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It’s not much of a shock but a new study from Intel says that mobile etiquette is getting much worse. The survey of 2,000 adults found that 75% of people think the lack of mobile etiquette is getting worse and that 65% of people are actually getting visibly angry around people who show off bad…
While we still wait for the Motorola Xoom to prove itself against the iPad, most folks still prefer Apple’s tablet over any other similar device. U.S. immigrants are no exception to the rule, according to recent survey conducted by the mobile VoIP company Rebtel. Rebtel collected 1,340 responses from immigrants residing in the United States,…
Accessing the internet while on the go is the reason why many of us use smartphones in the first place. Whether you’ve got 100+ applications installed or absolutely none, the browser icon is the one you most often reach for while waiting in line at the supermarket or when you’re bored listening to your friends…
IHS has just published some research on much revenue was made through the Android Market, iPhone App Store, Nokia Ovi Store, and BlackBerry App World in 2010. Predictably, the iPhone App Store is still the king of the hill with $1.7 billion in revenue, but they’ve lost some market share since 2009 (82% vs. 92%).…
When portable music players first hit the market, and I’m talking about the Sony Walkman here, it changed the way not only people consumed the songs they loved, but how they interacted with the world around them. Whether or not you think the army of zombies marching with headphones plugged so deep into their ear…
Devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, are pretty useless when they can’t connect to the internet and according to the analysts at Berg Insight that’s why 22 million devices from the consumer electronics (CE) sector shipped with cellular connectivity built-in during 2010. That’s double the number from 2009. They go on to predict that by…
Although it’s still far from reaching the saturation point, Apple’s AppStore doesn’t grow as fast as it used to. According to the App Genome Project, the number of apps available in the AppStore increased by 44% since August 2010, while Android Market grew at an impressive rate of %127 in the same period. With nearly…
GSMA used its Big Show to unveil some cool numbers regarding GSM-based technologies adoption. We crunched the numbers to bring you only the key points: HSPA mobile broadband connections have increased by 100% year-on-year, passing 400 million globally. More than 17 million HSPA connections are being added each month around the world, compared to nearly…
According to a January 2011 survey by Zokem Research, mobile apps attract almost as much mobile device use as messaging, and exceed the totals for voice calls and web browsing. The study, commissioned by GSMA’s Wireless Intelligence, reveals that mobile apps are responsible for 667 minutes of use per user each month, almost as much…
According to In-Stat, the U.S. healthcare wireless data spending will surpass $4.5 billion by 2014. It is said that factors like immediacy and mobility are driving this increase in mobile data consumption among the medical caregivers. More precisely, caregivers benefit from having on-the-go access to patients’ status, records, diagnostic tools, prescriptions and medications to better…