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Well, you know how many of us thought the Android army was unstoppable? Well, Nielsen’s latest numbers suggest that may not be the case in the United States, as it said the Apple iPhone is now driving the growth in smartphone users. With about 38 percent of the U.S. market, Android is still the leading…
Like it or not – 3D phones and tablets are coming. An increasing number of devices made by major OEMs will offer 3D experiences to the users and this fact will drive demand for image sensors. According to In-Stat, image sensor makers can expect that demand to rise 130% by 2015. The reason is simple…
Just because some video is an ad, it doesn’t mean people won’t watch it. Quite the contrary – if we’re talking about clever commercial, mobile consumers won’t tune out, but share it with friends. According to Vuclip (former BlueApple.mobi), some of the ads — including T-Mobile’s “Royal Wedding” and Corning’s “A Day Made of Glass”…
In its new report, Juniper Research talks about the prospects of mobile instant messaging (IM) services, forecasting that the number of users will exceed 1.3 billion by 2016. In other words, that’s three times more users than last year — the growth that will be driven by the arrival of new services, such as Apple’s…
research2guidance is out with a new report, talking about Android app distribution. The research company found that a number of developers are opting to submit their apps to multiple app stores in an effort to get their work noticed by the end users. At the moment, there are more than 30 alternative Android distribution platforms,…
Nielson released some new information regarding how smartphone data usage has changed in the past year and it shows that usage has gone up even though prices haven’t. It’s no doubt that the amount of smartphones in the market has increased dramatically and this is all thanks to the growth of Android and the iPhone…
When it comes to spending money on technology, we’d like to believe we are best at it, but apparently you don’t work for the US government. It appears that after the government gets your tax checks in, they go on a tech shopping spree much like we do when we get our tax returns. Gizmodo…
The mobile phone world seems to revolve around the North America, Korean, and UK mobile phone market, but there’s more to the mobile scene than what we usually talk about. Quirksmode.org put together a chart of how other countries are using their phones to browse the web. The countries covered include Brazil, China, Egypt, India,…
Millennial Media, a market research company, just released its Mobile Mix report for the month of May to give us an idea of how the market is being split between all the major platforms. Wednesday, they released this chart showing us how Android and iOS are currently doing against Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS and…
I’m making the rounds in Finland to survey its mobile tech scene (disclosure: FinnFacts paid for my trip) and it was somewhat surprising to hear that the country’s software industry may see Nokia’s shift to Windows Phone as a big opportunity. I say it’s surprising because there has been a lot of (deserved) doom and…