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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Apple beware, Android and Ovi are getting big
A couple of new snippets of info on the apps market released this week show that you’d be silly – nay stupid – just to concentrate all your efforts on building apps for the Apple platforms. There was plenty of big news for Android developers released at this week’s Google I/O jamboree in San Francisco’s…
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Smartphone sales on the rise
iSuppli handset figures for the first quarter of 2010 are out and they contain yet another indication of the smart phone’s revolutionary impact on mobile, as both RIM and Apple rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place. RIM, whose…
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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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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…