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Up the Digital Staircase to Facebook
Facebook has been on the mobile acquisition trail, again, and this time the target was acquired three-year-old mobile startup Digital Staircase, the developer behind a series of mobile photo and video applications including MovieCam, SmartSplice and StereoCam. Digital Staircase is the latest in a series of mobile startups acquired by Facebook this year. The first…
News
The INQ Facebook phone revealed at last
Web site Engadget has released a picture of the long awaited INQ Facebook phone and they should be in the shops for April. The mobiles – there are two of them – are apparently the first mobiles to use the Facebook Social Graph API, which allows you to view Facebook content on the mobiles’ homescreen.…
News
Multitasking mobile and TV
Years ago there was anecdotal evidence to say that most mobile web browsing was done between 6-9pm and via wifi, as users flicked through the web while watching TV. And if you look at Twitter feeds for #xfactor #eastenders #corrie when the programmes are on, you’ll soon see evidence of mobile users twittering and watching.…
News
Mobile data bandwidth usage increases by 68%
A report by Allot MobileTrends shows a 68% growth in global mobile data bandwidth usage in first half (H1), 2010, with Twitter bandwidth jumping by 310%, Facebook by 200%, and YouTube by 123%. Allot Communications’s latest MobileTrends Report shows a significant growth for mobile data bandwidth in H1 of 2010. With video streaming applications continuing…
News
Zuckerberg: Facebook’s mobile strategy is breadth not depth. Got that?
Co-founder of social network with more than 500 million users speaks about mobile phone plans
News
INQ building a phone for Facebook?
Politicians have a great way of lying, it’s where they interpret a question absolutely truthfully, but if you’d asked them a slightly differently phrased question they would have have to have fessed up. Eg Did you sleep with a call girl? No because technically although we were in bed together all night neither of us…
News
China is the new app market
App developers should start leaning Chinese if a new study from Canalys is right. The Canalys Mobile Application Analysis services suite study shows that 51% of Chinese end users downloaded applications or games on their mobile phones – 29% more than their Western European counterparts. A similar Canalys survey carried out in France, Germany and…
News
Facebook is the king of apps
Nielsen has launched the first update to its Nielsen App Playbook study, and to celebrate they’re sharing some of the data for free. The most recent version of the study has just been released and it is based on an August 2010 survey of more than 4,000 US mobile subscribers who had reported downloading a…
Analysis
Facebook to deliver a mobile phone?
Reports over the weekend from sites like TechCrunch were all alight about the possibility of Facebook having their own phone. Facebook have of course denied it, but what if it were true? What would happen if Facebook had their own mobile? Well for a start it would make perfect economic sense. Many of the sites…
News
Facebook Places checks in to UK
Facebook Places, the location-sharing service launched in the US last month is now available in the UK
News
Facebook updates iPhone SDK and announces 150 million mobile users
In an official Facebook blog post by Facebook engineer Yujuan Bao announcing new updates to the Facebook iOS Software Development Kit (SDK), Bao accidentally announced that Facebook now have 150 million regular mobile users. That’s up from the 100 million users they announced in February this year, and it’s a staggering 30% of their total…
Analysis, News
30% of Facebook’s 500m users access via mobile
Thirty percent of Facebook users (150 million) are accessing via mobile, a growth of 50% in just three months. Facebook has hit the 500 million user mark, and it’s done it on the back of mobile. Figures from Facebook show that 150 million of the 500 million subscribers now access Facebook via a mobile, up…
News
Facebook goes free on mobile
Facebook has launched a free service 0.facebook.com designed for the third-world – and is only available to certain countries see list at the bottom – which will allow users to get access to Facebook for free. Facebook anytime, anywhere 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but…
News
Data traffic surpasses voice and it’s Facebooks fault
At last it’s happened, the internet on mobile is bigger than the voice on mobile. According to Ericsson mobile data surpassed voice on a global basis during December of 2009. Ericsson’s findings show that data traffic globally grew 280% during each of the last two years, and is forecast to double annually over the next…