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Steve Jobs, the computer visionary and Apple co-founder who led a renaissance at the company and revolutionized the music, mobile and entertainment markets has died after a long battle with health issues. He was just 56. His death was confirmed by Apple. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that...
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Android topples RIM in the US to grab first place in the smartphone market.
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Android is expected to take 45% of the smartphone market by 2016 up from 23% in 2010.
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Google is adding its name to the list of businesses planning on some sort of mobile payments system,
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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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Analysts expect Apple to have sold close to a million iPad 2 devices on the debut weekend, creating around $633 million in revenue, and the Smart Cover may even break $1 billion in revenue this year. The iPad 2 went on sale on Friday at 5pm to walk in buyers and at 4am to online buyers...
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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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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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ABI Research figures for 2010 are all in and unsurprisingly Nokia still dominate the market with just over a third of the Worldwide market, however Samsung are catching up and account for one in five phones in the market. The ABI Research figures for Q4 2010 make for some interesting viewing. Nokia is still...
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The iPad2 is finally out of the bag – or rather it will be to lucky people in the US in 9 days time – and it looks fantastic. The headline features are; thinner, lighter, more powerful, faster, with more features, an interesting cover, and all for the same price with the same 10...
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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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Oh the irony, the rumours yesterday were all of delays for the iPad 2 and today we actually have a day for the launch. Apple have sent out invites for an event on March 2 with a tantalising glimpse of an iPad and the words “come see what 2011 will be the year of.”...
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New rumours are surfacing saying that Apple’s long awaited iPad 2, will be late, and will be heading for a June launch not April as expected. As we have said before More iPad 2 Feb 2011 rumours, Apple is normally very regular with their hardware launches, the iPhone, Macbooks, ipods etc all operate on...
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The fastest way to a smartphone user is via an app or messaging as new research shows smartphone users spend more time with their apps and messaging than they do on calls and web browsing. According to the study, commissioned by, the research arm of the GSMA, mobile apps are responsible for 667 minutes...
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Google has launched a new payment system that allows users to subscribe to online content for a 10% commission fee. Just one day after Apple made its App Store subscription service available to publishers, Google has already responded by announcing a similar service for its Android platform. The solution will also work in Web-based...
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Apple has launched its long awaited content subscription service on iTunes. The newly launched iTunes subscription service is available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the same App Store billing system that has...
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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,...
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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...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 17.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10), a new quarterly high driven by smartphones. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, shows vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009....
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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...
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