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A recent survey conducted by IT security expert Avira revealed that 60 percent of consumers want a tablet or smartphone for the holidays. When people were asked the question “What new IT gadget would you like for the holidays?” 30 percent said a tablet and 28 percent said a smartphone. Not everyone is as into mobile as us, as 24 percent…
Fiserv, a financial and technology solutions company, conducted some really interesting research that showed a significant uptick in the way consumers pay their bills. It turns out that six million Americans have used smartphones to make bill payments in the past year, according to the company’s 2011 Billing Household Survey. This is not only due to the change…
Not too long ago, a very large sum of people were afraid to shop online due to fears of credit card theft and other reasons. Not only are most of us now comfortable with shopping online, we’re going on shopping sprees on our mobile devices more than ever, according to a new study from comScore.…
We knew that Android 2.3.x Gingerbread would eventually become the largest version used and Google’s latest stats prove just that. Gingerbread is now running on slightly more than 50% of all devices that have accessed the Android Market in the past two weeks and has no signs of slowing down. Introduced almost exactly a year…
Horace Dediu, former Nokia employee turned Apple analyst, was one of the first people we can remember who suggested that the invention of unique and different input methods are directly responsible for the user interface revolutions that we’ve experienced over the past few decades. Apple changed things with the mouse, then with the mulitouch screen,…
According to Juniper Research’s latest report, the continued growth of dedicated ebook readers and tablets will push annual revenues from eBooks delivered to portable devices to $9.7 billion by 2016, up from $3.2 billion this year. The research company has found that the increasing demand for tablets means that these devices will account for nearly…
Although video calling has become fairly common in the PC market, it has just recently started becoming mainstream on mobile devices and TVs. While many of the players cross over between screen-types, the dynamics in each market are quite unique. New NPD In-Stat research forecasts the total number of active video calling users will surpass…
I believe the iPhone 4S is a very nice device, but is it worth breaking your existing contract and paying fees to get? Well, data from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners suggest that up to 45 percent of broke their contract to get the latest Apple smartphone. The report found that more than half (52…
According to the latest report by Juniper Research, the combination of the smartphone and the app stores has created a vibrant market for mHealth apps which are forecast to reach 142 million downloads globally by 2016. Mobile apps already cover a wide range of mHealth use cases, from medical calculators to monitoring software. However, it’s…
At this point, there no arguing about the dominance that is Android. Not too long ago, we wrote about ComScore’s survey, which showed 45 percent of all smartphones nationwide were Android operated. Well, the folks over at Nielsen have another study that shows the growth of both Google and Apple’s software ecosystem, particularly in the app downloads…