Analysts ABI Research are bullishly speculating that mobile marketing will increase by over 40% a year up to 2015. ABI research says mobile marketing in 2009 was worth well under £350 million ($500 million), which by our rough calculations means that by 2015 mobile marketing will be hitting around £1.8 billion ($2.57 billion) a year.…
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iTunes iPad UK store now live
There’s a week to go to the official launch and the UK iPad site on iTunes has gone live. There’s some UK content in there but the pricing is in US dollars and cents, and the majority of the content is still US. In a report by web site ElectricPig they found a different look…
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PayPal adds Android to it’s iPhone developer toolkit
Payments giant PayPal have added Android to their list of devices, with their latest update of their Mobile Payments Library. The library enables Android developers to add a PayPal payments system to their applications with a library of standard functions that can be added quickly and simply. The Mobile Payments Library allows developers to add…
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Apple dominates Quantcast’s mobile web consumption figures
Web analytics business Quantcast has been drip-feeding data on UK and European web consumption all this week and they’ve finally got to mobile. The figures show Apple dominating the market with a market with what Quantcast describes as “a relatively high smartphone penetration.” The figures released by Quantcast in some very nice colourful graphics, show…
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Windows developers can now build iPhone apps
One of the main drawbacks for the “truly” mass market development of iPhone apps has been the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) which you need to write an test an iPhone app. The problem with the SDK are; a) it’s only available on a Mac b) it’s an Apple proprietary version of programming language C…
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Twitter official iPhone app now out
What’s new in version 3 of Tweetie? Well it’s now called Twitter and so far it’s been released in New Zealand and is making it’s way around the world, so we’re only hours away from getting it in the UK/US. UPDATE 7pm – The app is now live and ready for download http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8 New features…
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Argos to launch iPhone app after huge Apple user interest
Argos customers will soon be able to access over 25,000 Argos products on the move, following the launch of the free Argos iPhone Application which is expected to launch in the coming days. Argos is confident of high consumer demand for the App following a traffic increase of over 600% from mobile Apple devices to…
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Mobile gaming revenue to grow to £3.9 billion
Worldwide mobile gaming end-user revenue is forecast to surpass £3.9 billion ($5.6 billion) in 2010, a 19% increase from 2009 revenue of £3.28 billion ($4.7 billion), according to Gartner. The market will continue to see steady growth through 2014, when the market is projected to reach £7.94 billion ($11.4 billion). “The hype around mobile application…
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Mobile phone sales grew 17% in first quarter 2010
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17% increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an increase of 48.7% from the first quarter of 2009. With Android phones seeing a 707% growth…
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UK spends £422 million on mobile software applications each year
LG have released a survey on Android apps ahead of the release of their new Android phone – the LG Optimus GT540 handset, and the app of choice for UK users from the 50,000 Android apps available is a money saving app rather than a gaming or lifestyle app. LG estimates that the UK spends…
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Twitter to launch it’s own iPhone app today
If you’re looking for the Atebits Tweetie 2 app today then don’t bother, it’s been removed to allow for the new official Twitter app If you go to iTunes US and UK Tweetie no longer shows up. Links to Tweetie 2 on itunes also now return error messages. However according to Mobile Entertainment site people…
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Facebook goes free on mobile
Facebook has launched a free service 0.facebook.com designed for the third-world – and is only available to certain countries see list at the bottom – which will allow users to get access to Facebook for free. Facebook anytime, anywhere 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but…
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blinkx launches mobile video search site
Video search engine blinkx has launched a public beta version of its world-class product that is specifically designed for mobile access at http://m.blinkx.com/. Starting today (19 May 2010), users can access the blinkx Mobile Video Search beta site from any phone with a web browser that can play MP4s, included in the following list: Apple…
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The Getties application awards launched
Mobile app download site Getjar has launched the Getties a new annual competition for the best application on a mobile platform. The awards are open to applications written for Android, BlackBerry, Java, iPhone, Symbian and even Windows. A panel of industry heavyweights will select 18 nominees (3 in each of the 6 categories) from the…
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Smartphone sales on the rise
iSuppli handset figures for the first quarter of 2010 are out and they contain yet another indication of the smart phone’s revolutionary impact on mobile, as both RIM and Apple rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place. RIM, whose…
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Visa confirms iPhone payment service
As we reported a few weeks ago Visa will be launching a NFC (Near Field Communication) add-on for the iPhone to allow iPhone users to simply flash their phone to pay for goods, get into buildings, and travel. The Visa device is an external case that plugs into the bottom of the iPhone via the…
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FT launches iPad app
The Financial Times following on from the Express the BBC – in the US – has launched an iPad app. The FT’s free iPad app – it’s sponsored by very expensive watchmakers Hublot – watch will provide access to video, markets data, investment portfolios, news and analysis. The new app integrates with the FT.com limited…
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iPhone 4G to sell 19.5 million in first year
Apple could ship over 24 million iPhones in 2010 and 19 million next-generation 4G iPhones according to a new report in Digitimes. The Digitimes number includes shipments of 4.5 million units shipped in the first half of 2010 before the new model is launched. With as many as 19.5 million next-generation iPhones in the second…
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Amazon release Kindle for Android in summer
Amazon is to launch a free Kindle app for Android to join the free versions for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, BlackBerry. Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Android phones, is coming “this summer” according to the press release although there’s no…
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Netbook market to get a 20 million iPad tablet boost
Last year ABI Research forecast that approximately 35 million netbooks would ship into world markets in the course of the year – an estimate was viewed in some quarters as unrealistically high – they were wrong, by the end of 2009 36.3 million netbooks shipped. This year they estimate 58 million netbooks will be shipped…