Microsoft announced a series of new additions to its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system intended to make the operating system the killer operating system, with a killer app site to match. Microsoft’s new additions to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) promise tighter cloud-based integration between the mobile devices and PCs. New features include Windows…
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World Cup 2010 mobile trends
Mobile IP optimization business Allot have released their MobileTrends Global Mobile Broadband Traffic Report for the 2010 World Cup and it shows there was a huge worldwide desire from mobile users wanting to keep up to date with the scores, and wanting to watch videos of the football action. The key finding from the report…
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BMW puts your iPhone into it’s iDrive system
BMW users no longer need to fiddle with their iPhone will driving – it’s illegal anyway, so DON’T do it – instead they’ll be able to just plug in their iPhone and see the iPhone display on their cars display, and use the car’s own iDrive system to navigate and use the phone. BMW has…
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Google’s ten new essential business apps
Google took a quick pop at Microsoft at the same time as launching ten new must-have apps on to their Google App Marketplace, and while not strictly mobile many of these apps will help you in your business. First the pop at Microsoft, in the blog post by Steven Bazyl, from the Google Apps Marketplace…
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Opera Mini 5.1 for Android released
Opera has launched it’s successful Opera Mini 5.1 browser on to the Android platform. Opera Mini 5.1 improvements include allowing users to set Opera as the default browser for more convenient Internet access, and improved page layout on high-end Android handsets with large screens. Additionally, Android users get all the other updates from the Opera…
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British Gas meter reading app goes with a bang
You don’t see too many figures for business apps, most business app users tend to be circumspect about their success or failure, so it’s good to see that something as mundane as a meter reading app is doing so well. In the notes for version 2 of British Gas’s iPhone meter reading application they reveal…
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RIM launches MobileMe like wipe and backup service for BlackBerry users
RIM has launched an invite-only, limited beta BlackBerry wipe, find and backup product BlackBerry Protect. Millions of mobile phones go missing every year and the value of the data on those phones is increasing disproportionally to the cost of the handset. Five years ago the most costly part of losing a phone was the cost…
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Businesses wasting cash on mobile broadband
A survey by mobile broadband advice site Broadband Genie found that more than half of the visitors to their site did not know how much mobile broadband data they use each month. In many cases, the visitors could be paying hundreds of pounds for data they don’t use. In a survey of more than 1,000…
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Ad network InMobi gets funding for expansion
Independent mobile ad network InMobi has secured £5.3 million in its Series B funding round to further its global expansion with an emphasis on Europe, North America, and Japan. InMobi is positioning itself as a global mobile advertising alternative to Google and Apple for advertisers, developers and publisher. InMobi, which claims that it doubled its…
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Apple iPad estimates just get bigger and bigger
Hot on the heels of our iPad sales story of yesterday where analyst and managing director at Rodman & Renshaw Ashok Kumar predicted iPad shipments to more than double to 27 million units in 2011, we now get yet another analyst re-analysing their figures, and this time it’s slightly less, but it’s still a hell…
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Mobile users are getting the hang of vouchers
New research shows that mobile users are gradually coming to terms with mobile coupons, especially in the cinema and restaurant sectors, but there’s still a long way to go. New research commissioned by the coupon and voucher services provider, Valassis, found that despite the media chat mobile coupons are still in their infancy, with 3%…
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Ericsson predict mobile broadband to hit 3.4bn by 2015
According to phone manufacturer Ericsson’s estimates mobile broadband subscriptions are set to hit 3.4 billion subscriptions by 2015 with a colossal 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Ericsson predicts mobile broadband subscriptions to increase at a faster rate than mobile subscriptions with more than 3.4 billion subscribers predicted by 2015 from 360 million in 2009,…
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Keep taking the tablets, all 27 million of them
The tablet/slate market is going to go crazy in the next couple of quarters with a tablet expected from Research In Motion (RIM), slates from Microsoft partners running Windows 7 due at the end of the year, and iPad sales estimated to hit 27 million units in 2011. Yes, we really did say 27 million.…
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Google makes Android app creation simple
Google has launched the Android App Inventor, it’s intended as a quick way of producing Android phone apps for non-technical and non-programmers ie 99.9% of the population, and from what we can see it’s really quite easy to use. The app is aimed at schools but there’s no reason why it can’t be used by…
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Can you hang on a minute I’m multitasking
Mobile’s are encouraging us all to multitask so says a new Nielsen/Yahoo survey on US surfing, watching and viewing behaviours, but advertising just isn’t stepping up to the mark. We’re multi-tasking a lot, the web is now a multi-channel world, with video, audio and text, links to Twitter, Facebook, etc and we’re all happy to…
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iPad users are big consumers of business news
Yahoo’s Ashley Cheng has released a second analysis of iPad usage across their various services eg Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News etc and the results confirmed what we thought eg iPad users are predominantly male, middle-aged (35+) and are all crazy for news, and the UK has one of the geekiest iPad markets in the…
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Android makes gains over Apple in US smartphone market
comScore’s latest MobiLens data for the three months ending May 2010 shows a significant 4% rise in the Google Android smartphone market compared to a fall in the Apple IOS, RIM, Microsoft and Palm smartphone markets. However while this all seems to be going in Google’s favour it has to be remembered that many Apple…
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T-Mobile finally announce iPhone 4 pricing
The last piece in the UK iPhone 4 jigsaw is now in place. T-mobile have finally announced their iPhone 4 pricing for pay monthly and pay as you go. Although they still haven’t announced when they will be available, it’s still described as coming soon Pay monthly pricing is roughly competitive with everyone else, although…
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The mythical mobile shopper is more than likely to be a man says survey
Mobile shopping is still in it’s infancy, but we’re making some quick progress, we’ve moved on from the retailers taking the initiative and using texts and coupons to draw us into shops, to the consumer taking the initiative and using apps like RedLaser and our own favourite Stripey Lines to price check in the shop.…
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Almost 60% of US population are accessing the net wirelessly
The latest Pew Research on Mobile Access shows that six in ten US citizens have used a mobile, wifi or a dongle to get online. The ongoing research shows that things are changing significantly from year to year, in 2009 just over half (51%) of all US adults were going online on a mobile/laptop using…