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Millennial Media Q1 Mobile Mix Report: Table usage growing rapidly!
Millennial Media released a special Q1 edition of its Mobile Mix report, which not only includes data on the top mobile devices, manufacturers and operating systems, but also a new section on global tablet trends. From here we learn that the top 3 tablets used on Millennial Media’s network are Apple’s iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which were also ranked in the top 20 amongst all mobile devices. Some other findings include: Apple remained the leading manufacturer on Millennial Media and the iPhone was the leading individual … Read more
Dusan Belic
NPD: Children in the U.S. are adopting mobile apps
Children in the U.S. of A have access to an average of 12 apps on mobile devices, the majority of which (88%) were downloaded for free. According to the research firm NPD Group, children use smartphones, tablets and smart media players like iPod Touch five days of the week, with the average session lasting just under one hour. As expected, games are the single most popular app category among children, accounting for an average of 6.5 apps on a device. This is followed by listening to or downloading music, and … Read more
Dusan Belic
Sexting and the College Student [Infographic]
As you can imagine, sexting is no big deal for most college students. In fact, as many as four out of five engage in sexting, even though it can lead to more than just embarrassment, especially if a minor is involved. According to one survey, 56% of students admitted to receiving sexually suggestive images and 78% of students admitted to receiving sexually suggestive messages. So what can students and the society do about it? I’m not sure, but this could be a potential problem since it’s so widely spread… The … Read more
Dusan Belic
New iPad usage already exceeds original iPad
After two months on the market, usage for the new third-generation iPad has already surpassed usage on the original first-generation iPad released in April 2010, according to a report. Analyzing data from iOS apps it has access to, Localytics has been able to determine first-generation iPad, iPad 2 and third-generation iPad usage and compare them over different timeframes. During the launch week of the most recent iPad model in which Apple sold three million tablets in that single weekend, the new iPad was hastily able to snatch up 14 percent … Read more
George Tinari
eDigitalResearch: mCommerce quadruples in just 2 years
According to the latest research from eDigitalResearch and Portaltech Reply, 64% of smartphone owners are now using their mobile devices to shop online, a number that has quadrupled since June 2010. Moreover, an impressive 84% of smartphone owners have used their devices to browse websites, with 33% doing so on a daily basis, whilst 77% are using their smartphones to research products. The results also suggest that the growth of mobile shopping shows no signs of slowing down with almost half (44%) of the respondents saying they would use their … Read more
Dusan Belic
Juniper Research: Social gambling to push mobile wagers to $100bn annually by 2017
Juniper Research is looking at the mobile gambling prospects in its latest report. From there we learn that the surge in social gambling activity, along with the introduction of intrastate casino and lottery services in the US, will help push global annual wager via mobile handsets and tablets to $100 billion by 2017, up from just under $20 billion last year. The report also looks at the dramatic increase in wager that had occurred in UK-facing sportsbooks over the past year, with several services already seeing around 20% of online … Read more
Dusan Belic
ABI Research: Think phablets like the Galaxy Note are a fad? Think again!
The bean counters at ABI Research have made a bold prediction. They say that more than 208 million “phablets” will be sold in 2015. What’s a phablet? According to them it’s a smarpthone with a screen that measures between 4.6 inches and 5.5 inches diagonal. Now just to be clear, that’s not the definition we use here are IntoMobile Headquarters. We would never classify the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (4.65 inches), the HTC One X (4.7 inches), or the Samsung Galaxy S III (4.8 inches) as phablets. The Samsung Galaxy Note … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Study: HTML5 performs 8x slower on smartphones than desktop
In March, Spaceport.io released part one of its study of HTML5 performance on iOS and Android and concluded that iOS smokes the competition in this regard. Today, it released part two, which compares HTML5 performance on mobile devices to the desktop web. Spaceport.io found that on average, the very best smartphones run HTML5 content 8x slower than a laptop computer. The average comes from what Spaceport.io has found to be the best iOS phone and the best Android phone for HTML5: the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S II. … Read more
George Tinari
Juniper Research: Billing error and fraud could cost operators almost $300 billion annually by 2016
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking to mobile operators and the risk they’re facing from billing errors and fraud. According to the research company, carriers face losing nearly one-quarter of revenues — nearly $300 billion — by 2016. However, this could be mitigated through the implementation of revenue assurance and fraud management solutions. The “problem” occurs because of the increased level of billable events, which made operator-billed revenues skyrocket to more than $900 billion last year. Then again, this high figure also brought an upsurge in leakage across … Read more
Dusan Belic
Strategy Analytics: LTE connections to hit 90 million this year, 1 billion by 2017
Someone needs to invent an equivalent to Moore’s law for the rise of mobile technology connections. So far I haven’t noticed a pattern, but I’m sure these things don’t grow just like that… or they do? Anyhow, it took 12 years for GSM wireless technology to reach one billion connections, and WCDMA took 11 years. LTE, on the other hand, will cross the same road in just 7 years, according to the latest report from Strategy Analytics. The report also notes that this year will end with more than 90 … Read more
Dusan Belic
ABI Research: 3% of users account for 20% of all money spent on mobile apps
In its new research, ABI looks at spending on mobile apps among US consumers. According to their results, about two-thirds of app users have spent money on an application on at least one occasion. Among these paying users, the mean spend was $14 per month, though there are some striking findings. ABI’s senior analyst Aapo Markkanen says that the median amount among the consumers who spend money on apps is about $7.50 per month, reflecting the disproportionate role of big spenders as a revenue source. The highest-spending 3% of all … Read more