Music consumed on mobile handsets will generate $5.5 billion annually in 2015, a rise of $3.1 billion from 2010 The music recording business can rest easier if Juniper Research’s new report is to be believed, we say easier as the $5.5 billion is a drop in the ocean, compared to the money the industry has…
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Martin Sorrell “apps still only touching the tip of the iceberg”
Businesses need to embrace mobile to succeed as the use of applications continues to boom, according to Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP. In a speech at Mobile World Congress 2011 Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of advertising giant WPP, noted that the average Apple user has 60 applications across devices such as the iPhone, iPad…
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Apple finally launches subscriptions on the App Store
Apple has launched its long awaited content subscription service on iTunes. The newly launched iTunes subscription service is available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the same App Store billing system that has been…
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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…
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iPhone gets some glasses
Google’s iPhone and iPad mobile search app now comes with Google Glasses added. The image search technology will allow iPhone users to point their phone at an object and Google will do the search. The new feature – present in the Android app – uses the new technology to search for images taken from the…
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iTunes iPad UK store now live
There’s a week to go to the official launch and the UK iPad site on iTunes has gone live. There’s some UK content in there but the pricing is in US dollars and cents, and the majority of the content is still US. In a report by web site ElectricPig they found a different look…