Digitimes Research estimates Android will takes 70% of the worldwide handset market in the second half of 2012
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Android to be 70% of handset market in 2H2012
37% of published apps have been removed from the Android Market
Research by Research2guidance has revealed that the Android market is growing faster than iPhone and it would be almost catching up with IOS if it wasn’t for those pesky App store owners. The Research2guidance (R2G) research shows that while there are tens of thousands of new Android apps appearing, there are an equally significant...
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Angry Birds Rio 10 million downloads in 10 days
Angry Birds latest mobile game hit 10 million downloads in as many days. Game developer Rovio Mobile said that the latest addition to its exceptionally popular Angry Birds series surpassed 10 million downloads within its first 10 days on the market. Rovio Tweeted “10 in 10 :-) Angry Birds Rio breaking all records” The 10 million...
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Android accounts for 1 in 3 smartphone users in US
Android topples RIM in the US to grab first place in the smartphone market.
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Windows Phone 7 hits 11,500 apps with 65% paid v’s 35% free
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Marketplace boasts of faster growth than the other app stores.
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Half a billion a year spent on apps in the UK
More than half a billion (£581 million) is spent by UK consumers via apps
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Android to have 45% of smartphone market by 2016
Android is expected to take 45% of the smartphone market by 2016 up from 23% in 2010.
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At last – Google gets tough with Android
Google clamps down on Android fiddlers and tweakers
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Windows Phone to be the number two mobile OS by 2015
Smartphone sales are to grow by nearly 50% in 2011 and for Windows Phone to be the number 2 OS by 2015.
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ViewSonic try for free tablet computer
Viewsonic allow users to try out the ViewPad 7 for 30 days for free, could this be a free way to test your tablet apps?
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It’s official – BlackBerry PlayBook to run Android apps
RIM has announced that it will let the PlayBook run BlackBerry Java apps and Android v2.3 apps.
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App discovery still creating problems
App discovery is still a major problem for app builders, but there's some good news for Android developers as more say they'll move to Android for their next phone.
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Debenhams make £1 million sales from their iPhone app
Debenhams iPhone app has boosted Debenhams sales by over £1 million in the last five months, and has prompted them to launch a new Android and Nokia app. Following the success of their iPhone app Debenhams has launched an app for Android and Nokia phones, making the retailer the first on the high street...
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Google launches AdMob toolkit for Windows Phone 7
Google have launched an AdMob beta SDK for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) so Windows app developers can get access to revenue and advertisers can exploit the new OS. The new Beta WP7 developers allows developers to integrate advertising into their applications, control where the ads appear, and what types of ads are shown in...
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Tesco sells more Android phones than iPhones
Tesco now sells more Android phones than iPhones. File under “It had to happen”, Mobile Today has a report that Tesco are now selling more Android phones than iPhones. It comes as no surprise that Apple iPhones are being outsold by Android, after all there are more models and more manufacturers producing Android phones,...
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Android app downloads exceeded 1.9 billion in 2010
Android in it’s various guises notched up 1.9 billion downloads in 2010, a quarter of the total 2010 downloads. 2010 saw considerable growth in the mobile applications market for both Apple and Google Android and more competition is expected in 2011. Despite more proactive involvement in app store development from other platform providers, Apple’s...
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Android the best selling smartphone handset in the US
comScore’s January US figures from their MobiLens survey shows Android taking the lead among smartphone platforms with 31.2% market share, after two short months in second place. Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older with mobile phone almost 65.8 million (28%) now have a smartphones, that’s up 8% from the preceding three-month period and...
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One in five new tablets sold is an Android device
Android is making huge inroads into the Apple iPad tablet heartland with one in five new tablets running Android. The latest research from market research company Strategy Analytics, finds Android making big gains in the tablet market. According to the research during Q4 2010, 22% of the 10 million tablet devices that where shipped...
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Android apps to outpace iOS by mid-2012
The App Genome project has measured a huge growth in the number of Android apps since August 2010 The App Genome Project is a survey by mobile security app business Lookout (they produce the rather good SmrtGuard iPhone/Android/BlackBerry/Windows app) and the latest figures culled from 500,000 users across the iOS and Android platforms in...
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RIM to run Android apps on BlackBerry devices?
Even with the best will in the World, BlackBerry hasn’t a hope in hell of catching up with Android or the iPhone in the apps war, so if you can’t beat them join them. The constant criticism that the Blackberry is getting for its poor showing in the app department – 10+k apps and...
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