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The GSMA announced the winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile awards in a ceremony hosted by comedian and songwriter Tim Minchin. We don’t even want you to know his bad jokes, but we’ll rather go straight to the point. So the winners of the 2012 Global Mobile Awards are: Best Mobile App for Consumers:…
Orange and Visa announced that Orange Money customers in Africa and the Middle East will soon have access to Visa prepaid account features inside their Orange Money accounts. This update to the service will be introduced in select markets by the end of 2012. By doing so, Orange is connecting existing mobile money subscribers to…
The GSMA released research into the opportunities that mobiles provide to underserved women in emerging markets. Entitled “Portraits: A Glimpse into the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid”, the report shows the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP), which are those living…
I had a chance to speak with Fujitsu’s representatives in Barcelona and they seem pretty bullish on the prospects of selling Fujitsu smartphones and tablets outside of Japan. Let’s face it, Japan used to be a very different market and their phones had little to do with those sold elsewhere, but that’s no longer the…
The Nokia Lumia 900 is almost ready for the prime time in the U.S. with government paid engineers having an opportunity to play with the device before the rest of the nation. They dissected the device, exposing its guts to the general public as you can see from a photo above. If you happen to…
Back in December of last year, on the 29th to be precise, Samsung announced that they just sold 1 million Galaxy Notes. It took them less than two months after launching the product to do that. Two days ago Forbes published a piece that said Samsung Galaxy Note sales have exceeded 2 million units. That’s…
To “celebrate” the leap year and get some media attention along the way, T-Mobile USA is sharing some cool stats to show how the user behavior has changed since the last time February 29 showed on the calendar. Without further ado, here’s what they got: Americans are getting smarter – in 2008, less than 10%…
Evernote keeps making its image annotating app Skitch better and better. They’ve just released version 1.4, introducing several new features, which we’ll briefly explore in the text that follows. First there’s support for Maps, so you can (for instance) easily show directions to anyone. Tap on the Maps icon in Skitch, then select some place…
Even though Nokia has seen better days, there are still millions of users all around the world using phones made by the Finnish company. That was seemingly one of the points they wanted to share while in Barcelona, promptly displaying some key figures across parts of the booth (rather than issuing a press release). Here’s…
Google updated Application Statistics in the Developer Console, showing additional details to developers. There few important changes included, such as: Installation metrics – which show installations measured by unique users, as well as by unique devices. For user installations, you can view active installs, total installs, and daily installs and uninstalls; and for devices –…