BlackBerry OS overtook Apple’s iOS for the first time in the UK and the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that for the first time in the UK the BlackBerry OS at 43.45% overtook Apple’s iOS which recorded…
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Homebase sees 600% increase in sales from mobiles
Homebase has revealed that online sales from mobiles have increased over 600%* in the last year, and they are making mobile a key part of their multi-channel strategy. To help bolster those figures even more, Homebase have launched a free “on the go” shopping app. The Apple iOS Homebase app www.homebase.co.uk/app includes over 30,000 browsable…
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Mobile app development to surpass development on all other platforms
According to the 2010 IBM Tech Trends Survey, conducted online by IBM developerWorks, more than half of all IT professionals (55 percent) expect mobile software application development for devices such as iPhone and Android, and even tablet PCs like iPad and PlayBook, will surpass application development on all other traditional computing platforms by 2015. Programmers…
Analysis, News
Tablets may not hit Q4 targets
Apple’s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated according to an interview with Bloomberg by US analyst Ashok Kumar of Rodman & Renshaw. Kumar expects that the current belt-tightening to have a real effect on tablet sales, as consumers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones…
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Sofa and bed surfing on the rise
Mobile advertising marketplace Adfonic have been digging into their consumer and click-through stats, and have found a few interesting insights – particularly if you’re one of those businesses who take no account of the rise of smartphones like the iPhone and iPad. The midnight hour Adfonics hourly click patterns show that smartphone traffic starts to…
Features
iPad and iPhone best practice from Condé Nast
US publisher Condé Nast, which was the first magazine publisher to offer digital magazines (GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired and Glamour) on the iPhone and iPad, and released some key insights back in October, and we’re a bit late we know, but the advice is timeless so we’re happy to repeat it here. The insights are…
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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…
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iPad app market now 14% of total Apple app store market
Distimo’s regular US monthly app report is out for the month of October and it shows that Apple app developers appear to be prone to cheating on their old-faithful iPhone with the new high-class rich thing in town the iPad. Distimo found that the proportion of iPad-only applications outgrew the proportion of universal applications during…
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Amazon announces 70% royalty rates to publishers
Amazon will start paying publishers 70% revenue rates when they sell magazines and newspapers on its Kindle electronic reader. Last month we reported on Amazon announcing they were raising their Kindle loyalty rate to UK authors and publishers for ebooks sold via Amazon’s self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform. This month Amazon have gone one step…
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Gartner to CEOs: Seize the iPad opportunity now
Embrace the iPad or suffer the consequences Gartner tells businesses. Analysts Gartner have told businesses in the report ‘CEO Advisory: Seize the iPad Opportunity Now’ that they should ignore tablet computing at their peril, and that technologists in the business and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) should open up their networks to tablets and smartphone users.…
Apps, iPhone
Gino D’Acampo Eating Italian app on iPhone and iPad
Gino D’Acampo, Italian chef and TV personality, has launched Eating Italian an app available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Created in collaboration with digital licensing company dot.Talent – they work with celebrity talent to acquire rights, create content, and publish in formats across Mobile, Web and Social Media – and launched to coincide with…
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Google AdSense now comes with added app ad slots
Google have integrated AdMob and AdSense and it’s good news all round, as both advertisers looking for new ad slots and app builders looking for extra revenue should be catered for from the off. It’s six months since Google finally acquired mobile advertising platform AdMob, and Google have celebrated the day by announcing that it’s…
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One million people in UK have made payment by mobile
According to new figures from PayPal released today over one million Britons have now used PayPal to make a payment or send money on their mobile phones. In Britain, PayPal saw month on month mobile transactions grow by 20% in July and August this year. PayPal UK customers already make an average of almost five…
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31 percent of mobile usage is via wifi
David Harper CEO of PercentMobile has shared some mobile traffic figures with the people on Mobile Monday and we thought they were so good we’d share them with you. The PercentMobile figures come from analysis of the last 6 months aggregate UK mobile Web Usage from a sample of over 2.5 million UK uniques, over…
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Things to avoid when creating a mobile strategy
Mobile platform provider Kony Solutions has published what they describe as the five common errors companies should avoid when developing a mobile strategy. Here are Kony Solutions top five “don’ts” to consider when developing your mobile strategy: Companies are focusing more than ever on their long-term mobile strategy. From identifying the mobile needs of their…
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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…
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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…
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91% growth in iPhone sales
For months the media have been saying that the antennagate affair would have a serious affect on iPhone sales, and the results from Apple’s latest quarter revenue results, show it has, but not in the way everyone thought. Apple reported it’s highest ever quarterly revenue and earnings, and iPhone sales have gone through the roof,…
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Argos iPhone app hits 800k downloads
The high-street retailer Argos is in rude health on the mobile front. James Tarbuck Argos’s Multi-Channel Programme and Operations Manager revealed a few interesting facts at the Internet retailing 2010 conference yesterday. The Argos iPhone app is doing very well. Since it’s launch on May 22 the app has been downloaded over 800,000 times –…
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Debenhams launch an iPhone app
Debenhams has taken the plunge and has launched an iPhone app, and it works instore and out. The new Debenhams mobile app designed by No Need for Mirrors is designed as an app that works both in-store and out. The app allows you to buy and choose items to buy, but it also includes a…