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Well, it looks like Verizon Wireless has just gained another notch under its belt when it comes to the carrier with the best quality. J.D. Power and Associates just announced that VZW ranked highest among all other national wireless providers in New England, which includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. This…
Mozilla, the browser vendor that many credit with providing the first real viable alternative to Internet Explorer back in 2003 with “Phoenix”, which would later be renamed to Firefox, has announced that they’re starting work on a project called WebAPI. The goal is to “have consistent APIs that will work in all web browsers, no…
According to a recent study by research and consulting firm YouGov, almost half of iPhone owners are open to making mobile payments in the UK. More precisely, 46% of iPhone owning respondents are willing to pay bills using their iPhone, 62% would transfer funds from one account to another, 69% would check account balances and…
Although we keep writing about them all the time, tablets are still far from reaching the mainstream consumer. As a matter of fact, according to In-Stat – in 2017 tablet shipments will approach 250 million units which is like nothing compared to smartphone figures. However, this won’t stop the major consumer electronic players like Samsung,…
Millennial Media is back to give you its latest edition of its Mobile Mix report and we’re gonna give you the highlights. To no one’s surprise, Android is far ahead of the competition and has extended that lead significantly in the month of July. Android ruled the smartphone market last month with a 15% month…
Mobile app ad agency Inneractive recently released an infographic detailing some data they’ve gathered after dishing out ads across multiple platforms. While some, like iPhone and Symbian, were more or less split evenly, Android app usage leaned towards male with 61%, and BlackBerry eked towards females with 59%. The infographic also dives into which app categories…
The latest numbers from NPD are out and it shows a familiar theme: Android and iOS are growing while BlackBerry is sliding. The NPD report found that 52 percent of smartphones sold in the United States last quarter were powered by Android. That’s actually quite a staggering figure and it shows how Google’s approach of…
Last time we talked about mobile video calling, we quoted numbers from In-Stat. Today we have the figures from Juniper Research, which report titled “Mobile Voice & Video Calling: Strategic Opportunities & Business Models 2011-2016” has been released recently, predicting the improved prospects of mobile video calling. Among the reasons for this rise in use,…
The general thought is that Android users don’t like to use apps as much as their iPhone counterparts and while that may actually be true, a new Nielsen study found that Android users are heavily into their apps. Android users interact with apps more than they do the mobile web. The report said that Android…
Although the city of San Francisco might not be forcing manufacturers to warn consumers about cell phone radiation any more, that hardly means the case is closed. A recent study from the University of Catania, Italy is suggesting “men using mobile phones have decreased sperm concentration, motility (particularly the rapid progressive one), normal morphology, and…