The latest figures from analysts Gartner show Android is now at the heart of 25% of all smartphones worldwide, up from 3.5% at this time last year. Additionally Gartner forecasts that media tablets (such as the Apple iPad) will reach 54.8 million units in 2011. Worldwide Sales Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled…
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Gartner to CEOs: Seize the iPad opportunity now
Embrace the iPad or suffer the consequences Gartner tells businesses. Analysts Gartner have told businesses in the report ‘CEO Advisory: Seize the iPad Opportunity Now’ that they should ignore tablet computing at their peril, and that technologists in the business and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) should open up their networks to tablets and smartphone users.…
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Location info from phones to be used to validate mcommerce
By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90% of mobile transactions, according to Gartner. Gartner said that the rapid adoption of smartphones is forcing banks, social networks and other e-commerce providers to implement the kinds of fraud detection capabilities that have become mainstream with fixed-line computing.…
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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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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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Smartphone sales accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales
According to new figures from Gartner, mobile sales and smartphones sales continue to grow in the second quarter of 2010. Gartner’s latest figures show smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5% from the second quarter of 2009, while worldwide mobile sales to end users totaled…
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Mobile email users to top one billion by 2014
Analyst Gartner has predicted that wireless email users will top one billion by 2014, and says the commoditisation of wireless email owing to mobile support from cloud services vendors is accelerating. Gartner predicts that worldwide wireless e-mail users will reach one billion by year-end 2014, up substantially from 80 million in early 2010 as productivity…
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Mobile phone sales grew 17% in first quarter 2010
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17% increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an increase of 48.7% from the first quarter of 2009. With Android phones seeing a 707% growth…