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A report from advertising and analytics company Chitika that it published today bares sad news for Google and Microsoft. Chitika in the past has released statistics on web traffic for various devices. Now, after closely monitoring Google’s Nexus tablets and the new Microsoft Surface, it has some new data to share: the Nexus tablets and…
Bitter rivals Apple and Samsung are driving holiday sales, according to the latest IDC report. Both companies are the big winners in the quarterly Worldwide Connected Smart Device report that IDC released today. In the report, the rivals scored big when it came to PCs, smartphones, and tablets, as those numbers grew to 27.1 percent…
Juniper Research revised its forecasts for the global NFC market, significantly scaling back growth estimates for the North American and Western European markets, blaming the lack of NFC support in iPhone 5 for this. The new forecast says that by 2017, the proportion of NFC-enabled smartphones will be only marginally below previous estimates, but the…
Latest Distimo Report looks at the first month in business for the Windows Store and compares it to other app stores. As you probably already know, Microsoft launched its store to allow users to easily download and update software on the system. This is already common practice on all mobile phones, with one main difference:…
By the end of this year, revenues accumulated by the global mobile application market will pass the $30 billion milestone with that figure including money made from pay-per-downloads, in-app purchases, subscriptions and in-app advertisements. According to new Market Data from ABI Research, this is nearly double the amount that had been reached by end-2011. The…
Gene Munster of the Piper Jaffray investment firm, known for snooping around to gather data about Apple, did exactly that this Black Friday when he sent his team over to the Mall of America in Minneapolis to monitor foot traffic and sales. They spied on the Apple Store for eight hours, but this year they…
In its latest report, ABI Research is predicting that nearly 2 billion NFC-enabled devices will ship in 2017. The lion’s share of NFC enablement will continue to be focused in the handset (smartphone) market, although other consumer electronic (CE) devices will also be included for simple pairing of devices, exchange of data and online authentication…
Lower prices and better selection of smartphones at tier-two carriers like Boost Mobile, MetroPCS and Virgin Mobile are causing a decline in pre-paid smartphone sales from tier-one carriers in the USA. According to the NPD Group, 70% of smartphone buyers who purchased their phones on a prepaid carrier had switched from a tier-one carrier in…
Virgin Mobile Live took a hilarious survey to see what people would do if they got a message during a variety of ill-timed situations. And it seems that sometimes people are just unable to resist peaking at their phones — rather, it’s just a matter of whether they’re hiding a message or snooping for one.…
Just when you thought BlackBerry couldn’t get any more negative press, think again. The Waterloo company is struggling to keep itself in business, and now it seems to have a problem with people being literally allergic to its phones. According to the researchers over at American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, BlackBerries are being produced with two different…