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Android to have 45% of smartphone market by 2016
Android is expected to take 45% of the smartphone market by 2016 up from 23% in 2010.
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Google launches AdMob toolkit for Windows Phone 7
Google have launched an AdMob beta SDK for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) so Windows app developers can get access to revenue and advertisers can exploit the new OS. The new Beta WP7 developers allows developers to integrate advertising into their applications, control where the ads appear, and what types of ads are shown in their…
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A quarter of downloaded apps are used only once
Bad news if you’re thinking of producing an app that will make you millions, a new survey has found that most downloaded apps are used only once. Localytics studied the thousands of Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 apps over the last year, and the good news is that users are willing to…
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Two million Windows 7 phones in the channel
Microsoft’s senior product manager Greg Sullivan said in an interview with Bloomberg that it sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices to carriers and retail partners last quarter. The weasel words here are “to carriers and retail partners” this is not the number sold, there could be 1.9 million boxes sat around unsold in…
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Windows Phone 7 updates due and marketplace hits 5,500 apps
Microsoft looks to be starting the year with an update to its Windows Phone 7 system and to the app market, it’s also announced that the Windows Phone 7 marketplace is adding 100 new apps a day. Plans to enhance Windows Phone 7 were confirmed by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer at the Microsoft keynote…
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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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Dell finally set to launch the Venue Pro
Dell has finally put the Venue Pro on pre-order in the US, and it could be the catalyst that Microsoft are looking for to kick off sales of Windows Phone 7 devices. The figures we published earlier today from MobilesPlease for Windows Phone 7 phones started us thinking, why aren’t they selling well? What is…
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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…
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Smartphone market to increase by 67% in 2011
Morgan Stanley’s forecasts for 2011 and Q4 2010 show a bumper increase for Android, that should rocket them into the number one position. Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum thinks the smartphone market will grow to 297 million devices next year, up 62% year-over-year, with Android taking a 38% market share with 112 million Android shipments…
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Distimo gives a first hint of Windows Phone 7 user preferences
The October Distimo report gives us a peak at the way users are working with the new WP7 marketplace and although this doesn’t represent a full month’s worth of data – the report covers data on WP7 Marketplace during the period November 1 – 22 2010 in the United States – it does give an…
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Tablet devices to reach 81 million by 2015
The number of annual shipments for tablet devices will reach 81 million by 2015 as an increasing number of consumer electronics players and handset manufacturers enter the market, finds Juniper Research‘s latest report. According to Juniper Research the catalyst for this expanding market is not the iPad but the Android Operating system which is allowing…
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Windows Phone 7 Launch
The Windows Phone 7 Launch We’re here, where are you? Microsoft have chosen an unseasonally hot day to launch Windows Phone 7 (WP7). The room in the ICA is hot an dark and there’s not air con full marks. Especially in a room where the average number of phones per user was heading for double…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Windows Phone 7 rumour mill
Microsoft are still not announcing the dates for the launch of Windows Phone 7, so the internet rumour mill has gone into overdrive. At the moment the betting is on a European launch first – Microsoft leaked this info at least a few months ago – with the date speculated as October 21. Where as…
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All UK operators to support Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has announced that the big five mobile operators and two retailers will offer Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones when the new OS launches later this year, possibly October but nobody is willing to say exactly when. The list of operators includes Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3, along with retailers Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u.…
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Microsoft launch Mobile Ad SDK for WP7
Microsoft Advertising has launched their Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile, which it describes as ” the industry’s first real-time, bidded ad exchange in mobile”. According to Microsoft’s Advertsing Team’s Raj Kapoor on the official Microsoft Advertising Blog, the launch, will allow Windows Phone 7 app developers to…