This YouTube video demonstrates how spectacularly successful Android has been at conquering the world mobile market. The video from the Android Developers channel maps Android activations over time on to a world map and on to the major regions Europe, Americas, Asia, and moves from the launch back in October 2008 to January 2011. The…
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Android now the number one smartphone
Android is now the number one operating system for smartphones and dislodges Symbian from the number one position it has held for 10 years. According to research company Canalys, Android sold 32.9 million devices during Q4 2010, overtaking Symbian, which sold 31 million. This represents a 615% year on year sales increase for Android, and…
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A quarter of downloaded apps are used only once
Bad news if you’re thinking of producing an app that will make you millions, a new survey has found that most downloaded apps are used only once. Localytics studied the thousands of Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 apps over the last year, and the good news is that users are willing to…
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US smartphone users increased by 60 percent in 2010
comScore figures for December 2010 show a year on year increase of 60% for smartphone usage in the US market, and Android continues its steady growth with a 7.3% rise in the last quarter of 2010 According to comScore figures 63.2 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in December…
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Smartphone shipments grew by 59% in 2010
Worldwide shipments of smartphones continue to rise with 2010 sales figures hitting new highs for every manufacturer. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew an impressive 75% annually to reach a record 94 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010. Apple maintained its small lead over RIM, while Nokia…
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Mobile developers are switching to tablet apps over Android
Tablets – particularly iPad tablets – are hot property with mobile developers according to the Appcelerator Mobile Developer Report, and the desire to get a iPad app out has put developers off developing for Android. Appcelerator and IDC surveyed 2,235 Appcelerator Titanium developers from January 10-12, 2011 on perceptions surrounding mobile OS priorities, feature priorities,…
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Android to grow more than twice the rate of major competitors in 2011
Android will continue to grow at more than twice the rate of its major smart phone competitors in 2011, according to Analysts Canalys. Canalys Q3 2010 estimates, show the Android platform already claims a 25% share of the worldwide smart phone market, with over 20 million shipments of Android-based worldwide. ‘The growth of Android has…
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Android ad requests to Millennial Media grew by 3130% in 2010
Android ad requests to the Millennial Media ad platform grew by 3130% in 2010. 2010 was a bumper year for Android according to Millennial – who themselves did very well in 2010 they’re now third largest mobile ad network with 15.4% of the market – not only did they grow by 3130% over the year…
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Android to be the platform of choice for developers in 2011
Millennial Media’s November 2010 Mobile Mix report reveals that nearly a third of mobile developers are looking to develop for Android in 2011 The Millennial Media Mobile Mix report shows the choice of platform for developers in 2011 is Android with 29% of the developers polled, followed by the iPad (20%) and Windows Phone 7…
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iPad and Android top trends on Twitter for 2010
Micro-blogging giant Twitter has released its list of the top trending topics on the platform for the year with Apple’s iPad and Google’s Android fighting it out for top ten placings. According to The Twitter blog , the Gulf oil spill, FIFA World Cup and the movie Inception were the top three overall trends for…
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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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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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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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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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Smartphones now used by 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers
comScore’s quarterly mobile figures for the three months to October 2010 reveal that nearly 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers are on smartphones, and Android continues to grow with a substantial 6.5% growth rate in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older who use mobile devices,…
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Smartphone market to increase by 67% in 2011
Morgan Stanley’s forecasts for 2011 and Q4 2010 show a bumper increase for Android, that should rocket them into the number one position. Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum thinks the smartphone market will grow to 297 million devices next year, up 62% year-over-year, with Android taking a 38% market share with 112 million Android shipments…
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Blackberry overtakes Apple iOS
BlackBerry OS overtook Apple’s iOS for the first time in the UK and the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that for the first time in the UK the BlackBerry OS at 43.45% overtook Apple’s iOS which recorded…
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Mobile app development to surpass development on all other platforms
According to the 2010 IBM Tech Trends Survey, conducted online by IBM developerWorks, more than half of all IT professionals (55 percent) expect mobile software application development for devices such as iPhone and Android, and even tablet PCs like iPad and PlayBook, will surpass application development on all other traditional computing platforms by 2015. Programmers…
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Google’s Schmidt maps out it’s NFC future
As we reported earlier on in the week Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt mapped out the search giants plans for NFC and the inclusion of the technology in the next version of the Android operating system at the Web 2.0 Summit. If you weren’t there then YouTube has the full video of his interview and we’ve…
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Nexus Two coming this Christmas
The Google Nexus One launched earlier this year and removed from sale after a relatively short period is to have a successor and this time it’s a phone designed to make all the m-commerce gurus happy. Speaking at the current Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt revealed the new device, and…