BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has posted a surge in quarterly profit and revenue, however things don’t look so good for next quarter revenues as it fails to add as many subscribers as it expected. RIM said it shipped 12.1 million devices to wireless carriers and stores in its fiscal second quarter, up 45%…
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Three get aggressive on data PAYG pricing
Three announced some quite aggressive Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing to add to its All In One product, you can now get 500Mb for £5 per month which must be one the cheapest rates around. Three announced that from yesterday it would be updating it’s PAYG pricing and instead of the normal texts and…
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Vogue slims down for iPad edition
Conde Nast is launching iPad apps for Vogue and Wired
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Condé Nast chief: up to 40% of sales could be on iPad
Nicholas Coleridge reveals publisher will launch paid-for applications for December issues of UK Wired and Vogue
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Apple opens App Store to programs written in Adobe Flash – and more
Flash developers stand to benefit as app review guidelines are also published – but Apple will do well as more apps can be developed for iPhone and iPad
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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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Three to get Samsung Galaxy Tab
Three have announced that they will be one of the first networks to get the Samsung Galaxy tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab (GT-P1000) for those of you who have been on planet Mars – or like us Northumberland – for the last two weeks is Samsung’s Android tablet aimed at attacking the growing Apple iPad…
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Android web consumption rises off the back of Droid devices
More Android users are getting onto the mobile web bandwagon according to the latest traffic stats from Quancast, which show Google’s OS catching up with Apple’s iOS. Apple’s iOS platform is still a way ahead of Android in web browsing terms according to Quancast’s stats, but Android is rapidly gaining ground on its rival. In…
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Viewsonic unveils iPad rivals
Details for two new iPad competitors hit our desk this week, the dual-boot Android/Windows ViewSonic ViewPad 100 and the ViewPad 7. Of the two the ViewPad’s the 100 is aimed firmly at the iPad market, where as the 7 could be a cut-down iPad competitor. The ViewPad 7 is described by ViewSonic as the “world’s…
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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…
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iPad consumer use survey – 43% use it for more than 10 hours per week
According to a poll by copywriters Cooper Murphy Webb, Apple’s iPad is the preferred method of reading newspapers and magazines among consumers already owning the device.Strangely they also found that most users keep the iPad at home. Considering how small and light the iPad is this is a strange finding. Are iPad users scared to…
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Where to buy an iPad
The two months wait is over. Yes it’s official you can now buy an iPad from anywhere you want. DSG International’s (DSGi) two-month monopoly on Apple’s iPad has finally come to an end. From this week you now no longer have to skulk around with the spotty youths running PC World, Dixons Travel airport shops,…
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iPad apps have more in-app purchases than iPhone apps
The latest Distimo Report (July 2010 looking at June 2010) from app store analytics company Distimo looks in detail at app stores and how effective they are – particularly for in-app purchases. In the report Distimo looked at the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi…
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Amazon mini Kindle goes on sale
Amazon has upped the ante and has launched a mini Kindle with a pricing structure to hit the mass-market, and free 3G wireless connectivity. Fed up with being the bridesmaid and never the bride when it comes to mobile headlines, Amazon have launched a reduced-sized Kindle, aimed at attacking the mass market, and the iPhone…
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WebWorks enterprise content publishing solution for iPad and ePUB
If you have huge amounts of content and you need to get it onto the iPad or any e-publishing format then you’re in luck. US software publishers WebWorks have launched a new product, ePublisher 2010 Mobile Plus, that takes content and automatically reformats it for a variety of different mobile formats including the ePUB standard…
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Apple iPad shipments to hit 12.9 million in 2010 and 50 million by 2012
Analysts iSuppli predicts Apple will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, but their figures for 2011 and 2012 are looking stratospheric. Analysts iSuppli have revised their iPad shipment figures quite significantly, instead of their April predictions of shipments of 7.1 million they now predict end of year sales to be nearer 13 million units, but…
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iPhone to launch in 17 new countries this week
Apple will be launching the black version of the iPhone 4 in 17 countries from this Friday 30 July. From Friday the iPhone 4 will be newly available in lots more countries in Europe and Scandinavia including; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland Additionally the iPhone will also…
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Amazon takes £645 million from mobile shoppers
Amazon.com generated revenues of £645 million ($1 billion) from mobile purchases during the last 12 months. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the statistic during the Amazon’s Q2 earnings release, and stressed the importance of mobile phones and tablet computers in the company’s future plans. The news comes just a few days after Amazon revealed that sales…
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iPad captured 6% of the worldwide netbook market
Analysts Canalys released its quarterly worldwide PC market data, and Apple has zoomed into the top five PC vendors, thanks to the iPad. The iPad captured approximately 6% of the portable PC segment in Q2 2010, with over 3 million units shipped during the device’s first few months on the market. Conversely, growth in the…
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Mobile Loose Ends
Mobile Loose Ends – Some stories from the last two weeks that appealed to us and we thought were interesting and why. Shopkick get a kick from VCs The Wall Street Journal are finally realising that mobile is taking off and the reason they’re realising is that the VCs are starting to go into a…