Tag: Microsoft

Android the best selling smartphone handset in the US

comScore’s January US figures from their MobiLens survey shows Android taking the lead among smartphone platforms with 31.2% market share, after two short months in second place. Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older with mobile phone almost 65.8 million (28%) now have a smartphones, that’s up 8% from the preceding three-month period and it…

US smartphone users increased by 60 percent in 2010

comScore figures for December 2010 show a year on year increase of 60% for smartphone usage in the US market, and Android continues its steady growth with a 7.3% rise in the last quarter of 2010 According to comScore figures 63.2 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in December…

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…

Google grabs majority of US mobile search revenue

Google will end 2010 with a 59% share of the $877 million US mobile advertising market, according to a new report from IDC. The US mobile-ad market, including search and display ads, has more than doubled since last year, when it reached $368 million in sales. IDC attributes the growth to companies devoting larger slices…

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,…

Windows Mobile 7 a slow burner

According to figures from online retailer Mobilesplease (www.mobilesplease.co.uk) Windows Mobile 7 devices are not exactly selling like hot cakes, with WP7 devices accounting for just 3% of smartphone sales and a little under 2% of overall sales through Mobilesplease and their affiliates. Nokia will be happy with the figures as Symbian 3 handsets outsold Windows…

Windows Phone 7 – launch day

As the whole world probably knows today is the launch of Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft and there’s a lot of pressure to get this right. Microsoft have a lot riding on Windows Phone 7. They have effectively been pushed out of the Mobile game and they’re desperate to get back in, and it’s something…

Windows Phone 7 developers won’t get sales income until Feb 2011

Microsoft  has published the developer timeline for Windows Phone 7 and it looks about as complete as Delhi’s attempt at the Commonwealth Games. And even more worrying is that Microsoft don’t expect to be able to make a payment for sales of apps until February 2011. On the official Microsoft Windows 7 Phone developer blog…

Ballmer bullish on Windows Phone 7

Microsoft’s head honcho CEO Steve Ballmer has told the Wall Street Journal that he expects big things from Windows Phone 7 (WP7), but he’s not predicting that the smartphone will take over from the PC. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Ballmer explained why they didn’t produce their own WP7 handset, and who…

Microsoft show of the first Windows Phone 7 device

An HTC device known as the ‘Mondrian’ looks set to be one of the first major smartphones based on Microsoft’s long-awaited new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating system. The handset is seen in two Microsoft adverts showcasing WP7, which have appeared online ahead of the platform’s official launch. These adverts – targeted at the US…

Facebook to deliver a mobile phone?

Reports over the weekend from sites like TechCrunch were all alight about the possibility of Facebook having their own phone. Facebook have of course denied it, but what if it were true? What would happen if Facebook had their own mobile? Well for a start it would make perfect economic sense. Many of the sites…

comScore – Android sees significant growth in US

comScore has released data from latest July survey of key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2010. The big change is the increase in the Smartphone market share for Android. It produced a staggering 5% growth for the quarter. Elsewhere not much changed, which is surprising…

Mobile Loose Ends 30/07/10

Mobile Loose Ends 30/07/10 A weekly round up of things we thought were useful but didn’t have time to cover 1) Are your apps secure? Smartphone security business Lookout has launched the App Genome Project the largest study of mobile apps ever. It’s intended to be an ongoing effort to map and study mobile applications…

Microsoft to give developers cash for apps

Microsoft are going to be boosting the number of apps developed for the Windows Phone 7 platform, by paying developers to develop for the platform and compensating developers who don’t make as much as they expect. But will this be enough? When you decide to build an application on a particular platform there are a…

IOS 4.01 now available to developers

Apple has released their pre-release version of  iOS 4.1 to developers and it has the “fix” for the antenna problem.  We still don’t know when it will be released to end-users but it shouldn’t be that long, a few weeks tops. As well as the fix there appear to be a few other tweaks in…

Microsoft announces new additions to Windows Phone 7

Microsoft announced a series of new additions to its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system intended to make the operating system the killer operating system, with a killer app site to match. Microsoft’s new additions to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) promise tighter cloud-based integration between the mobile devices and PCs. New features include Windows…

Keep taking the tablets, all 27 million of them

The tablet/slate market is going to go crazy in the next couple of quarters with a tablet expected from Research In Motion (RIM), slates from Microsoft partners running Windows 7 due at the end of the year, and iPad sales estimated to hit 27 million units in 2011. Yes, we really did say 27 million.…