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In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking at the market for augmented reality apps, predicting that by 2017, over 2.5 billion mobile augmented reality (AR) apps will be downloaded to smartphones and tablets per annum. To put this number into perspective, that’s 3.5 times the number of downloads achieved by Angry Birds in 2011!…
More and more people are buying tablets with second quarter of this year setting a new record for media tablet shipments, reaching nearly 25 million units and representing 36% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 77% year-over-year (YoY) growth. Needless to say, Apple is still dominating this game, with its iPad accounting for almost 69% of worldwide volumes…
First Windows 8 tablets are set to hit the store shelves later this year and ABI Research predicts that their early success will largely depend on the price. According to the research company, Windows-based tablets will capture an estimated 1.5% of total tablet shipments for 2012. And if priced aggressively towards current Android tablets, these…
Mobile messaging ad spend is set to reach $7.4 billion by 2017, according to a new report from Juniper Research, with location-based SMS driving the growth. Location-based SMS schemes like O2 More are opt-in and the consumer can choose which types of offers they would like to receive. These types of schemes will become more…
Uh oh, it looks like T-Mobile has been caught fabricating camera specs on its new smartphones. According to Consumer Reports, the fourth largest wireless provider in the United States wasn’t being all the way truthful with the shooters on its myTouch and myTouch Q devices. Both handsets hit the market earlier this month, and are…
Android has been known for being incredibly vulnerable to malware threats, but a new study from Kaspersky shows that the problem is getting worse instead of better. From Q1 to Q2 2012, malware threats targeting the platform nearly tripled from 5,441 to 14,923 — that’s over the course of just three months. Almost half, or…
In another mobile payments study, Juniper Research predicts that these transactions will rise nearly fourfold over the next five years to more than $1.3 trillion. The report titled “Mobile Payments Strategies: NFC, Remote Purchases & Money Transfer 2012-2017” found that growth would primarily be driven by sales of physical goods by both remote purchases and…
There’s no question we’re all overly dependent on our smartphones. If you use your smartphone on a daily basis (which you probably do) and you say that you aren’t dependent on it, you are just flat out lying to yourself. Well just in case we wanted all the specifics on just how obsessed we are…
While we don’t have official figures, we know Nexus 7 is selling like hot cupcakes on a cold winter day. The fact that Google and/or Asus are quiet about the numbers doesn’t stop us (and anyone else) from speculating. By using the data from the supplier chain, tech-thoughts is trying to estimate how many Nexus…
According to AhHa Insights, weight loss and exercise apps are the most heavily downloaded health titles among US users, comprising 60% of total downloads. iPhone owners use their apps more often, with the performance of the top 150 apps in the AppStore “far outpacing” the performance of the top 150 Android titles. The research company…