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Flash back to 2009: You just bought a brand new Motorola Droid, the first phone to run Android 2.0 and one of the very first Android handsets to successfully compete with the iPhone. Your friend, however, decided to buy a recently released iPhone 3GS. Now jump ahead to the present: You and your friend still…
Everyone and their mama are using apps these days, and we’re everything but surprised to learn there’s money to be made in this market. According to Juniper Research, we’re talking about some serious cash, with annual revenues from consumer mobile applications set to approach $52 billion by 2016. Juniper’s report found that the introduction of…
Remember when apps basically didn’t exist for phones? There were a handful but there was never a popular marketplace for mobile apps and success stories from developers were unheard of. It’s hard to believe this time existed only five years ago in 2007. Fast forward to 2012 and consumers can’t get enough apps: over one…
We keep on hearing about this looming spectrum crisis and if you ask the carriers, the answer if for the government to make more spectrum available. But what if the real solution is to reduce the amount of carriers? A study from The Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies (got all…
About a quarter, or 25 percent, of all of Wolfram Alpha’s traffic now comes from Siri on the iPhone 4S, according to a report from the New York Times. The fact that Siri has had such a large impact on Wolfram Alpha in only a few months not only proves iPhone customers are actually using…
There’s a common stereotype that men are far more interested in the latest gadgets than women are. There’s perhaps no better example of this than Motorola’s marketing strategy for the Droid line of smartphones: keep it cool, badass and overly aggressive. A study entitled Women in CE from the Consumer Electronics Association, however, is finding that…
Google and Apple’s mobile operating systems continue to dominanate, as Android and iPhone accounted for over 90 percent of smartphone sales, according to the latest research from The NPD Group. The little green robot garnered 48 percent of the smartphone market during last quarter, while iOS handsets took in 43 percent. The study also shows that…
The Big Game is over and New York Giants fans are probably still celebrating but Google is back to work, dropping some knowledge about what were the popular searches during the Super Bowl. There were a lot of searches about Madonna, Tom Brady and more but what really interests me is the shift to mobile…
Canalys research firm issued a report today that makes us all think back to our very first time getting a blue screen of death on a PC. According to combined statistics from 2011, manufacturers shipped more smartphones than computers in 2011 – 488 million smartphones hit shelves last year, while only 414.6 million PCs did.…
Apple continues its dominance when it comes to the world of mobile devices. The Cupertino-based company’s iPhone share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 8.7 percent last quarter, according to Asymco‘s Horace Dediu. Even more impressive is that Apple’s profits in this space have…