Figures from web site NetMarketShare show’s Apple’s iOS is accounting for almost one in every twenty web pages viewed in the UK, and one in fifty worldwide. NetMarketShare tracks web traffic by browsers in real-time and Apple’s share of the market on iPads and iPhones now exceeds 2.06% of all browsing on the web worldwide…
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News
Apple’s App Store hits 10 BILLION downloads and 350K apps are now on the app store
Just a few days after kicking off its online counter, Apple’s app store has officially hit the 10 billion mark. Yes, only last week Apple launched it’s count down to 10 Billion downloads and now they’ve done it, the counter started off at around 9,900 million downloads and in less than a week they did…
News
GSMA nominees for 2011’s Annual Global Mobile Awards
The GSMA has announced the nominees for the 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards and it’s a good mix of the usual suspects, the blatantly obvious and some real gems. The hotly contested device and manufacturer awards are probably an easy win for Apple. In the best device the iPhone 4 is up against the HTC…
News
iPad and iPhones now represent over 56 percent of Apple revenues
Apple sold over 16 million iPhones and 7 million iPads in the last quarter, and hit record revenues again, with the combined devices producing over $15 billion in revenue. Apple announced their first results in 2011 for the quarter ended 25 December 2010 and it looks like they had a great Christmas with bumper revenues…
News, Video
Is this what the iPad 2 will look like?
Mobile accessories business GearZap.com have what they think is the first video of the new iPad 2. The video was brought back by their product specialists from CES 2011 in Vegas. GearZap claim the video is of a dummy iPad 2 which GearZap believe was given to a Chinese supplier to help build iPad accessories…
News
Android number 2 smartphone in US
comScore figures for the three month average period ending November 2010 shows a 6.4% increase for Android putting it firmly in second place ahead of the iPhone, and 7.5% behind RIM in the US smartphone market, which itself has seen a phenomenal growth of 10% in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share 61.5 million…
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More iPad 2 Feb 2011 rumours
We’re just 10 days into 2011 and the iPad 2 rumour mill is still going strong, so not to be outdone, we thought we would add our two pennies worth. Before Christmas we posted a story (Apple to ship ipad 2 for Feb 2011) from Digitimes saying that the iPad manufacturer Foxconn was ramping up…
News
The rise of the two tablet household
An old acquaintance of ours once said “you know when you’re rich because you start to buy art.” Well that was a long time ago and the modern equivalent would be that you know when you’re too rich because you have more than one tablet, and just to prove our point a new survey from…
Apps, iPhone, News
Set a Guinness world record on your iPad
The Guinness book of World records has launched an updated iPad app and uniquely it allows you to set a world record from your iPad. The iPad-only app launched today allows users to attempt and set real Guinness World Records straight from their iPad. Three new record challenges have been designed specifically for the iPad…
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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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Apple to allow app sharing
A new Apple patent, which in theory will allow iPad, iPhone, and Mac users to share apps, has been unearthed. The new patent, discovered by web site Patently Apple, will allow iPhone, iPad and possible Mac app users on the new Mac app store to share apps with their friends. According to the Patently Apple…
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Apple to ship iPad 2 for Feb 2011?
The Digitimes has a story (Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by the end of February 2011) saying that Foxconn the manufacturer of Apple’s iPad have been given 100 days to produce and ship the first iPad 2 devices, so anyone thinking of getting a cheap subsidised iPad and who want to be cutting edge should…
News, Products
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 grabs majority of US mobile search revenue
Google will end 2010 with a 59% share of the $877 million US mobile advertising market, according to a new report from IDC. The US mobile-ad market, including search and display ads, has more than doubled since last year, when it reached $368 million in sales. IDC attributes the growth to companies devoting larger slices…
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Where to get the cheapest iPad in the UK
Subsidised iPads are here, and we have to admit we got it wrong, we predicted that they wouldn’t be on sale until after Christmas, yet here we are a week or so later eating humble pie, yes, they’re on sale before Christmas, how mad is that? However to help you choose the best deal we’ve…
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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…
News
The iPad may not be the great saviour of newspapers
Digital devices like the Kindle and the iPad have media companies quivering with excitement – but will people really use them to read newspapers and magazines?
Analysis, News
Subsidised iPads for Christmas? Probably not
It now seems like everyone is in the race to get a subsidised iPad out before Christmas, or are they? The releases on the subsidised iPads all point to subsidised iPads in the New Year, not pre-Christmas. In the running and in “negotiations” with Apple about delivering a subsidised iPad with a contract data plan…
Analysis, News
Tablets may not hit Q4 targets
Apple’s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated according to an interview with Bloomberg by US analyst Ashok Kumar of Rodman & Renshaw. Kumar expects that the current belt-tightening to have a real effect on tablet sales, as consumers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones…