It was at the MIX10 conference when the Windows Phone team showed, for the first time, the application platform and tools that developers would use to build applications and games for Windows Phone 7. A year later they have some impressive numbers to share: Developers: 1.5 million people have downloaded the Windows Phone Developer Tools,…
Google teaches young schoolgirls in NYC how to develop Android apps
The debate on why there are so few women in the field of science and technology rages on, but Google is being proactive and is teaching young girls in New York City how to develop Android applications. In Google’s New York office, a group of high school girls with little or no coding experience are…
Could the iPhone 5 sell 100 million units?
The Apple iPhone has been a massive success, as this smartphone kicked off the mobile revolution we’re seeing today and the iconic device has sold over 100 million units through its four iterations. At least one company believes that the upcoming iPhone 5 could sell 100 million units on its own. The chart above comes…
Windows Phone to Beat iPhone, BlackBerry Market Share by 2015
IDC recently published their forecast for the worldwide smartphone market, and they foresee 450 million units shipping in 2011 compared to 303 million last year; that translates to 49% growth, which is four times more than the overall mobile market. IDC claims Android will snatch up 45% of the worldwide smartphone market share by 2015,…
Which U.S. Cities Use the Verizon iPhone Most?
Mobclix has rounded up some interesting data to show just how the Verizon iPhone has penetrated the U.S., and who is using the device on the network and why. For the most part, the reasons for switching to the Verizon iPhone shouldn’t surprise anyone: reception/coverage issues, mobile hotspot features and reputation. Verizon is known for…
Juniper Research: 1 in 7 boarding passes to be mobile by 2013
According to Juniper Research’s latest report titled “Mobile Ticketing for Transport Markets,” one in every seven bar coded boarding passes worldwide will be delivered to passengers’ mobile devices within 2 years. Translated into numbers, that’s 480 million mobile boarding passes, a significant rise from last year’s 160 million. The research company has found 30 airlines,…
Nanoparticles, silver ink, and 3D printing: The future of antennas
Grab a device like Nokia’s N8 and try to count the number of antennas there are inside. You’ve got 4 just for GSM/EDGE, 5 for 3G, 1 for Bluetooth, 1 for WiFi, and 1 for the FM radio. That’s a total of 12, and that number is only going to go up as innovations such…
Analysts say that by 2016 you’ll stream all your music [Some of us are already there]
This may sound a bit cliché, but music really is the one thing that brings us all together. Some of us still remember the days of dubbing our favorite tracks to a blank cassette tape and then later lugging around binders full of burned CDs. The invention of the MP3 file changed everything and today…
GetJar: Android to trump iPhone two-to-one
Mobile app store GetJar released data from their commissioned global survey, giving insight into the “preferences and attitudes of mobile phone users.” Unsurprisingly the results suggest we should put our money on Android with almost 40% of respondents saying they will switch to Google’s mobile platform when they purchase their next phone, compared to the…
Revenue from smartphone processors up 77% year on year [Qualcomm takes 41% for themselves]
Those tiny little chips that power our increasingly impressive smartphones are making several folks quite a bit of money. Analysts at Strategy Analytics say that in 2010 alone, revenue from smartphone processors hit $4.52 billion, an increase of 77% compared to last year. Who took the largest share of that pie? Qualcomm with 41%, followed…