It’s very easy to forget just how small Apple’s mobile market share actually is. The hype is so big for Apple that everything just seems to get lost in a snowstorm of words and we’re just as guilty as the next party. However when you look at charts like the one below you realise just…
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Mobile Payments Market to Quadruple by 2014 to £418bn
The Mobile Payments Markets: Strategies & Forecasts 2010-2014 from Juniper Research predicts that the value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach almost £418bn by 2014, up from £113bn in 2010. With the top three regions for mobile payments (Far East & China, W.…
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O2 launches two embedded laptops
O2 has has made it’s foray into the embedded laptop market with exclusive versions of the new ultra-thin Asus UL30A laptop and the Samsung N150 netbook. Customers signing up to the new deals will benefit from inclusive Wi-Fi through BT Openzone and The Cloud, an extended two year warranty, 30 days O2 Techies support, McAfee…
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iPhone is now the number three device for Opera
Opera’s monthly State of the Mobile Web report includes an iPhone preview and in just two weeks iPhone users have moved to the third-most popular handset for Opera Mini users worldwide. The release of the iPhone also looks like it will change the top 10 list, as according to preliminary numbers, the United States may…
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Nexus not a great seller and iPhone OS takes a dive?
New figures from AdMob’s monthly ad round up http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Mar-10.pdf show that the Google Nexus has been a bit of a damp squib when compared to any of it’s sister Android devices, accounting for just 2% of all adverts to Android devices. However at the operating system level Android is making real inroads into Apple’s lucrative…
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What are people looking at on mobile?
Mobile Commerce have published a short white paper on mobile search snappily entitled ‘Mobile Search: What are people searching for and how do they search for it’ which shows how mobile search affects search bidding, natural mobile internet and web results and shows how mobile sites can be monetised by adding a search box and…
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Twitter sends 1bn sms a month and buys the company sending them
Twitter has bought out its SMS partner Cloudhopper for an undisclosed amount. The start up has been working with Twitter to build Twitter’s SMS messaging service and as of Friday April 23 it is now part of the messaging community. Cloudhopper, a messaging infrastructure company has enabled Twitter to connect directly to mobile carrier networks…
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Blockbuster launches mobile promotional scheme
Creaking video chain Blockbuster has dragged some of its hulk into the 21st century with a mobile promotional voucher. The solution produced by Commidea and Eagle Eye Solutions allows the video rental company to send text messages to its customers containing unique codes and information about its Night In promotional offer. Customers on T-Mobile can…
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Twitter still growing fast
Twitter released a mountain of statistics at Chirp chirp.twitter.com, the company’s developer conference, about its business. According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, over the past three years: Twitter has grown to a massive 105.7 million registered users (and it’s increasing by 300,000 each day, with 50% from outside of the US), with 180 million visitors…
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Opera Mini hits a million downloads in a day
Apple said “Yes”, and iPhone users around the world said, “Yes, please”. Opera Mini was downloaded more than one million times (1,023,380 according to Apple’s download count) in its first day of availability and according to Opera, Mini is now currently the number one iPhone app in the 22 featured Apple App Stores on their…
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9 out of 10 US adults have a mobile
New findings from Experian Simmons show that mobile phones have fast become are an essential part of everyday life in the US, with nine out of 10 U.S. adults today using at least one mobile device and 35% of mobile phone users now paying $100 a month or more for service. Fully 87% of all…
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UK leads Europe in Smartphone race
comScore released a study of the smartphone market in Europe showing that smartphone adoption in the EU5 (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown 32 percent versus a year ago to 51.6 million subscribers. Whilst growth can be seen across the range of monthly subscription fees, the mid to low tier is growing faster than…
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Twitter not dead yet
Twitter has a reputation of being a broadcast medium, with just a few users twittering and everyone following, but new figures from Sysomos seem to show that those silent users are starting to get a little noisier. Sysomos looked at over a billion tweets made in the last four months and found that the number…
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eBay to sell over $1.5 billion worth of goods on mobile in 2010
eBay has announced that it is on track to reach a whopping $1.5 billion worth of goods sold via mobile phones in 2010 – more than double the mobile GMV (gross merchandise value) it registered in 2009 ($600 million). The company claims its primary iPhone app, which is available in more than 190 countries and…
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iPhone gamers spend a packet
DFC Intelligence has released the results of a survey of how much money iPhone and iPod touch owners spending on games, and how often, and not surprisingly – games being one of the most popular categories on the app store – it’s a fairly hefty amount. The survey “Consumer Trends in Virtual Goods and Downloadable…
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Apple to launch personal advertising network
Apple is expected to reveal the first fruit from its purchase of ad network Quattro. The new personalised, mobile advertising system humourlessly described as the iAd by newswire Online Media Daily is expected to be officially unveiled to the madmen of Madison Avenue on April 7th. The ad platform has been described as “revolutionary” and…
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Nokia buys Novarra
Nokia has signed an agreement to acquire transcoding business Novarra and intends to initially embed the technology into Nokia Series 40 devices and that’s not good news, especially for any one who has invested time and effort in creating a purpose built mobile site. According to the Novarra’s mobile browser and services platform will be…
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Gartner’s top ten mobile technologies to watch
Analysts Gartner has identified 10 mobile technologies that they say organisations need to look at over the next 12 months, as they will evolve significantly in ways that will impact short-term mobile strategies and policies. The report “Ten Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010 and 2011“. According to Gartner the 10 mobile technologies to watch…
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Opera turns into a cash cow for operators?
In the latest Opera State of the Mobile Web Report Opera show that Opera Mini generates nearly $1.25 billion per year for mobile operators in just the top 10 countries for Opera Mini. With the United States leading the way with Opera Mini generating more than $146 per user per year. Big numbers at last!…
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Give your users a choice
According to research from CrowdScience when it comes to smartphones, choice is the best way to create loyal consumers. Unfortunately as CrowdScience points out this also applies to businesses, and the default business phone “the crackberry” may actually be harming the Blackberry brand. Researcher found that 60% of consumers who had some choice in their…