Amazon has upped the ante and has launched a mini Kindle with a pricing structure to hit the mass-market, and free 3G wireless connectivity. Fed up with being the bridesmaid and never the bride when it comes to mobile headlines, Amazon have launched a reduced-sized Kindle, aimed at attacking the mass market, and the iPhone…
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Mcommerce only working on smartphones
According to a survey by BrandBank Mcommerce is only really working for smartphone users with just 4% of UK consumers find making mobile purchases pain free. The 2010 Brandbank Mcommerce Content Report, shows some major attitudinal differences between consumers that own smartphones (21%) and those who don’t (79%), but the overall trend is one of…
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WebWorks enterprise content publishing solution for iPad and ePUB
If you have huge amounts of content and you need to get it onto the iPad or any e-publishing format then you’re in luck. US software publishers WebWorks have launched a new product, ePublisher 2010 Mobile Plus, that takes content and automatically reformats it for a variety of different mobile formats including the ePUB standard…
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Women are spending 30% more time than men on social networking sites
Figures from comScore show what we all thought, that social networks are used more by women than men. While there are only slightly more women using social networking sites than men, they spend over 30% more time than men when they’re online. comScore’s report on women’s online usage, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping…
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Microsoft looking for Windows Mobile 7 developers
Microsoft are actively looking for developers for Windows Phone 7 and they’re offering a “limited” number of handsets to prospective developers. Last week Microsoft announced that they would be giving away handsets to Windows Mobile 7 developers, and now they’re putting those claims into practice. Mike Ormond a developer evangelist at Microsoft, with responsibility for…
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Opera state of the UK mobile web
The UK mobile market is continuing to grow at a multi-digit rate according to Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web Report and there’s a welcome return of eBay into the top 10 most visited sites by mobile users. According to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report for June (http://www.opera.com/smw/) the UK’s mobile market…
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Africa went mobile for the World Cup
Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web Report covers the World Cup and explores mobile web trends in Africa, where growths of 100’s and 1000’s of percent isn’t unusual. Mobile web use is exploding in Africa, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report (http://www.opera.com/smw/). Triple-digit growth rates are routine in the region where…
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Vodafone offers €100,000 prize to the best UK mobile startup
Got a great idea for a mobile startup? Well good news, Vodafone are offering £83,750 (€100,000) to one lucky winner, (up from €75,000 last year) and a total prize pool of £125,649 (€150,000). The Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2010 contest to find the UK’s best mobile internet startup is now up and running and all you…
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Android phones now 13% of UK phone market
Android’s share of the UK mobile contract market has grown from 3% in Q1 2010 to reach 13.2% in Q2 2010, GfK Retail and Technology’s latest figures have revealed. During this period, while contract market sales grew by less than 1%, sales of Android phones increased by a staggering 350%. Phones with an advanced Operating…
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Apple iPad shipments to hit 12.9 million in 2010 and 50 million by 2012
Analysts iSuppli predicts Apple will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, but their figures for 2011 and 2012 are looking stratospheric. Analysts iSuppli have revised their iPad shipment figures quite significantly, instead of their April predictions of shipments of 7.1 million they now predict end of year sales to be nearer 13 million units, but…
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iPhone to launch in 17 new countries this week
Apple will be launching the black version of the iPhone 4 in 17 countries from this Friday 30 July. From Friday the iPhone 4 will be newly available in lots more countries in Europe and Scandinavia including; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland Additionally the iPhone will also…
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Amazon takes £645 million from mobile shoppers
Amazon.com generated revenues of £645 million ($1 billion) from mobile purchases during the last 12 months. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the statistic during the Amazon’s Q2 earnings release, and stressed the importance of mobile phones and tablet computers in the company’s future plans. The news comes just a few days after Amazon revealed that sales…
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iPad captured 6% of the worldwide netbook market
Analysts Canalys released its quarterly worldwide PC market data, and Apple has zoomed into the top five PC vendors, thanks to the iPad. The iPad captured approximately 6% of the portable PC segment in Q2 2010, with over 3 million units shipped during the device’s first few months on the market. Conversely, growth in the…
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More than half of UK mobile users never leave home without their mobile phone
More than half of UK mobile users never leave home without their mobile phone and 44% say they could not live without it. In a survey on telephone banking by Birmingham Midshires, the building soceity found that 51% of mobile users said they always took their mobile with them when they went out, with 26%…
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Apple launches iPhone 4 Case Program app
Gota problem with a screwed up antenna? Well there’s now an app for that. A week after promising free bumper cases to iPhone 4 customers affected by the antenna-gate reception issues, Apple introduced the iPhone 4 Case Program application, enabling consumers to apply for their bumper directly via mobile device. Available now for download via…
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Acer launch Stream high-end multimedia smartphone
PC manufacturer Acer have launched the Stream; an Android Amoled-based high-end multimedia smartphone, optimised for watching movies, listening to music and web browsing. The Stream is designed to be easy to use, and small – it’s just 11.2mm thick, but the screen is a massive 3.7″ – robust – it’s made from highly resistant materials,…
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Nuance launches new versions of Dictation and Search
Nuance has launched its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search applications to the UK Apple App Store, and they’re free – Nuance says for a limited time but they’ve been free in the US since launch last year so we think it’s going to be sometime if never before they start to charge. The two apps…
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You can have any colour as long as it’s black
To misquote Henry Ford, Apple have announced that you can have an iPhone in any colour you want as long as it’s black, well for the immediate future anyway. In a short announcement, the firm confirmed that the white unit had proved difficult to manufacture, while the official web store simply offers the message that…
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Android users learning to click
The Android mobile platform is making big gains in global click-through rates, according to Smaato’s Mobile Advertising Metrics report for June. Android, the iPhone and BlackBerry all gained in Smaato’s worldwide CTR index. However, it was Google’s mobile platform that made the biggest gains, as it surpassed Apple to achieve the third-highest worldwide CTR of…
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Mobile Loose Ends
Mobile Loose Ends – Some stories from the last two weeks that appealed to us and we thought were interesting and why. Shopkick get a kick from VCs The Wall Street Journal are finally realising that mobile is taking off and the reason they’re realising is that the VCs are starting to go into a…