Apple has launched it’s iTunes Rewind 2010, which lists the best selling, top grossing and free apps for the iPhone and iPad of the year in the US and it’s no surprise that Angry Birds is the top app or near the top on nearly all the charts, Facebook probably only got the number one…
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Mobile marketing company Internetq floats to £31 million valuation
Greek Mobile marketing and mobile community building company, Internetq floated on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today, valuing the business at more than £31 million at the market close. The business is one of the first mobile marketing businesses to float since the market started to take off earlier this year, and reveals just…
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Apple to allow app sharing
A new Apple patent, which in theory will allow iPad, iPhone, and Mac users to share apps, has been unearthed. The new patent, discovered by web site Patently Apple, will allow iPhone, iPad and possible Mac app users on the new Mac app store to share apps with their friends. According to the Patently Apple…
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Who doesn’t sell the iPad? Not Tesco?
Tesco have big full page ads in the papers today, to announce the iPad is now on sale at selected Tesco stores, and it’s also available online from Tesco Direct. However Tesco seem to have underestimated the UK’s desire to buy iPads. Unfortunately it’s no cheaper than the Apple online and offline stores, and the…
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Android users do it more than iPhone users
Android users download more than iPhone users according to a new study issued by network management software solutions provider Arieso Arieso’s figures show that new smartphones users download up to 40% more data and upload more than 120% more data compared to Apple’s iPhone 3Gs. Using the iPhone 3GS as a benchmark, Arieso reports that…
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Now we can all be Kindle publishers
Amazon have opened up their Kindle books to any platform that supports a web browser from eBooks to iPads, to the latest Google Chrome devices, so now anyone with a website can become a Kindle book publisher. Amazon announced that their “Kindle for the Web” service will expand to enable anyone with access to a…
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50% of smartphone users ready for mobile commerce
A recent survey of consumer technology users “Consumer Technology Barometer: Mobile (Q3 2010)” conducted by ABI Research in the United States has revealed that nearly half of smartphone users say they have already, or soon will, use their phones to do mobile shopping. 53% also use, or intend to use, their smartphones for mobile banking.…
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Orange launches new app initiative
In an effort to get more developers to build apps for their app store – yes they have an app store – Orange are trying to make the development and approval process more streamlined, and they’re offering a 70/30 split, at last.. Orange’s new Orange Partner Connect, is designed as a “one-stop shop” for developers…
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Mobile ad platform Flurry gets a cash injection
There’s money in those mobile ad hills! Just a day after new ad platform MoPub received seed funding, smartphone application ads and analytics platform Flurry, gets $15 million in Series C round financing. The round was led by US Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures and included existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest, First Round Capital and Union…
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Marks & Spencer’s mobile grabs the EMMAs
Retailer Marks & Spencer walked away with two awards at the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards (EMMAs) ceremony in London, making it the most awarded business of the night. The high-Street retailer, took the award for Most Effective Mobile Site, created by Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), and for Most Effective Mobile CRM/Enterprise Messaging Campaign, where it…
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DigiPos launches Mcommerce app platform
Solutions provider for retailers, DigiPoS, has launched its MobileShopper mcommerce ecosystem, and claims it’s the first off-the-shelf package to combine, an app, mcommerece, mobile coupons and self-scanning technologies and more, in one solution. The MobileShopper iPhone app combines online shopping with the in-store experience, and is aimed at propelling retailers into the future; with the…
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New advertising platform launching in US
We normally ignore releases about new mobile advertising platforms, but this one made us sit up and take notice. MoPub – any company name with the word pub in it always gets our attention – is a new US ad serving platform start up created by ex employees of Google and AdMob, and is funded…
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Halfords launch transactional mobile site
Halfords has launched its first ever transactional mobile website, and it’s the first mass UK retailer to offer PayPal as a mobile payment method. The transactional site builds on the success of Halfords’ mobile site, which went live in August, and adds further enhancements to the site in addition to the ability to pay for…
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Apple to ship iPad 2 for Feb 2011?
The Digitimes has a story (Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by the end of February 2011) saying that Foxconn the manufacturer of Apple’s iPad have been given 100 days to produce and ship the first iPad 2 devices, so anyone thinking of getting a cheap subsidised iPad and who want to be cutting edge should…
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MobiCart launches m-commerce shopping cart platform
Geordie start up software business MobiCart has launched a free, m-commerce storefront development solution for Apple iOS and Google Android devices. The free software allows you to create an m-commerce store and is already getting big clients. First shown in September as a public Beta, MobiCart has now been released for general use by anyone…
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New UK mobile VoIP service from Vyke
Vyke Mobile, the global mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider, has just launched a UK specific service with a new UK website, and a new range of competitive mobile VoIP pricing services for the UK. As with most VoIP service Vyke customers can make free calls over WiFi and 3G to other Vyke customers ,…
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Google launches the Nexus S for Christmas
Google has launched its awaited second smartphone the Nexus S onto the market. The Nexus S comes less than a year after Google’s first mobile the Nexus One and it will be the first device to ship with Gingerbread aka Android 2.3. Phone features include a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip for non-contact payments, VOIP…
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eBook sales to double to 30 million in 2011
eBook readers are set for big sales next year, with 100% growth expected. The market for eBook readers has until now been largely restricted to the United States, and in the US it has been led by Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Sony’s Reader. But according to ABI Research, starting in 2013 eBook…
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In-app billing to be present in around 1 in 3 apps in 2011
In-app billing adoption has been slower than predicted but Bango forecasts this will change in 2011 with an estimated 30% of all apps next year expected to be using in-app billing, In the mobile market, in-app billing as a charging model has been talked about for a long time, but it has still to take…
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Google grabs majority of US mobile search revenue
Google will end 2010 with a 59% share of the $877 million US mobile advertising market, according to a new report from IDC. The US mobile-ad market, including search and display ads, has more than doubled since last year, when it reached $368 million in sales. IDC attributes the growth to companies devoting larger slices…