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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…
Oh HTC. It’s sad that a company with truly great hardware is heading down the same path as RIM did. (Hasn’t that sloppy mess flatlined yet?) HTC announced its monthly sales for October and the news is quite abysmal to say the least. In 2011, the vendor sold NT$44 billion ($1.5 billion) worth of smartphones.…
Results from a study conducted by Strategy Analytics have revealed that for the first time ever, owner loyalty toward the iPhone has declined. The study shows that 88 percent of iPhone owners in the United States plan to buy another Apple smartphone in the future. In Western Europe, that number is at 75 percent. Both…
SellCell.com, a website service that allows you to find the best buy-back deal for your phone or tablet, released new statistics about tablet trade-ins. It particularly revolves around Apple’s recent unveiling of the fourth-generation iPad and new iPad mini. Since that announcement, it turns out iPad trade-ins have skyrocketed up 500 percent. The Apple iPad…
With 74.1% share, smartphones remain the dominant device in mobile advertising impressions in the UK. However, tablet usage is increasing rapidly with an overall share of 18.9%. According to data from the InMobi mobile advertising network from July 2012 to September 2012, Apple’s iPhone (27.9% impression share) continues to be the most popular single handset…