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About a quarter, or 25 percent, of all of Wolfram Alpha’s traffic now comes from Siri on the iPhone 4S, according to a report from the New York Times. The fact that Siri has had such a large impact on Wolfram Alpha in only a few months not only proves iPhone customers are actually using…
There’s a common stereotype that men are far more interested in the latest gadgets than women are. There’s perhaps no better example of this than Motorola’s marketing strategy for the Droid line of smartphones: keep it cool, badass and overly aggressive. A study entitled Women in CE from the Consumer Electronics Association, however, is finding that…
Google and Apple’s mobile operating systems continue to dominanate, as Android and iPhone accounted for over 90 percent of smartphone sales, according to the latest research from The NPD Group. The little green robot garnered 48 percent of the smartphone market during last quarter, while iOS handsets took in 43 percent. The study also shows that…
The Big Game is over and New York Giants fans are probably still celebrating but Google is back to work, dropping some knowledge about what were the popular searches during the Super Bowl. There were a lot of searches about Madonna, Tom Brady and more but what really interests me is the shift to mobile…
Canalys research firm issued a report today that makes us all think back to our very first time getting a blue screen of death on a PC. According to combined statistics from 2011, manufacturers shipped more smartphones than computers in 2011 – 488 million smartphones hit shelves last year, while only 414.6 million PCs did.…
Apple continues its dominance when it comes to the world of mobile devices. The Cupertino-based company’s iPhone share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 8.7 percent last quarter, according to Asymco‘s Horace Dediu. Even more impressive is that Apple’s profits in this space have…
According to the latest report by Juniper Research, a burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016. Using a smartphone as a hub, remote patient monitoring will also lower the cost of mHealth services by…
Well, the numbers are in for the different types of Android versions running on all devices, and the results are disappointing because it shows that fragmentation isn’t going anywhere. First, Google released data (below) that showed 60 percent of users are running some sort of version of Gingerbread, and only 1 percent of users were…
A new survey from Velti provides some trends to expect for the upcoming Super Bowl and your mobile phone. Some interesting (and obvious) stats are shown and we can expect the usage of the “second screen” to increase quite a bit during this year’s Super Bowl compared to last. While Super Bowl commercials are often…
According to a research from CCMI, a majority of Fortune 1000 companies are pursuing alternatives to control the exorbitant wireless bills incurred when employees do business internationally. Here’s what the report, commissioned by Truphone, reveals: 40% of companies are forbidding or curtailing business usage of wireless devices while abroad to help manage costs. 24% said…