Top 10 highlights of 2011 and predictions for 2012 2011 has been an exciting time for the mobile industry seeing many changes take place, some of which were on the cards and others totally unexpected. With consumers increasingly using their mobile devices for more than just calling and texting, internet usage and app downloads soared [...]
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Despatching my 7 year old son to bed recently as an episode of Law and Order began on the TV, he turned and asked, “Are you watching one of those murdering programs?” To his mind, the nuances that distinguish highly regarded programs like The Wire, Law and Order, CSI, The Shield etc are entirely lost. [...]
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It’s the “simplicity of sharing” There’s a storm brewing over how mobile phone users spend their time on-line. In recent days an increasingly public argument has developed – claim and counter-claim – on how you measure the consumer appeal of the mobile web versus an app. The storm began just over a week ago with [...]
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A discussion workshop at this exclusive exec camp for the mobile industry focused on where the value of the mobile web truly lies. Panelists (Microsoft, Zynga, Facebook etc) were naturally optimistic about the benefits to users and to the industry on the kinds of insights that the mobile internet provides. Above all, one observation was [...]
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This is exactly what the guys at RTL TV in Germany have done, with the creation of their hybrid iPhone application, launched last week. The application, developed by Netbiscuits, is a combination of web site and app that uses the latest HTML5 technologies, as well as the native functions of the device – you can [...]
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…lose some weight and get a better tape measure… Don’t get me wrong, I love apps. They have done much to accelerate the uptake and advancement of smartphones which in turn continually improves mobile web browsing capabilities – hurrah! Apps are starting to shake up the whole industry – they are creating a strong device [...]
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The research firm NPD Group have just announced a new survey that shows smartphone sales in the USA grew by 47% in Q2 and accounted for 28% of all handset sales. That’s a number big enough to make anyone selling to mobile take note – it’s more than a quarter of all your customers. And [...]
Filed under: Mobile analytics, Mobile payment, Mobile web, smartphones, Trends, wifi | Tagged: bango, bango identifier, Blackberry, handsets, iPhone, mobile payments, mobile phones, Mobile web, NDP Group, research in motion, RIM, smartphones, wifi | 2 Comments »
It’s always great to get your hands on free mobile web industry stats, isn’t it? So I was pleased to find a new monthly report compiled by Millennial Media with a whole range of mobile advertising data. It’s the first report I’ve seen of its kind and unlike the Admob stats, it seems more representative [...]
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Like many, we eagerly awaited the new Nokia Ovi store to see what was available and how easy it was to buy paid-for apps. The store did seem to be packed with free apps, mostly in the entertainment genre which is not surprising given Nokia’s penetration of the mass market. Business Week commented this week [...]
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