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…
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Froyo use growing fast
Figures from the Google Android Developers website developers.android.com show that Froyo (Android version 2.2) is being downloaded and installed by a healthy number of users. Figures on the site (see below) show that over 28.7% of users accessing the Android Market within the last 14-days are using Froyo. This however does not mean that 28.7%…
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Google instant for mobile coming soon
Google are to release a mobile version of their latest instant search technology by the end of the year. Yesterday we reported about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s intentions for everything to be released on mobile first, and today we have to point out that it’s just not happening. Google’s new Google Instant search facility is…
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Autonomous mobile search is the new future
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt closed this years IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin with some thoughts about search and mobile. It’s a reflection of just how important mobile really is that the head of one of the largest technology businesses in the world takes time to look at mobile and talk about mobile in the…
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Apple will dominate tablet market until 2012
According to research from analysts iSuppli Apple are set to dominate the tablet computing field at least until 2010, and won’t really start to see any competition until at least Q2 of 2011, allowing the company to maintain a dominant share in the tablet market at least through 2012. According to iSuppli’s research the iPad…
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Android registrations top 200,000 a day
Back in the heady days of January when Google launched the Nexus One – remember that? it was a kind of phone with a Google logo on it – Google announced that they were activating 60,000 new Android phones each day? Then in May, Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra announced it was up to…
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Android App Market downloads pass 1 billion
According to the best estimates of web site Androlib the Android market has passed the 1 billion download mark and it’s growing exponentially, and Google announce 160,000 Android activations a day in their 2nd Quarter results. Less than two years after Google opened its Android Market application users have already passed the 1 billion downloads…
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iPhone app download dominance under threat
The dominance of Apple’s iPhone in the mobile app download market will be eroded over the coming years as rivals make inroads. A new report by telecoms analyst Ovum states that mobile application downloads generated by non-operator application stores will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 41% globally over the next…
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Google makes Android app creation simple
Google has launched the Android App Inventor, it’s intended as a quick way of producing Android phone apps for non-technical and non-programmers ie 99.9% of the population, and from what we can see it’s really quite easy to use. The app is aimed at schools but there’s no reason why it can’t be used by…
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AdMob now in the Google fold
Google confirmed on its official blog that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Google’s acquisition of mobile advertising platform AdMob with the Commission vote on closing the investigation standing at a unanimous 5-0. Interestingly, while Google report it as a straight approval, the actual wording from the FTC is not quite so straightforward.…
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Google nix Nexus online
Google have had a slight mid-course correction with the Nexus, and have decided to leave selling mobiles to the big boys in store, and to concentrate on pushing Android via online. Andy Rubin, VP, Engineering at Google in an announcement on his blog on Friday, “Nexus One changes in availability”, described the reasons for Google’s…
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Android selling 65,000 devices a day
More than 65,000 devices running the Google’s Android operating system are shipped every day, according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and Google has plans for the platform to be number ‘one or two’ player in the market. Schmidt, speaking at Google’s annual shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, said the…
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Would you buy a Google Pad?
It seems that Google has decided to get in to the iPad/slate market, and who can blame them? The Nexus wasn’t exactly a huge seller, but according to Google it has made a positive contribution to their sales, which in our book is a success, and the encouraging sales for the iPad makes a move…
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30 billion reasons to say mobile
In a recent post on the Nielsen Wire blog the senior VP for Research and insights, Telecom Practice, Roger Entner takes a very good stab at why Google Apple etc are after the mobile marketing market. The reasons are clear to Entner, it’s the – as yet – hugely untapped revenue that exists in mobile.…
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Android to sell >22 million devices by end 2010
Google Android devices to ship more than 22 million by end of 2010
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Google says mobile ad rates to pass PC rates
We’d so love this to be true. The prediction comes from Google Engineering Vice President Vic Gundotra in a call with some analysts last monday (15th March) and he did not say when he expected the crossover to occur. However if Google think it then it’s probably true. As far as we’re concerned it’s not…