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…
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GSMA nominees for 2011’s Annual Global Mobile Awards
The GSMA has announced the nominees for the 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards and it’s a good mix of the usual suspects, the blatantly obvious and some real gems. The hotly contested device and manufacturer awards are probably an easy win for Apple. In the best device the iPhone 4 is up against the HTC…
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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…
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Microsoft launches OneNote app for iPhone
Microsoft has taken the plunge and launched an Office app on the iPhone. Microsft has a few apps on the iPhone already, in the UK there’s Tag Reader and Windows Live Messenger and in the US they’re joined by Bing and WonderWall (no it’s not a homage to Oasis), but considering the lack of a…
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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…
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The new CDMA iPhone in the hotspot
The rumours were true there is to be a new iPhone released on to the market, but rather than a next generation iPhone it’s going to be an iPhone that will work with the CDMA wireless network and you’ll be able to create a wireless hotspot with it, which should make iPad owning iPhone users…
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Android number 2 smartphone in US
comScore figures for the three month average period ending November 2010 shows a 6.4% increase for Android putting it firmly in second place ahead of the iPhone, and 7.5% behind RIM in the US smartphone market, which itself has seen a phenomenal growth of 10% in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share 61.5 million…
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Starmount launch in-store m-commerce solution
US commerce software developers Starmount have turned m-commerce on its head and have introduced an in-store mobile selling assistant, Engage, that works on iPhones and iPads and is intended for use by shop staff rather than customers. “With the advent of the smartphone as a personal shopping device, retailers are now faced with customers that are,…
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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 –…
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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, Reviews
WorldCard Mobile – business card reader & business card scanner – Review
We’ve had a long relationship with business card readers here at Business Mobile, as journalists we get a lot of business cards, and we’d love to be able to liberate the data from them, but unfortunately it never happens, instead they just sit in boxes on our desks, and occasionally we have a rummage through,…
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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…
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iPad and Android top trends on Twitter for 2010
Micro-blogging giant Twitter has released its list of the top trending topics on the platform for the year with Apple’s iPad and Google’s Android fighting it out for top ten placings. According to The Twitter blog , the Gulf oil spill, FIFA World Cup and the movie Inception were the top three overall trends for…
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Android users do it more than iPhone users
Android users download more than iPhone users according to a new study issued by network management software solutions provider Arieso Arieso’s figures show that new smartphones users download up to 40% more data and upload more than 120% more data compared to Apple’s iPhone 3Gs. Using the iPhone 3GS as a benchmark, Arieso reports that…
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Now we can all be Kindle publishers
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 a…
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Mobile ad platform Flurry gets a cash injection
There’s money in those mobile ad hills! Just a day after new ad platform MoPub received seed funding, smartphone application ads and analytics platform Flurry, gets $15 million in Series C round financing. The round was led by US Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures and included existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest, First Round Capital and Union…
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DigiPos launches Mcommerce app platform
Solutions provider for retailers, DigiPoS, has launched its MobileShopper mcommerce ecosystem, and claims it’s the first off-the-shelf package to combine, an app, mcommerece, mobile coupons and self-scanning technologies and more, in one solution. The MobileShopper iPhone app combines online shopping with the in-store experience, and is aimed at propelling retailers into the future; with the…
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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…
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Smartphones now used by 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers
comScore’s quarterly mobile figures for the three months to October 2010 reveal that nearly 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers are on smartphones, and Android continues to grow with a substantial 6.5% growth rate in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older who use mobile devices,…