Tag: IOS

Google launches AdMob toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Google have launched an AdMob beta SDK for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) so Windows app developers can get access to revenue and advertisers can exploit the new OS. The new Beta WP7 developers allows developers to integrate advertising into their applications, control where the ads appear, and what types of ads are shown in their…

Android app downloads exceeded 1.9 billion in 2010

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 iTunes…

Android the best selling smartphone handset in the US

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 it…

Android apps to outpace iOS by mid-2012

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 the…

Apple’s iOS accounts for 5% of all browsing in the UK

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…

Android ad requests to Millennial Media grew by 3130% in 2010

Android ad requests to the Millennial Media ad platform grew by 3130% in 2010. 2010 was a bumper year for Android according to Millennial – who themselves did very well in 2010 they’re now third largest mobile ad network with 15.4% of the market – not only did they grow by 3130% over the year…

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…

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…

Android now powers 25 percent of all smartphones

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…

Smartphones account for one in five phones shipped

New figures show that the smartphones are now accounting for one in every five phones shipped, that’s up from one in ten this time last year. The smartphone markets are continuing to forge ahead at an extraordinary pace. According to ABI Research, smartphones made up 19% of all handsets shipped in the second quarter; that…

Taking the app to the Mac

How strange that on the day that Microsoft chose to launch the first Windows Phone 7 product Apple have decided to announce that, they’re about to take their app store to the Mac. Do you think the two are possibly connected? At an Apple product launch for the new MacBook Air, Apple made the announcement…

Android stengthens it’s position in the US smartphone market

Android now has first place in the US smartphone market, with both Apple and RIM fighting hard for second place. According to August data from Nielsen Company, Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a…

Apple iOS 4.2 beta released to developers

The beta version of Apple’s iOS 4.2 has been released to developers At the last Apple press conference, Steve Jobs said that iPhone iOS 4.2 would arrive in November, but it seems quite a long lead time from Beta to final version so we suspect that it might be launched a little earlier. The focus…

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…

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…

Apple hits 100 million iOS devices

Apple’s figures for Q3 2010 (everything up to June 26 two days after the new iPhone 4 went on sale) show a dip in quarterly iPhone sales on Q2 but it’s a significant increase on Q3 sales for 2009. And despite Antenna-gate, Apple are bullish on their prospects for Q4 and are promising more new…

Android catching up on iPhone lead

Mobile data analysts Quantcast have released their monthly figures for vendor and operating systems and once again Apple is on top of the vendors, but when it comes to operating systems Google’s Android is starting to fight back. Quantcast’s May figures for operating systems show Apple’s IOS  at 72.6% with RIM at 10% and Android…

Getjar hits a billion downloaded apps

Less than 24 hours after Apple announced that their 100 million iPhone and iPod Touch “IOS” devices had collectively downloaded 5 billion apps, and created $1 billion dollars of revenue, app store GetJar announces their own set of records. GetJar (www.getjar.com), is now calling itself the world’s second largest app store, and has announced that…