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There you are shopping in a mobile phone store. You want a Nokia Lumia 900 and now you are presented with a decision: which color to get. You end up picking one without looking too much into it and happily walk out of the store with your new phone. What you don’t know is that…
Toronto-based Juice Mobile released some Canadian mobile stats based on their publisher ad impression levels. From the infographic we got, you can see that RIM is dominating the picture, accounting for 45% of all the traffic. Apple’s iOS took the second place with 34% of users (3% less than last month) and finally Android is…
In its new report, Juniper Research is looking at the prospects of contactless mobile payments, forecasting that more than 1 in 4 of US and Western European users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone to pay for goods in-store by 2017, which is up from 2% this year. Worldwide, more and more NFC payment pilots…
Millennial Media released a special Q1 edition of its Mobile Mix report, which not only includes data on the top mobile devices, manufacturers and operating systems, but also a new section on global tablet trends. From here we learn that the top 3 tablets used on Millennial Media’s network are Apple’s iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab…
Children in the U.S. of A have access to an average of 12 apps on mobile devices, the majority of which (88%) were downloaded for free. According to the research firm NPD Group, children use smartphones, tablets and smart media players like iPod Touch five days of the week, with the average session lasting just…
As you can imagine, sexting is no big deal for most college students. In fact, as many as four out of five engage in sexting, even though it can lead to more than just embarrassment, especially if a minor is involved. According to one survey, 56% of students admitted to receiving sexually suggestive images and…
After two months on the market, usage for the new third-generation iPad has already surpassed usage on the original first-generation iPad released in April 2010, according to a report. Analyzing data from iOS apps it has access to, Localytics has been able to determine first-generation iPad, iPad 2 and third-generation iPad usage and compare them…
According to the latest research from eDigitalResearch and Portaltech Reply, 64% of smartphone owners are now using their mobile devices to shop online, a number that has quadrupled since June 2010. Moreover, an impressive 84% of smartphone owners have used their devices to browse websites, with 33% doing so on a daily basis, whilst 77%…
Juniper Research is looking at the mobile gambling prospects in its latest report. From there we learn that the surge in social gambling activity, along with the introduction of intrastate casino and lottery services in the US, will help push global annual wager via mobile handsets and tablets to $100 billion by 2017, up from…
The bean counters at ABI Research have made a bold prediction. They say that more than 208 million “phablets” will be sold in 2015. What’s a phablet? According to them it’s a smarpthone with a screen that measures between 4.6 inches and 5.5 inches diagonal. Now just to be clear, that’s not the definition we…