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Apple has become so ridiculously successful that it competes with itself. The Cupertino-based company saw its tablet market share trimmed in the fourth-quarter, as the new iPhone 4S proved to be the strongest competitor for the iPad during the final three months of 2011, according to a new study from IHS iSuppli Research. Apple shipped…
Apple’s iPad 2 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire are two of the top-selling tablets on the market today. FixYa, the product Q&A web destination, surveyed its users to discover the issues they have with the two popular products, and here’s what they’ve found: Top 5 Kindle Fire problems Can’t Turn Off One-Click Shopping – 30% –…
In its latest report, Juniper talks about the future of mobile ticketing, forecasting that 1 in 8 (13%) of North American and Western European mobile users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone as a metro rail or bus ticket by 2016. That’s a significant rise from today when only 1% of folks are doing so.…
Although tablets are still considered primarily as media consumption devices, they are steadily getting traction among the businesses. According to NPD In-Stat’s latest report, the most common business uses of tablets are email and calendar management, note taking, and presentations, with 77% reporting email as a common workplace use. When business tablet users are asked…
A new study claims that hackers have moved their attention away from PCs and web sites to new targets: mobile devices, smartphones and tablets. This intrusion of personal information moved to mobile devices because of the explosive growth these unique electronics have garnered in the past couple of years, according to a new report from…
Cisco today released its annual mobile data traffic forecast and it estimated that there will be 10 billion mobile connections by 2016. Eight billion out of this astronomical number represents cell phones — a huge estimate when you consider it means the mobile penetration rate will be at roughly 100 percent or more. The real surprise…
Flash back to 2009: You just bought a brand new Motorola Droid, the first phone to run Android 2.0 and one of the very first Android handsets to successfully compete with the iPhone. Your friend, however, decided to buy a recently released iPhone 3GS. Now jump ahead to the present: You and your friend still…
Everyone and their mama are using apps these days, and we’re everything but surprised to learn there’s money to be made in this market. According to Juniper Research, we’re talking about some serious cash, with annual revenues from consumer mobile applications set to approach $52 billion by 2016. Juniper’s report found that the introduction of…
Remember when apps basically didn’t exist for phones? There were a handful but there was never a popular marketplace for mobile apps and success stories from developers were unheard of. It’s hard to believe this time existed only five years ago in 2007. Fast forward to 2012 and consumers can’t get enough apps: over one…
We keep on hearing about this looming spectrum crisis and if you ask the carriers, the answer if for the government to make more spectrum available. But what if the real solution is to reduce the amount of carriers? A study from The Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies (got all…