AT&T really needs the iPhone, but the iPhone doesn’t need AT&T. That little fact alone is probably enough to give Apple’s Tim Cook reason to look for another iPhone carrier in the US. Add to that this recent survey from PriceGrabber.com and things are looking bad for AT&T. According to the poll, about 10% of…
Study: If you’re a business you’ll probably overspend on wireless service
Not that businesses aren’t already prone to overspending, but a new study from Gartner indicates that 80% of enterprise wireless customers will pay too much for wireless service through 2014. The research shows that costs for mobile enterprise services have grown, but many businesses aren’t managing their expenses. “Our research shows that the majority of…
ChaCha Voice Search on iPhone outperforms voice-enabled search from Google and Yahoo!
Don’t just love David vs Goliath stories, when a little guy beats the big bully? On the similar note, we caught a press release from ChaCha. Apparently, MSearchGroove found that ChaCha’s voice-enabled mobile search “proved superior” to two other options for the iPhone: the Google Mobile App and Yahoo Mobile App. This, of course, shouldn’t…
It finally happened: market share is dead and it has been replaced by value share!
I’m sick and tired of seeing Nokia fanbois flapping their arms in the air, quoting press release statistics about 39% market share, and connecting the next billion people. The only number that a corporation, and stock holders, honestly care about is profit. Whatever market share Sony Ericsson and Motorola have is irrelevant, because they do…
Research: Nielsen Norman Group: Mobile websites today suck about as much as desktop sites did 15 years ago
The Nielsen Norman Group, which is a usability consulting firm started by design-rockstar Donald Norman, Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini in 1998, recently conducted a study to see just how bad mobile websites were. The size of the sample was not given, but the methodology involved was simply asking participants to complete common tasks such…
Analyst: ABI Research: Ultra cheap phones will enjoy 24% annual growth for the next 5 years
Cheap mobile phones, the devices that get sold by the hundreds of millions, are going to sell even more hundreds of millions if what ABI Research just predicted happens to come true. ABI Research thinks that by 2014 a $15 mobile phone will be feasible and that ultra low cost handsets (ULCH) plus low cost…
Webinar on overcoming the hurdles of supplying ‘HD voice’
Now you might be wondering what ‘HD voice’, and that would be a fair question – after all, HD seems to appear in a lot of conversations, when really the term has strict definition. However, I think it’s use is reasonable here. What we have at the link below, is a webinar that was held…
Video: ARhrrrr, a mobile augmented reality zombie shooter
ARhrrrr is a mobile augmented reality game created by students at Georgia Tech that utilizes the camera on the back of a mobile device, in this case an nVidia Tegra, and a special print out that acts as a template to guide the look and feel of a particular level. You pilot a helicopter that…
ABI Research: 170 million mobile subscribers to make domestic person to person payments in 2011
ABI Research has a new study titled “Mobile Banking and Funds Transfer.” From the press release that talks about it, we find out that 170 million million mobile subscribers will make domestic person to person payments in 2011. To put the number in perspective, the research company says that this is nearly three times more…
Juniper Research: Annual mobile application downloads to hit 20 billion by 2014
Juniper Research has new market projections, suggesting that the number of mobile application downloads will approach almost 20 billion per annum by 2014. The reasons are the proliferation of mobile application stores, improvements in storefront interfaces, as well as an increasing number of titles appealing to wider demographics. In the same release, the research company…