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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...
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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...
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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.”...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Amazon have opened up their Kindle books to any platform that supports a web browser from eBooks to iPads, to the latest Google Chrome devices, so now anyone with a website can become a Kindle book publisher. Amazon announced that their “Kindle for the Web” service will expand to enable anyone with access to...
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The Digitimes has a story (Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by the end of February 2011) saying that Foxconn the manufacturer of Apple’s iPad have been given 100 days to produce and ship the first iPad 2 devices, so anyone thinking of getting a cheap subsidised iPad and who want to be cutting edge...
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Subsidised iPads are here, and we have to admit we got it wrong, we predicted that they wouldn’t be on sale until after Christmas, yet here we are a week or so later eating humble pie, yes, they’re on sale before Christmas, how mad is that? However to help you choose the best deal...
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