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According to a new report from Juniper Research, the continuing increase in smartphone adoption and the rise of geosocial networking will push the number of mobile social media users from 650 million this year to 1.3 billion by 2016. The report found that integration of social, local and mobile experiences is driving the geosocial phenomena.…
The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia just wrapped up a study with 170 students. They set up a mock stock market, where one group was set up as stock brokers, and others as stock buyers. The brokers were offered a cash incentive to sell their stock, even though some were informed…
A recent survey of over 1000 British teenagers by Mobiroo has revealed some interesting holiday trends. 61% of the kids, aged 11 – 18, said a mobile phone was on their wishlist. Of those, 17% were pretending that they still believed in Santa to get their parents on the hook for a phone, lest their…
In its latest report, Juniper Research talks about the prospects of 4G LTE networks, forecasting rapid growth once networks are launched. Numbers wise, the research company expects that the revenues from LTE will exceed $265 billion globally by 2016. Initially, it will be the high-end enterprise users who will adopt faster mobile communications, though the…
In a recent survey done by the folks at eMarketer, they discovered that America’s adults are now spending more time with their mobile device than they are with newspapers and magazines. An average adult spends 65 minutes a day staring into their smartphone’s screen, versus 26 minutes for newspapers and 18 minutes for magazines. In…
A recent survey by Kantar Worldpanel concluded that 10% of American consumers over the age of 16 own a tablet of some kind. Of course, the iPad accounts for about two thirds of that, but over the last six months, iPad’s share of sales has shrunk to 50%. As a case in point, 10% of…
According to a new report from Juniper Research, almost $55 billion in international remittances will be enabled via mobile devices in 2016, up from less than $12 billion this year. Unsurprisingly established migration corridors such as the US-Mexico and intra-regional transfers across Africa and the Middle East will lead the growth, though inter/intra-regional activity from…
The world’s smallest violin is playing for Android Honeycomb tonight as a study reveals that the tablet-optimized OS only claims a one percent share among versions of Android. Lackluster Android tablet sales throughout the year make this less of a shock, but it still is a little startling. The Chitika ad network wanted to conduct…
Once again the iPad validates itself as the number one desired tablet in a new survey by Maritz Research. In addition to the iPad being the most popular brand among businesses, people that own Android, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows mobile phones show a preference for iPads over any other tablet else. This is interesting because you would think…
Apple did something different when the announced the iPhone 4S. Instead of terminating sales of the previous generation model, the iPhone 4, they continued selling it at a discounted price. They didn’t stop there though, they also kept on selling the now 30 month old iPhone 3GS. All that choice means the iPhone has all…