While manufacturers and carriers are gearing up to offer mobile-music download services, in hopes that wireless subscribers will pay to download music onto their handsets, a new report from M:Metrics shows that most people are sideloading their music onto their mobile phones (tranferring music onto the device via data cable, WiFi, or Bluetooth connection –…
Berg Insight: GPS-enabled handset shipments to reach 560 million units in 2012
According to a new research report by Berg Insight, global shipments of GPS-enabled handsets is expected to grow from 175 million units in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.% to reach 560 million units in 2012. Rapid adoption of GPS technology in mass-market GSM/WCDMA handsets will be the main driver. “Last…
Juniper Research: Mobile music revenues to approach $18 billion by 2012
According to a new report from Juniper Research “Mobile Music Services: Ringtones, Ringback Tones and Original Recordings (4th edition),” subscription-based music rental services are expected to surge in popularity reaching $3.3 billion by 2012. Report author Dr Windsor Holden suggests that once consumers have taken the time and effort to build up an extensive playlist,…
First iPhone trojan discovered – 2008 kicks off with first iPhone malware
It was predicted to happen. The New Year was supposed to usher in a new wave of evil iPhone coders, and it looks like an 11-year old kid decided to kick off the new year with his very own piece of iPhone malware. The iPhone Trojan sneaks in through jailbroken iPhones’ Installer.app and starts deleting…
Telematics Research Group: Pure portable navigation devices are dying
It only makes sense when you think about it. Once we reach some service quality level, no one would want to carry more devices if they don’t have to. In a not that distant future, we’ll see the portable navigation device (PND) makers like TomTom and Garmin either dying or changing. Both companies are obviously…
Freesky Research: Airline passengers will send over 60 million text messages in 2010
I’m not sure everyone’s waiting for a day when people will be able to use their mobile phones while flying, but I know some folks that do. And I’m not talking about the phone calls — I do agree that could be annoying — rather I’m referring to sending text messages and using some data…
In early 2008 Kodak will introduce image sensors that suck less
Current image sensors on cameras work by capturing a single color per pixel and ignoring the rest. Kodak hopes to change this in 2008 with prototypes of their new panchromatic equipped image sensors that stray away from the typical red green and blue by adding an extra monochrome pixel into the mix. This technique negatively…
Interesting Stat: Close to 80% of text messages sent and received are from Asia
Considering that a third of the world’s population lives in Asia I’m not surprised about the fact that 78.9% of text messages sent and received originated from the region. That is 1.5 trillion messages. Think about it. [Via: Textually]
Holiday mobile search: It’s the big retailers shoppers are looking
Even though big retail chains are investing a serious buck in their marketing efforts, American holiday shoppers still need assistance finding local Wal-Mart and Target stores. According to V-ENABLE, holiday shopping directory assistance searches for retail businesses tend to be mostly for big-named, large-numbered retail giants. Other popular retail searches were pharmacies, electronics stores, gaming…
Brief: Swiss break record, 62 million text messages in 48 hours
From December 24 to the end of Christmas day the people of Switzerland sent over 62 million text messages, breaking the world record, which they set last year with “only” 57 million texts. [Via: Textually]