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Verizon still commands a huge chunk of the Android market share in the U.S., but it showed some slow decline over the past few months while AT&T picked up a few percentage points. Chitika, the online advertising network, has always been in a unique position to dish out figures like these because of its presence…
A new survey from Pew Internet said that more than one third of adults rock a smartphone and that these devices can be life savers when you’re bored or to help you avoid talking to people. Not surprisingly, the survey also found that more than half of the respondents used their cell phone to look…
In its new report titled “Mobile Security Opportunities: Strategies for Tablets, Smartphones & Feature phones 2011-2016,” Juniper Research predicts that the market for security software for mobile devices and tablets will reach almost $3.7 billion by 2016, with enterprise and business users accounting for almost 69% of the market. Unsurprisingly, the recent series of high-profile…
We’ve seen the latest reports from Canalys and comScore and both show just how well the Android operating system is doing these days (pretty well) and Gartner’s latest report shows much of the same. If you had any question as to why Google’s mobile operating system has been under fire so much recently, one only…
TeleNav commissioned a small study that as far as we can tell has nothing to do with the company’s main business – mobile navigation. Rather, they seemed to crave for some media love and they succeeded, as I’m sure you can tell. The survey asked people just how much they love their smartphones and unsurprisingly…
According to a report by the British telecoms regulator Ofcom, one in three adults in the UK now uses a smartphone. The iPhone is said to be the single most popular device with 32% of adults picking Apple’s handset as their favorite. Teenagers on their end favor RIM’s Blackberrys, which were identified as the preferred…
There’s some interesting data coming out of the latest Jumptap report, as the mobile advertising company has come up with some neat data about the advertising rates on Android, iOS and others. In particular, it’s fun to see which states tend to trend more toward Android or the iPhone. Of course, this data isn’t a…
Technology still amazes me even though I’m immersed in it every day. It’s stuff like extraordinarily tiny glass lenses that can turn mobile phones into projectors that make me saw, “Sweeeet.” And just looking at the image above, I’m confident that you readers will think the same. Look at it, it’s small like a granule…
There used to be a time when you had to know what bands your operator was using in order to make sure that the mobile phone you were purchasing would connect to the network. These days almost every smartphone, and many feature phones, have quadband GSM/EDGE so you’ll be able to get call, texts, and…
Piper Jaffray recently wrapped up some research on smartphone adoption, revealing that 67% of BlackBerry owners were going to switch to an iPhone next, with only 26% sticking with RIM. By contrast, 94% of iPhone owners were going to get an Apple handset again, while 42% of Android owners would be continuing with the OS…