Opera have upgraded their popular Opera Mini browser, which should be good news for anyone owning a Nokia S40, Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 6300, Nokia 2700, and any one with a small screen including the Sony Ericsson K550i and Sony Ericsson W810i phones. The new version of Mini 5.1, is an update to the recently…
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iPhone and iPad users are sexy, official!!
Apple users spend more than anyone else on sex toys, statistics from the UK’s largest online sex toy retailer LoveHoney.co.uk (Warning don’t follow this link when you’re in the office) show. LoveHoney’s web traffic, showed that iPad users have the highest average spend on sex toys, closely followed by iPhone users, then Mac users. “Apple users…
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Nokia slips down the smartphone wants list
The latest YouGov Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience study shows that Nokia continues to lose market share to newer brands such as Apple and HTC. The survey finds that Nokia is failing to compete, with the numbers of smartphone owners planning on opting for a Nokia as their next mobile dropping substantially over the last six…
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Mobile ad spend to quadruple in the next five years
ABI Research has estimated that amount spent on mobile display advertising will quadruple over the next five years, the more cynical will say yes it’s going to quadruple from £1 to £4, but any rise is good especially in the current economic client. The actual figures for the current mobile ad spend in the US…
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Apps, I can handle apps
Our obsession with mobile phone applications has turned from an occasional download to a full on addictive relationship. With a fifth of smartphone users downloading more apps than six months ago, and if Gfk NOP are to be believed apps may soon replace browsers as the main gateway to the web for British consumers. GfK…
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Mobile TV revenues to hit £4.6bn by 2015
Mobile TV is to finally arrive as WiFi becomes a standard in mobile devices with revenues reaching £4.6bn by 2015 For years now the networks and the handset manufacturers have been telling us that this year is finally going to be the year of mobile TV and each year it isn’t. So it’s tempting to…
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Backup your iPad
LogMeIn Rescue can now backup your iPad, although, surely if you’re really sensible you should be saving all of your data in the cloud and using the iPads wifi and wireless capabilities. However that’s us getting nitpicky and totally missing the fact that people don’t backup as much as they should, or the actual target…
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Mobile email users to top one billion by 2014
Analyst Gartner has predicted that wireless email users will top one billion by 2014, and says the commoditisation of wireless email owing to mobile support from cloud services vendors is accelerating. Gartner predicts that worldwide wireless e-mail users will reach one billion by year-end 2014, up substantially from 80 million in early 2010 as productivity…
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Three-Quarters of US online retailers are developing mobile strategies
Three-Quarters of online retailers are developing mobile strategies, according to Shop.org/Forrester Research and are spending £112,000 per year on developing mobile solutions. Online retailers will have to speed up their mobile marketing initiatives to satisfy consumers’ increasing appetite for mobile applications. Some 74% of online retailers have either already developed or are developing a mobile…
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18-34 year olds open to mobile as part of cross-channel commerce
Ecommerce business ATG has released a consumer report on cross-channel marketing and there’s some encouraging news for mobile in there, particularly if you’re aiming at a young(ish) audience. ATG asked over a 1000 US consumers how they purchased goods, what part the different channels (mobile, store, mobile etc ) played in those purchases, and how…
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World mobile population now numbers 5 billion
Last week ABI research were saying that by the end of 2010 the worldwide mobile population would exceed five billion, but according to analysts The Mobile World we’ve already hit the 5 billionth user this weekend. And although it was the July 4 weekend the five billionth mobile subscriber was probably living in India or…
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Apple – it’s the bars fault not the phone
Oh dear, more bar problems for Apple, first they lose a phone in a bar now they screw up the way they calculate the bars. Apple have posted an explanatory note regarding the iPhone reception problem, and apparently it’s a problem in the way they calculate the signal strength, and it’s really all right really,…
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Distimo releases the first Apple iPad app data
Distimo have launched their latest report on app usage for May 2010 and it now includes Apple iPad App store usage as well as the usual list of usual suspects. The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than…
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O2 is restocking with iPhone 4’s today
O2 has just tweeted that it will be restocking with iPhone 4’s this weekend and you’ll be able to find where from 12am (midday) today. Since the iPhone 4 launch last week the shiny new Apple gadget has flown of the shelves like hotcakes, and it’s been hard to track one down, so it’s great…
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Apple 4th most successful ecommerce vendor in UK
Experian Hitwise have published their 4 Year Anniversary Edition of the IMRG Hitwise Hot shops list and Apple are at number 4 a jump from their 17th position in May last year, and all on the back of the launch of the iPad. If the iPhone 4 traffic was added in who knows it could…
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iPad owners are rich, posh and southern
According to Hitwise’s latest stats round up, potential iPad and iPhone owners are rich, West London liberals. The latest Hitwise findings show UK Internet traffic to the official iPad website increased significantly in the run-up to the launch. Over 30% of visits to the site during the 4 weeks ending May 22 came from London…
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Google Docs goes mobile
Google has launched via their Googlemobile blog a mobile website version of its Google Docs viewer, which lets people read PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and Word docs in their browser. The site works for Android, iPhone and iPad, and lets people pan and zoom within pages, and use pinch-to-zoom on the iPhone and iPad. This is…
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84% of mobile broadband users suffer connection problems
The latest findings from YouGov’s Dongle Tracker survey found that a huge proportion of users – 84 per cent to be exact – had issues with their connection. Chief among the problems cited was slow speeds, affecting 67 per cent of users. Close to half (49 per cent), had problems with coverage and 45 per…
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1.7 million people can’t be wrong
Apple has said that it sold more than 1.7 million units of the iPhone 4 in the first three days, making it the most successful product launch in the company’s history from the standpoint of sales. A quick back of the fag packet calculation shows that the iPhone 4 has given Apple and the Apple…
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Mobile viewers do it at night
According to Opera’s monthly stat-fest State of the Mobile Web Report mobile users are a bunch of night owls, the survey found that around the world, 8 p.m. to midnight are the day’s prime mobile browsing hours. Regardless of differences in economy, culture or location, those four evening hours account for a disproportionate amount of…