mobile OS top spot say Gartner
Last week we reported that IDC were predicting Android would hit the number one spot, and this week it’s the turn of Gartner. Google’s Android could be on the verge of becoming the world’s largest smartphone operating system by 2014, according to new figures from Gartner. The research firm forecasts that by this point there…
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Consumers to become more accepting of in-app ads
Consumer demand for mobile applications will wear down resistance to in-app mobile ads, propelling the North American market to $2 billion by the end of the year, according to a new report by Parks Associates. The report Monetizing Downloadable Mobile Applications shows North American in-app ad revenue will surpass $860 million in 2014 and paid…
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Froyo use growing fast
Figures from the Google Android Developers website developers.android.com show that Froyo (Android version 2.2) is being downloaded and installed by a healthy number of users. Figures on the site (see below) show that over 28.7% of users accessing the Android Market within the last 14-days are using Froyo. This however does not mean that 28.7%…