US Mobile tablet traffic rises when US consumers take a break
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Apps, iPad, iPhone, News
Chrome for iOS gets a social update
Chrome browser for iPad and iPhone gets Twitter, Facebook and Goggle+ update
Analysis, News
100+ million tablets to ship in 2012
ABI Research predict tablet sales will reach more than 100 million in 2012, the figures are based on a very successful first quarter, where 25 million tablets were sold with Apple gaining the lions share of the market. Figures from ABI show the April to June quarter of 2012 set a new record for media…
News
iPad apps outnumber Ovi, BlackBerry and Windows combined
Apple now has over 300,000 iPhone apps in the US, more than twice the nearest competitor according to February’s Distimo figures The latest Distimo report for Feb 2011 looks in depth at the Mac app store and has some interesting things to say about Mac desktop app users versus Apple mobile app users. Distimo reports…
News
US mobile data usage averaging 350 megabytes per month
Analyst Chetan Sharma have compiled a 2010 wireless data review for 2010 and there are some interesting stats from the US market. The latest US Mobile Data Market Update Q4 2010 and 2010 report from analyst Chetan Sharma has a bunker full of stats, the biggest of which is that US mobile subscriptions officially crossed the 100%…
News
iPad 2 to launch March 2
Oh the irony, the rumours yesterday were all of delays for the iPad 2 and today we actually have a day for the launch. Apple have sent out invites for an event on March 2 with a tantalising glimpse of an iPad and the words “come see what 2011 will be the year of.” (see…
News
A quarter of downloaded apps are used only once
Bad news if you’re thinking of producing an app that will make you millions, a new survey has found that most downloaded apps are used only once. Localytics studied the thousands of Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 apps over the last year, and the good news is that users are willing to…
News
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…
News
Mobile developers are switching to tablet apps over Android
Tablets – particularly iPad tablets – are hot property with mobile developers according to the Appcelerator Mobile Developer Report, and the desire to get a iPad app out has put developers off developing for Android. Appcelerator and IDC surveyed 2,235 Appcelerator Titanium developers from January 10-12, 2011 on perceptions surrounding mobile OS priorities, feature priorities,…
Analysis, News
Apple adding mobile payments in iPad and iPhone
The rumours that Apple is to build-in mobile payments into the iPhone 5 are old, but now the rumour is that payments will also be built into the iPad 2 and enable iTunes for m-payments. According to the report in Bloomberg Apple will embed a NFC-based mobile payment services into the next iteration of its…
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
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
iPads and mobiles are changing our reading habits
The ReaditLater site has produced some fascinating research into the way mobile (iPhone and iPads to be precise) is affecting the way we read news and media. We now do most of our reading while we’re sat on the sofa watching TV. The survey looks at the reading trends culled from over 100 million articles…
News
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
2010 maybe the last year that Apple dominates the app market?
Distimo have published their round up of the app market in 2010 and it looks like 2010 maybe the last year that Apple dominates the app market statistics, and this year may see a turn from paid apps as standard to subscription-based apps as the norm. The Apple App Store is – as expected –…
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…
News
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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The tizi brings live TV to your iPhone/iPad
The equinux tizi brings digital TV (DVB-T/TNT/DTT) directly to the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch via an integrated wi-fi hotspot. Getting live TV on your iPhone and iPad is on many people’s wish list, and now it’s possible, with a handy wi-fi TV transmitter from German manufacturers equinux. The pocket-sized tizi device, costs 149.95 Euros…
News
Who doesn’t sell the iPad? Not Tesco?
Tesco have big full page ads in the papers today, to announce the iPad is now on sale at selected Tesco stores, and it’s also available online from Tesco Direct. However Tesco seem to have underestimated the UK’s desire to buy iPads. Unfortunately it’s no cheaper than the Apple online and offline stores, and the…