Hitwise stats show that Google’s presence in the mobile market is growing with the searches for Android OS apps increasing by 466% in the last year. According to Hitwise’s monthly stats on search in the UK, searches for ‘android apps’ increased 6.25% in the last month and 466% year-on-year. Elsewhere in the stats, Hitwise report…
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App builders favour Android
Developers may soon be voting with their feet and abandoning iOS if an IDC/Appcelerator survey of mobile app developers is to be believed. A September 2010 developer survey from IDC, sponsored by app builder Appcelerator finds that despite developers only having nine countries to reap profits from paid apps, and the significant updates to the…
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Android adding new countries to paid apps
Android developers have received an email with the good news that more markets are arriving, the bad news is they’re not saying which. If you selected to publish your paid apps in all locations then this is for you. The email (below) sent from the Android Market Team on 24 September tells developers that Android…
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Michael Dell whips out his seven-incher
Dell CEO Michael Dell has previewed a second Android tablet to complement its five-inch Streak device. Michael Dell was delivering the Wednesday Keynote “Innovation in the Enterprise” at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, when he started to describe the Dell Streak he then said “Of course, it’s nice to have a larger screen,”…
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New fast Android typing app SwiftKey launches today
Get ready to start typing at lightning speed. SwiftKey by business startup TouchType has been in beta for the last three months and as of today – 23 September – it’s gone live on the android market – download here. By using special Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques SwiftKey claims to be able to predict your…
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Dropbox updates iOS and Android apps and launches on BlackBerry
You’re on the road, a customer calls and he wants the latest version of a file, trouble is it’s on your laptop at home. What do you do? Well if you’ve got an iPad/iPhone or an Android phone you go and download Dropbox, and then you sit back calm in the knowledge that you now…
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comScore – Android sees significant growth in US
comScore has released data from latest July survey of key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2010. The big change is the increase in the Smartphone market share for Android. It produced a staggering 5% growth for the quarter. Elsewhere not much changed, which is surprising…
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WeTab to launch the first MeeGo tablet
WeTab*, a German tablet computer start-up, is set to launch “the first shipped MeeGo-based tablet in the world” next week, offering the WeTab product initially in its home market, with availability through retailer Media Markt. The company is a partner of Intel, one of the main proponents of the platform, and the planned shipping was…
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Tesco creating an Android grocery app
In an amusing post on his blog Tesco’s head of R&D Nick Lansley has promised users that Tesco will be producing an Android app and providing a barcode update to their current iPhone app. Lansley quotes a post from reader B0lty on his site: Why haven’t you included a barcode scanner? More like why haven’t…
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25% of searches from Android phones are by voice
A new stat to impress the children has appeared on the Google Mobile Blog, according to Heaven Kim, Product Marketing person for Google Mobile “one in every four searches from an Android phone in the US is by voice.” We’re actually quite stunned by that fact here at Bmob as in the UK we haven’t…
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Android closes in on mobile OS top spot say Gartner
Last week we reported that IDC were predicting Android would hit the number one spot, and this week it’s the turn of Gartner. Google’s Android could be on the verge of becoming the world’s largest smartphone operating system by 2014, according to new figures from Gartner. The research firm forecasts that by this point there…
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Froyo use growing fast
Figures from the Google Android Developers website developers.android.com show that Froyo (Android version 2.2) is being downloaded and installed by a healthy number of users. Figures on the site (see below) show that over 28.7% of users accessing the Android Market within the last 14-days are using Froyo. This however does not mean that 28.7%…
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App figures round up – Android now number two
We’re just doing some work on applications here at Business Mobile for a business partner, and part of that is to try and see the size of the market, so we went hunting for figures on the number of applications in the wild. Unfortunately we just couldn’t find a single place with good figures that…
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Android to be number one mobile platform by 2015
Figures from Gartner show Android will be the number two platform by the end of 2010 and should surpass the number one platform Symbian – Yes we said Symbian not Apple or RIM – by the end of 2014. The worldwide mobile operating system (OS) market will be dominated by Symbian and Android, as the…
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IDC bet on Android to continue to top Apple iOS
According to a recent post on eweek a new research note from IDC has predicted that Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, both Apple and BlackBerry will experience declines. Which is stating the obvious but it’s always good to reinforce the message that mobile is not just all…
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Android web consumption rises off the back of Droid devices
More Android users are getting onto the mobile web bandwagon according to the latest traffic stats from Quancast, which show Google’s OS catching up with Apple’s iOS. Apple’s iOS platform is still a way ahead of Android in web browsing terms according to Quancast’s stats, but Android is rapidly gaining ground on its rival. In…
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Android tablet for under £130 launched
’70s retro label Binatone are to launch two, sub two hundred pound Android tablet devices. When we were young Binatone was the label that signified cheap and cheerful audio goods, from hi-fi’s to alarm clock radios. Over the intervening years it’s changed and is now concentrating on the portable electronics market, and it’s recently done…
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New BT Wifi finding app for iPhone and Android
BT have launched a package of new free smartphone apps to help users find and connect to its Wifi hotspots. The new apps available for both iPhone and Android based devices allow users to search for nearby hotspots including BT Openzone and BT FON and if users are BT customers, they can connect automatically. The…
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Android web browsing grows by 400% in US
Bango stats show web browsing on the rise for Android users. According to new statistics released by Bango mobile analytics and payment specialist, the volume of mobile web browsing from Android phones in the USA grew by 400% between Q1 and Q2 2010. In comparison the volume of growth from Apple devices was just 13% over…
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HP Tablet out in 2011
HP have confirmed their webOS tablet for early 2011. Hewlett-Packard confirmed it will release a webOS-based tablet early next year, adding another forthcoming entrant to the growing tablet market and yet another contender for Apple’s iPad. While HP has indicated in the past that a tablet product based on Palm’s operating system was in the…