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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…
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…