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In its latest study, Juniper Research is looking at prospects of mobile TV and video services. The research firm forecasts that by 2017, revenues from these services on mobile and tablet devices will reach $9.5 billion, up from $4.5 billion this year. According to their findings, this growth will come as a result of the…
In a recently unearthed research paper written from Microsoft Research, the company has been looking into smartphones that can detect your mood. The technology, known as “MoodScope, would allow users to automatically share these moods through social networks like Facebook. According to the report, Microsoft’s prototype can detect your mood at 66% accuracy on average.…
During the first quarter of this year, India became the third largest smartphone market after China and United States. In the first three months, Indians bought more smartphones than users in Japan, who until that point held the third spot. Among the brands that dominate the local landscape are major companies like Samsung, Nokia and…
According to a recent report by Juniper Research, over 160 billion apps will be downloaded globally in 2017, up from 80 billion in 2013. This sharp rise is explained with more users in developing markets upgrading from feature phones to smartphones, as well as a growing number of apps downloaded at no upfront cost. The…
During the first quarter of this year, more than 39 million tablets shipped all around the world, representing the second largest volume of shipments to date after Q4 2012. According to ABI Research, the spending power of the largest three world regions (North America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific’s Japan and South Korea) and availability of…
With 2015 just around the corner, there’s one question that has been plaguing many an 80’s baby: where’s my Hoverboard? An Indiegogo campaign is setting its sights on developing a working Hoverboard by 2015, asking for a cool $1 million to bring the skateboard without wheels from Back To The Future II from the big…
ABI Research predicts that the mobile app market will be worth $27 billion this year. The research firm forecasts that BlackBerry and Windows will slowly augment their app catalogue as they compete for the 3rd ecosystem, but will remain far behind Apple and Android. Apple’s iOS will continue to rule the market, generating more than…
Global smartphone display shipments have increased 120% over the past two years, with growing sales of larger, higher resolution displays contributing the most. According to DisplaySearch, this is a two-fold growth: on one hand we have the iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5, and on the other makers of the high-end Android smartphones with 720p HD…
Just like we had 3.5G (HSPA) after 3G, we’ll have 4.5G called LTE-Advanced after 4G (LTE). According to ABI Research, the LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) subscriptions will take an important role in the mobile subscriber market, growing at a CAGR of 295% between 2013 and 2018 to reach 500 million while representing 34% of the overall 1.47…
With more than 81 million mobile subscriptions in the UK, mobile communications have become a ubiquitous and vital part of everyday life. How many people have mobile phones, which networks are preferred and what might the future hold? The following infographic explores this – here are the highlights: 9 in 10 UK adults have a…