As part of its “Next Generation Smartphones” report, Juniper Research is investigating the prospects of video calling services. Obviously, Apple’s FaceTime will give some impetus to the market, but it will not lead to it becoming a mass-market technology in the next five years. As a matter of fact, the research company’s senior analyst Anthony…
Half of all mobile phones sold on eBay still have personal data on them [18% have porn too]
If you ever plan on selling your mobile phone on eBay, do yourself a big favor and make sure you give it a good old factory reset. Wipe the memory card too while you’re at it. This advice comes from from the mobile and forensics experts Disklabs who purchased 50 handsets from eBay, admittedly a…
Apple iPhone maker Foxconn denies reports of worker abuse
Foxconn, the manufacturer of devices like the Apple iPhone and products for Nintendo, Dell and others, is publicly responding to reports which say many of its employees face physical abuse while at work. A government study leaked to the press and found that the abuse rates were up to 50% in some Foxconn facilities and…
Analyst says Android tablets will beat out iPad
It would be impossible to say that the iPad isn’t a runaway hit. Apple has been selling its tablets like hotcakes with no formidable competition currently available but Apple doesn’t have the advantage it had with the iPhone. The times, they are a changing, and at least one analyst believes that some of the predictions…
Juniper Research: Smartphones and app stores push European mobile betting user base past 2 million
According to the even newer report on mobile betting from Juniper Research, consumer smartphone adoption has been a major driver in a resurgent European mobile gambling sector. The research company forecasts that the user numbers are expected to rise by more than 60% in 2010, with more than 2 million sports book customers in Europe…
mBlox survey shows US still lags behind the UK in adoption of mobile services
Mobile transaction network mBlox released the results of its consumer research, revealing almost 90% of consumers prefer multi-channel options for interacting with businesses. Among the communication methods consumers like is SMS, which is seen as a handy tool for reminders and coupons. In terms of the SMS adoption, 59% of UK and 17% of US…
comScore: Japanese people use the mobile web the most, Europeans are SMS addicts
In a survey done by comScore, sample size unknown, some startling results were found between the differences of how the Japanese, Europeans, and Americans use their mobile devices. You’d think that because mobile phones are so limited in what they can do that everyone, everywhere, would be doing the exact same thing, but you’d be…
1 in 3 High School Students Want the iPhone as Their Next Device
Ah, high school. Didn’t everyone just love those days? No? I sure did, but I didn’t have the worries that today’s high schoolers do – like choosing a smartphone that won’t get them ostracized by friends. One fool-proof gadget that will guarantee social acceptance is the iPhone. Sure, BlackBerry is wildly popular as a messaging…
comScore: Smartphone users are majority of mobile browser and application users in U.S.
comScore is out with a new report on mobile application and browser usage among smartphone subscribers in the U.S. The study found that the number of smartphone users accessing mobile content through browsers and applications now surpasses that of non-smartphone users — in the 3 month average ending August 2010, smartphone subscribers made up 60%…
Are your Apple iPhone apps privacy risks?
A new study suggests that your Apple iPhone apps may be a gigantic privacy hole, as your Unique Device IDs may be transmitted to a variety of third parties. The report comes out of Bucknell University and it said that 68% of the apps it studied sent out UDID information to servers from advertisers or…