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In its latest report titled “Mobile Data Offload & Onload: WiFi & Small Cell Strategies,” Juniper talks about the growing mobile data use. According to the research company, operators are to face significant additional pressure over the next five years. Not only will smartphone and tablet users drive the growth in mobile data use, but…
Are you the sexting type whose gotten yourself in trouble for sending a sext to the wrong person? Well, don’t feel bad, as 1 in 10 mobile phone users send sexts to the wrong person, this according to the latest poll conducted by U.K.-based mobile news site Recombu. The site polled 2,000 adults, the study revealed…
According to new report from Juniper Research, the number of consumers using mobile handsets to make person to person (P2P) domestic money transfers will reach 340 million by 2016, up from 84 million in 2011. The study titled “Mobile Money Transfer & Remittances” suggests that Safaricom’s MPESA service in Kenya inspired both network operators and…
Although there’s no single LTE connection in Brazil at the moment, Pyramid predicts there will be more than 18 million 4G users in the country by the end of 2015. Moreover, this prediction comes despite operators’ skepticism on the Brazil’s preparedness for the technology, which [skepticism] comes from the fact that 3G has yet to…
In its newest report, Juniper Research forecasts that shipments of mobile computing devices like tablets, ultrabooks and other notebooks will more than double over the next five years. Driving this growth will be tablets and ultrabooks, two categories that will make up for 73% of the total market by that time. At the heart of…
In its new report, Juniper Research is examining the mobile ticketing business, forecasting that the number of tickets delivered to mobile phones worldwide will more than quadruple to 23 billion by 2016, compared with 4 billion tickets estimated to have been delivered last year. The research company says that mobile ticketing solves key problems for…
Appreciate, the personal Android Market that’s incredibly easy on the eyes has just released a nifty little chart pertaining to OMGPOP’s (Now Zynga’s) application, Draw Something. By now, you’ve probably heard of the app but it looks like the Appreciate guys wanted to see if it was all hype and how much people are actually…
Okay, so Justin Bieber may not be the average teenager, but he is rocking an iPhone just like the majority of teens these days. Piper Jaffray’s survey of 5,600 teenagers in the United States finds that interest in the iPhone among the high school demographic continues to rise. 34 percent, or a hair over one-third,…
Mobile data isn’t free. You know that, we know that, and we thought everyone else knew that, but according to a recent survey that was done by comScore, we couldn’t have been more wrong. They say that 29% of iPhone users in the US connect to the internet using nothing but cellular data. That number…
Surprise, surprise … it turns out rich folks do not tweet or play games on their smartphones. Seriously, I mean, how could you if you’re too busy making all that gwop (cash, for the slang challenged), right? Well, according to a new study by the Luxury Institute, our wealthier brethren are less likely to play…