The folks at Flurry and comScore have announced a collaboration that will no doubt enhance mobile app audience measurement. Flurry, being a leader in mobile app analytics, and comScore, with their experience measuring the ‘digital world’ no doubt have the tools and resources to make this partnership kick some serious butt. The new joint effort…
Video: Japanese demo a new input mechanism that involves waving your fingers in front of a screen
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University developed a new input method they’re calling “vision-based Input Interface”. Using a forward facing camera, something that many smartphones in Europe and Asia have, even though it’s debatable whether or not video calling took off, all five fingers are recognized and can be used…
Vlingo Lists Top 10 Mobile Voice Searches for 2009
The folks at Vlingo, creators of a handy voice search and service app have released their top 10 voice-powered mobile web searches of 2009. The data was gathered via the millions of Vlingo-powered mobile web searches over the past year. The Top 10 Mobile Voice Searches for 2009: YouTube Facebook MySpace Weather Movie Times Twitter…
Mplayit shows top shared apps across smartphone platforms
Mplayit, the service which allows users to discover mobile apps from their Facebook friends, has unveiled a list of 10 shared apps. Actually, that’s “lists” (plural) as we have a total of 4 lists to show you. Here they are: Top 10 shared apps for iPhone Finger Physics iFarm by Play Mesh Puzzle Paint 3D…
Nielsen ranks top phones, sites and brands in the U.S. for 2009
There’s an interesting post on Nielsen’s blog, showing which phones, sites and brands U.S. mobile users prefer. And the big winners are… (drums please)… Google (along with YouTube), Apple and Yahoo. Here are tables to prove the claim.
Distimo partners with Skyhook Wireless for location-based apps report; Launches appstores.info
Distimo and Skyhook Wireless have teamed up for a new report to show how location-based apps perform across mobile application stores. Without further ado, here are the highlights for November: Apple’s AppStore has the largest proportion of paid location-based applications (57%) with Blackberry second (49%) and Google’s Android Market third (21%). The average prices of…
Pew Research: Americans view cell phones, email and the internet as the best thing about the 00s
Pew Research conducted a survey on 1504 Americans earlier this month, asking them what they thought about the current decade that is coming to a close, previous decades, and their expectations of the 2010s. Most viewed the 90s and the 80s as the best decades America has ever experienced, and the 00s as the worst.…
ABI Research: Mobile device shipments to nearly double before 2015
According to the latest data from ABI Research, 2009 will see a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices shipped — including handsets, MIDs, netbooks, 3G modems and other mobile consumer electronics products. Shipments of these devices will have nearly doubled in 2014 to a total of 2.25 billion. Industry analyst Michael Morgan said: “Handset sales…
iPhone wins US popularity contest in 2009!
As the 2009 calendar year draws to a close, we look back at a year that was defined by smartphones and the iPhone’s arch nemesis, the Android OS. But, that doesn’t mean the iPhone has dropped of Americans’ radars. In fact, a new study from Nielson crowns the iPhone as the most popular mobile phone…
Opera: State of the Mobile Web November 2009: 41.7 million users viewed 18.8 billion pages
Opera, the browser vendor based in Norway, has released their latest “State of the Mobile Web” report, based on Opera Mini usage. The top 10 countries using Opera Mini are: Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland. In November 2009 Opera Mini had 41.7 million users who viewed…