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Windows Phone passed a very important milestone for the platform this week, as there are now 50,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Though still far behind iOS and Android in terms of number of apps and market share of app downloads, Windows Phone is beginning to prove itself as a capable operating system in…
According to a new report (PDF download) from Berg Insight, good times are ahead for the mobile marketing industry. The company suggests that the total value of the global mobile marketing and advertising market will grow from 2.6 billion EUR in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37% to 17.2 billion EUR…
Are you happy with your iPad? If you said “yes,” you’re not alone, as a survey from the Software Usability Research Laboratory testing customer satisfaction for the Apple iPad, 83.65 percent of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with the tablet. The survey covered a range of other topics involving the iPad such as how user friendly…
We’ve been seeing some smartphones with amazing cameras lately and I’ve been saying for a while that these can definitely replace point-and-shoot cameras and it looks like the market agrees. A new report from NPD found that people are increasingly using smartphones to take pictures instead of cameras. The report found that the percentage of…
Freemium apps are obviously working both for consumers and developers/publishers, and the trend will continue in 2012. Already of the top-ranked 250 iOS apps across all categories, an average of 88% are free to download, monetized with advertising and in-app purchases. In that sense, the research company says that at this time next year in…
It’s been a month since the Kindle Fire launched and no one knows the exact sales figures (except for Amazon) but a new report from Millennial Media sheds some light on the success of the Amazon tablet. Millennium, a company which bases its monthly data on mobile ads distributed across its multi-platform network, says that…
According to a new report from Juniper Research, the continuing increase in smartphone adoption and the rise of geosocial networking will push the number of mobile social media users from 650 million this year to 1.3 billion by 2016. The report found that integration of social, local and mobile experiences is driving the geosocial phenomena.…
The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia just wrapped up a study with 170 students. They set up a mock stock market, where one group was set up as stock brokers, and others as stock buyers. The brokers were offered a cash incentive to sell their stock, even though some were informed…
A recent survey of over 1000 British teenagers by Mobiroo has revealed some interesting holiday trends. 61% of the kids, aged 11 – 18, said a mobile phone was on their wishlist. Of those, 17% were pretending that they still believed in Santa to get their parents on the hook for a phone, lest their…
In its latest report, Juniper Research talks about the prospects of 4G LTE networks, forecasting rapid growth once networks are launched. Numbers wise, the research company expects that the revenues from LTE will exceed $265 billion globally by 2016. Initially, it will be the high-end enterprise users who will adopt faster mobile communications, though the…