A new report from Juniper Research titled “Mobile Entertainment Markets: Opportunities and Forecasts 2007-2012 (Second edition)” has found that the combination of greater 3G adoption and a marked increase in rich media, made-for-mobile content will drive mobile entertainment revenues to $47.5 billion by 2010. However, there’s also a caution here. Entertainment service adoption will be…
IDC: Ringback tones will be more popular than ringtones; part of a $40 billion market by 2011
It’s one thing to customize the ringtone that you hear when your friends and family call you. But, it’s an apparently more attractive option to choose what the caller hears when they call you. Ringback tones are either super-cool or super-annoying, depending on your preference. With the success of these ringback tones, championed by Verizon…
RIM wants to secure BlackBerry camera with a lock and key
Research In Motion is all about getting its BlackBerry smartphones distributed for fleet-use in enterprise environments. Unfortunately, that means that corporate users will have to opt for the camera-less BlackBerry 8800 series. It would be a bad day to have corporate secrets walk out the door inside some cameraphone’s flash memory. On the one hand,…
Nielsen Mobile: 58 million U.S. mobile subscribers have seen advertising on their phones
Latest Nielsen Mobile’s bi-annual Mobile Advertising Report suggests that 23% or 58 million of all U.S. mobile subscribers have been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days, with half (51% or 28 million) of all data users who recall seeing mobile advertising responded to a mobile ad in some way. Nielsen…
Juniper Research: Over 2.6 billion mobile tickets set to be delivered by 2011
New Juniper’s research titled “Mobile Ticketing & Coupons: Strategies & Markets 2007-2011” suggests that over 2.6 billion mobile tickets will be delivered to just over 208 million mobile phone users by 2011. Early trials, mainly led by mobile operators, are now migrating into commercial services that are controlled by the ticketing issuers themselves. Benefits for…
Research and Markets: Two trillion SMS this year
People all around the world keep texting like crazy. According to Research and Markets’ latest report, over 2 trillion (2 followed by 12 zeros) messages will be sent worldwide this year, with expected revenue from text messaging to account for around $65-75 billion. However, while the overall mobile messaging traffic volumes will increase, revenues are…
Palm losing to BlackBerry in the enterprise segment
Things have been better for Palm. The company that essentially sparked the smartphone revolution and ushered in a new age of corporate handset fleets is now seeing their market share chipped away from enterprise competitor Research In Motion (RIM) and its line of BlackBerry smartphones. The corporate customer-base is undoubtedly Palm’s most-lucrative niche – the…
Juniper Research: Mobile music adoption passes tipping point with revenues set to reach $17.5bn by 2012
According to a new report by Juniper Research, the total value of the global mobile music market is expected to rise to more than $17.5bn by 2012, driven by rental music services and full-track downloads. Report author Dr Windsor Holden argues that 2007 marked the tipping point as far as mobile music adoption was concerned.…
How safe does your cellphone make you feel?
I came across these research studies that seems to indicate that people feel more secure and safe when they have their mobile phone with them. Apparently, the added sense of security (presumably as a sort of connection to friends and family) that a cellphone provides actually emboldens college students to make riskier decisions – like…
AppTrigger: Most not using mobile apps and services
According to the recent study by telecom application connectivity specialist AppTrigger, despite 74% believing that the mobile services offered have improved – more than half (57%) of UK mobile phone owners use their phone for the same things that they did in 2003. The survey — which queried 500 mobile phone users in the UK…