Recent reports clearly show a rapid increase in mobile phones browsing using Wi-Fi – according to recent Bango research over 20% of your customers are now connecting via Wi-Fi (see Bango Wi-Fi stats). Millennial Media also reported 22% Wi-Fi use in the USA as part of their June U.S Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and [...]
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The Apple App Store seems to be on the same track as the Crazy Frog. Although Apple is very secretive, the App Store may be managing to achieve similar sales growth over its first year or so. While Apple’s sales are a tiny part of the overall multi-billion dollar mobile app and content market, since it is restricted to 20 million or so iPhones/iTouches it has captured the imagination of journalists and the technorati. It has re-invigorated interest in app stores among other phone makers and even breathed some life into operator portals.
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App Stores for mobile phones do seem to be flavor of the month, judging by the announcements at Mobile World Congress this month.
Along came Apple and launched a highly successful iPhone App Store and now nearly all the major handset vendors – Nokia, RIM, Google to name a few – have or are jumping on [...]
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App Stores for mobile phones do seem to be flavor of the month, judging by the announcements at Mobile World Congress this week. But what does this mean for developers and content providers who want to get a slice of the revenue pie?
In the “good” old days, your app was sold by Handango or Handmark [...]
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With so many more consumers discovering how to go online through their phones, mobile is attracting significantly more attention from online businesses. Mobile broadband has made a big difference by enabling a wholesale expansion of online activity to consumers through their mobiles.
Wikipedia describes mobile broadband as “various types of wireless high-speed internet access through a [...]
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The US will soon claim first place in the mobile web race with US consumers’ appetite for mobile web surfing expected shortly to overtake current global number one, the UK. That’s according to Bango’s mobile web surfing charts.
So what’s behind this latest move? The UK has punched above it’s weight considering it only has a [...]
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