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Economic hardship won’t affect mobile banking with Juniper Research predicting customers will flock to such services in volumes, eventually reaching 530 million users by 2013, up from 300 million in 2011. According to the research company, mobile services are becoming a fundamental component of banks’ business strategies as they respond to the current financial crisis.…
It was another banner quarter for smartphones, as the latest Nielsen numbers said that over 60 percent of those who bought a phone within the last three months chose a smartphone over a feature phone and most of these users chose an Android or iPhone. Android still led the U.S. market for the latest period…
Most of us use our smartphones at a healthy rate, occasionally checking email, talking or texting friends, surfing the web, or playing some games throughout a regular day. Some smartphone users, however, obsessively cling to their phones night and day. This smartphone addiction gets so intense that these users are reporting hearing “phantom vibrations” —…
It’s one thing to have some of your customers want to switch to a different brand. It’s another thing to have three-quarters of your customers unsatisfied and planning to make the switch. What company could possibly have 75% of its mobile phone users plotting to abandon it? You guessed it: RIM. According to data from Drippler,…
A report from Canaccord Genuity concludes that the Apple iPhone 4S was the top-selling phone on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint in November. Raise your hand if you’re surprised. No hands? I thought so. Yes, the iPhone is topping carriers’ sales charts once again. “IPhone 4S sales strength continues as distribution increases – Our November checks…
According to a new report from Juniper Research, the global redemption rate of mobile coupons will average at over 8% by 2016, representing an eightfold increase over the best paper coupons campaigns. The secret for this growth lies in the North American and Western European markets where users are now beginning to follow the same…
According to the latest report from NPD In-Stat, last year ended with 29 million active mobile VoIP users, up from 9 million in 2010. Service providers have increased smartphone penetration and competition to thank for this surge in demand. Moreover, some mobile operators also started embracing mobile VoIP, helping drive the usage. However, the research…
Google released the latest numbers showing off all versions of Android. In the Android Platform Version chart, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) has a 0.6 percent share of Android Market visitors, which is the same amount for Android 1.5 (Cupcake). ICS is split into two versions, 4.0.2, which is on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and Android…
As of yesterday, the iPad has been on the market for 21 months and in that relatively short amount of time, iPad users managed to pass three billion app downloads, according to ABI Research. Apple iPhone users took two years to accomplish such a feat, yet the iPad already accounts for 19 percent of all…
Mail Online is running a neat article, saying that Brits waste about 134 million GBP ($207 million) of electricity a year by overcharging their mobile phones and laptops. It is suggested that one in five users leave their devices plugged in once the battery is full because they don’t want to run out of power…