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ChangeWave Research took a survey last month of 2,893 people asking a series of questions about their satisfaction with tablets and which manufacturer they plan on buying from in the future. I’ll give you three guesses at the name of the top-ranking tablet vendor and the first two don’t count — yep, it’s Apple. Only…
In its latest report, Distimo is looking at the cross app store publishing, showing that most successful apps are available on multiple platforms and app stores. Here are the highlights: The average daily download volume among the top 100 most popular free applications in the United States is 4 million, while the average daily volumes…
While the topic of mobile apps generates so much online and offline buzz, the truth is, there are almost no absolute rules that apply to all mobile apps. What is true for mobile games, might not be true for mobile tools… Inner-Active took a bird’s eye view on the world of mobile apps according to…
According to the recent research from price comparison website uSwitch.com, 17 million mobile phone users in the UK are wasting money by not using all of them. To put it in percentages, that’s almost half (48%) of mobile phone customers who use just 50% of their monthly minute and text allowances. Furthermore, the wastage is…
There you are shopping in a mobile phone store. You want a Nokia Lumia 900 and now you are presented with a decision: which color to get. You end up picking one without looking too much into it and happily walk out of the store with your new phone. What you don’t know is that…
Toronto-based Juice Mobile released some Canadian mobile stats based on their publisher ad impression levels. From the infographic we got, you can see that RIM is dominating the picture, accounting for 45% of all the traffic. Apple’s iOS took the second place with 34% of users (3% less than last month) and finally Android is…
In its new report, Juniper Research is looking at the prospects of contactless mobile payments, forecasting that more than 1 in 4 of US and Western European users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone to pay for goods in-store by 2017, which is up from 2% this year. Worldwide, more and more NFC payment pilots…
Millennial Media released a special Q1 edition of its Mobile Mix report, which not only includes data on the top mobile devices, manufacturers and operating systems, but also a new section on global tablet trends. From here we learn that the top 3 tablets used on Millennial Media’s network are Apple’s iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab…
Children in the U.S. of A have access to an average of 12 apps on mobile devices, the majority of which (88%) were downloaded for free. According to the research firm NPD Group, children use smartphones, tablets and smart media players like iPod Touch five days of the week, with the average session lasting just…
As you can imagine, sexting is no big deal for most college students. In fact, as many as four out of five engage in sexting, even though it can lead to more than just embarrassment, especially if a minor is involved. According to one survey, 56% of students admitted to receiving sexually suggestive images and…