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Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf released his quarterly report on the status of the smartphone market, pointing out that China is the worldwide leader. Shipments in China increased 164 percent from the year-ago quarter, now at 33.1 million units. The United States is second in the race with 25 million units sold in the…
FixYa is an online service that aims to help people troubleshoot issues with almost any gadget they own using its vast support community. From this, its able to gather plenty of interesting data for each product including which are the biggest problems users face for each. In a new report it released today, FixYa is…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking at the in-app mobile ad space, forecasting that companies will spend $7.1 billion by 2015 on this form of advertising (up from $2.4 billion this year) and will help triple the spend on mobile advertising by 2017. According to the research company, the increasing spend will be…
Today’s infographic visualizes the mobile landscape in Canada using the data from Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Agency and comScore. I was kinda surprised that only 74% of the country’s population own a mobile phone, which is a much lower percentage than any European country. Then again, of those who do have a mobile phone, 48% have…
In its latest report, ABI Research is looking at mobile security, namely embedded mobile device hardware security. According to the research firm, this market is (will be) valued at approximately $430 million in 2012, and is set to grow to $1.9 billion by 2017. The bulk of the market is attributed to embedded chip security…
According to a new report from Juniper Research, the smartphone industry has the opportunity to save 30 million tonnes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next five years by targeting the largest sources within its supply chain activities, most notably component manufacturing. The “Green Handset & Tablet” report estimates that supply chain activities like…
You’ve heard about fanboys, right? Apple has one of the most dedicated following in the world with some of their users bashing any other platforms and devices (not made by the Cupertino-based company) by default. To be fair, Apple does make some rock-solid products and is — unlike many of its competitors — well-known for…
Smartphones will drive $20 billion in aftermarket accessory revenues this year, accounting for more than half of the $36 billion that all aftermarket handset accessories will produce. By 2017, smartphone accessories will grow to $38 billion in revenues, with feature phone accessory revenues declining to $12 billion. Feature phone consumers will spend an average of…
According to a new report from Juniper Research, the strong growth amongst games and infotainment applications, in part fostered by consumer tablet market, will push mobile entertainment revenues to more than $65 billion annually by 2016, up from $36 billion last year. The report titled “Mobile Entertainment Strategies: Business Models & Forecasts 2012-2016” noted that…
Juniper Research issued another press release dealing with prospects of the mobile adult video content. According to the research company, tablet owners present a specially interesting group for the content providers, with the user base set to triple by 2015. Tablet owners are generally more affluent than the average user and are more likely than…