July ad figures from US ad network Millenial Media’s Mobile Mix monthly survey on mobile device trends. Show Android devices nipping at the heels of the long standing leader Apple’s iOS. US Smartphone Mix July 2010 1 Apple iOS 55% 2 Android OS 19% 3 RIM OS 16% 4 Other 6% 5 Windows Mobile 4%…
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Facebook updates iPhone SDK and announces 150 million mobile users
In an official Facebook blog post by Facebook engineer Yujuan Bao announcing new updates to the Facebook iOS Software Development Kit (SDK), Bao accidentally announced that Facebook now have 150 million regular mobile users. That’s up from the 100 million users they announced in February this year, and it’s a staggering 30% of their total…
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Google unveil a Chrome to phone add-in
Google’s latest addition to the Android and Chrome browser family is an add-on to the Chrome browser that allows you to quickly and easily send links and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go? The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to your Google Chrome…
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iPad consumer use survey – 43% use it for more than 10 hours per week
According to a poll by copywriters Cooper Murphy Webb, Apple’s iPad is the preferred method of reading newspapers and magazines among consumers already owning the device.Strangely they also found that most users keep the iPad at home. Considering how small and light the iPad is this is a strange finding. Are iPad users scared to…
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Mcommerce market worth $2.5 billion (£1.6bn) in 2010 and, will grow to $10 billion (£6.4bn) by 2012
The worldwide mobile commerce market is worth $2.5 billion (£1.6bn) today, and will grow to $10 billion (£6.4bn) by 2012 According to Lazard Capital Markets the worldwide mobile commerce market is worth $2.5 billion today, and will grow four times in the next couple of years, with Android being the key platform for that growth.…
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Top ten weird and common iPhone insurance claims
As it’s Friday and we don’t feel like working we thought we’d look for something fun to occupy our time with so when we found this list of bizarre iPhone insurance claims we were delighted, and doubly so as it just confirmed what we always thought that iPhone users were a bunch of liars accident…
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A third of smartphone users browsing retail sites on their phones
Mobile is playing an increasingly important role in the way that customers browse and research purchases, with a third of smartphone users browsing retail sites on their phones. A survey by eDigital Research asked how people used phones as part of their research and purchase process and the results back the growing focus of retailers…
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App experts wanted for AppJam conference in Dundee Nov 2010
Designers, developers, manufacturers, media moguls, artists, application experts, entrepreneurs, phone and facebook fans – the AppCon and AppJam conference needs you now. The first ever AppCon and AppJam will take place in Dundee (on November 8th-10th 2010) and it’s looking for speakers, presenters, panelists, judges and experts from around the wide, wide world of apps.…
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Smartphone sales accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales
According to new figures from Gartner, mobile sales and smartphones sales continue to grow in the second quarter of 2010. Gartner’s latest figures show smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5% from the second quarter of 2009, while worldwide mobile sales to end users totaled…
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Audi launches the first car with a built-in Wifi hotspot
Jeremy Clarkson eat your heart out, we don’t want fast cars, we want connected cars. The Audi A8 is the first production car in Europe to come complete with a mobile Wifi hotspot. We can picture it now; an Audi A8 sedately cruising down the street followed by crowds of geeks with iPads lured from…
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eBay customers to sell almost £1 billion worth of goods via mobile in 2010
According to a blog post by Elizabeth Woyke on US Forbes magazine, eBay expects to sell more than £959 million ($1.5 billion) worth of goods via mobile in 2010, and has aggressive plans for mobile. eBay Mobile vice president Steve Yankovich told Woyke that eBay has plans to release an app for phones running Microsoft’s…
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Flash for iPhones? only if they’re jailbroken
It seems that there are more and more reasons for jailbreaking that precious iPhone, and the latest reason is to achieve a hooky installation of Adobe’s Flash Frash is a new app available to jailbroken iPhones and claims to be able to run Flash on an iPhone. Frash is made by the same people who…
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smartphones are responsible for most of Twitter’s growth in the US and Europe
comScore’s report on Twitter’s stratospheric worldwide growth shows smartphones are responsible for most of the growth in the US and Europe An analysis of Twitter usage via mobile for the six mobile markets currently reported by comScore (UK, US, France, Germany, Spain and Italy) revealed that Twitter is as you would expect gaining adoption among…
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New free collaboration service for Flash-friendly phones
LogMeIn have launched a new free screen-sharing, file-sharing and conferencing service that’s small enough to work on a smartphone, but unfortunately not an iPhone or an iPad LogMeIn have launched a free beta service Join.Me that allows you to share your PC or Mac screen with anyone connected to the internet, and to set up…
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The UK is one of the cheapest places worldwide for Mobile Broadband
The UK, France, Indonesia amongst the cheapest for Mobile Broadband In a cross-country comparison of mobile data pricing, ABI Research found the UK, France and Indonesia to have among the lowest prices for mobile broadband plans. In Indonesia, a 4 GB data package for the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) costs as low as £10.81 ($17)…
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Orange off-loading iPhones
Seems like Orange have ordered too many iPhone 4s or they’ve got their iPhone pricing policy badly wrong, as we’ve just received an email from Orange saying “Now that the rush to get the iPhone 4 has slowed down a bit, we have a good stock of the very popular iPhone 4 Black 16GB on…
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Where to buy an iPad
The two months wait is over. Yes it’s official you can now buy an iPad from anywhere you want. DSG International’s (DSGi) two-month monopoly on Apple’s iPad has finally come to an end. From this week you now no longer have to skulk around with the spotty youths running PC World, Dixons Travel airport shops,…
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6.4m iPhones in the UK by the end of 2010
By the end of 2010 one in ten of the UK population will own an iPhone according to MobileSquared. By the end of this year, 6.4 million Britons will own an iPhone, according to new forecasts from research firm MobileSquared. That’s up 195% from the 2.17 million at the end of 2009, and they think…
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Build a Palm app and win a 100,000 dollars
HP’s latest purchase, Palm is offering a million dollars (that’s around £630,000) prize fund and a top prize of $100,000 (£63,000) to a lucky developer who creates the best Palm webOS app. The Palm Hot Apps Program will reward developers of the hottest PDK applications for webOS with a total of $1 million in cash…
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Android registrations top 200,000 a day
Back in the heady days of January when Google launched the Nexus One – remember that? it was a kind of phone with a Google logo on it – Google announced that they were activating 60,000 new Android phones each day? Then in May, Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra announced it was up to…