AdMob is out with their monthly metrics report. From there we learn that people in the U.S. and Western Europe more and more prefer accessing Internet on their mobile phone over WiFi. The American states that generated the most WiFi traffic are California with 18%, New York with 14%, and Texas with 8%. Other highlights…
Juniper Research: Streamed subscriptions and videochat drive mobile adult revenues to $2.2 billion in 2008
According to a new Juniper Research’s report, the global mobile market for adult content grew by around 36% to an estimated $2.2bn in 2008, driven by streamed subscription services and a burgeoning video chat market. The report titled “Mobile Adult: Subscriptions, Downloads, Video Chat & Text-Based Services 2008-2013 (Fifth Edition)” found that the adoption of…
Study: Financial Squeeze Pressuring Mobile Manufacturers to Use Linux
The LiMo foundation welcomed lots of new members today, and according to recent research, it’s due in a large part to economic conditions favouring a license-free operating system. “There are multiple factors driving the growth of the market for Linux in mobile handsets. In the current economy, the need to manage costs has pushed OEMs…
Quickplay Media stats show ongoing consumer interest in Mobile TV and Video
QuickPlay Media has revealed the fings from it’s latest (Q4 08) consumption analysis – aggregating the results from 15 representative services it runs – and simply put, mobile consumers are continuing to show interest in streaming and downloading Mobile TV and video. Video Streams Total live TV and video streams viewed grew 118% from Q3…
Mozilla Concept Phone Mashes OLED Keyboard into BlackBerry 7130
Now here’s a cool idea. Optimus had made a keyboard awhile back that had small OLED screens built into each key, allowing the whole layout to be reprogrammed and re-represented – just a bit of a mindbender. Designer Billy May has applied the same idea to a BlackBerry 7130, giving us a very interesting idea…
Juniper Research: Contraction in migrant workers to impact mobile money transfers by 50% by 2011
According to Juniper Research, the mobile money transfer market will be particularly vulnerable to the effects of the global recession due to job losses in the migrant worker population. Under the worst case scenario the market will reach $73bn by 2011, some 50% less than previously forecast. Report author Howard Wilcox points out that workers…
ABI Research: People think of MIDs as mobile phone replacements
During the November of last year, ABI Research carried out a survey of more than 1000 adult consumers in the United States to identify their attitudes toward netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Some companies have sold MIDs as mobile phone replacements and apparently that marketing worked like a charm, with almost half of respondents…
iPhone scores another goal for Apple with 1% global mobile phone market share
Apple is firing on all cylinders recently. Having just announced that the company has met its self-imposed goal of selling 10 million iPhone and iPhone 3G handsets before the end of the 2008 calendar year, Apple is now the 8th largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. A new report from ABI Research has the…
Holy Smartphones Batman: Smartphone Sales to Reach 300 Million by 2013
According to the folks over at Juniper research, annual sales of smartphone devices will rise by 95% to over 300 million between 2008 and 2013. As smartphones become more and more mainstream, software and applications are no doubt drawing in new users that are adopting smartphones at a much earlier age. Facebook, Twitter, and all…
Warning – WAP Push message can reboot your Sony Ericsson phone
This latest security vulnerability hits along the same lines as the recently fixed Nokia “Curse of Silence” bug that caused S60-based smartphones to stop accepting SMS text messages upon receiving a specifically formatted text message. A new security hole has been found to affect some Sony Ericsson handset that allows some malicious ne’er-do-well to force…