According to a report from the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), UK-based online publishers see mobile devices and tablets as pivotal in creating opportunities to develop into world class media businesses. Here are the findings from a recent AOP survey: Half of the AOP members are currently delivering content by mobile app, with 1 in…
Texting while driving bans don’t decrease accidents
A new study shows that law which ban texting while driving have not had a significant impact on curbing the behavior and it hasn’t decreased the amount of car crashes. The Highway Loss Data Institute compared the crash rates of states with texting while driving laws with states that don’t have these requirements and the…
Are Kindle Owners Smarter Than iPad Owners?
It’s time for another Nielsen study, and this one takes a quick look at iPad owners. Apparently, of the 400 Apple tablet owners in this survey, 65 percent were male. Compared to Sony PSP and Amazon Kindle owners, who were 62 percent and 52 percent male, respectively, it’s a pretty large bias for the iPad.…
Android to be developer’s go-to mobile OS in the future
According to a survey from Appcelerator and IDC, Android may be the go-to OS for developers in the future. That doesn’t sound all that surprising as hoards of Android devices continue to hit market, but as of right now, the OS still has has some growing up to do. This survey was taken by 2,300 …
Forrester: 1 out of every 4 Americans under 44 uses a smartphone
According to research done by Forrester, who polled nearly 43,000 people during the second quarter of 2010, between Generation X (31 to 44 year olds) and Generation Y (18 to 30 year olds) smartphone ownership stands at 23%. That’s roughly 1 out of every 4 people owning a device that gives them access to their…
Sybase: Third of potential Android tablet purchasers in the U.S. want a physical keyboard
Sybase has commissioned a study on Android-powered tablet computers and has found that American public is generally interested in such devices. Here’s what they’ve found: About one in four Americans (23%) would purchase an Android-based tablet. One in every two Android smartphone owners showed a preference to purchase a tablet. Only 13% of non-Android phone…
Are you holding on to your phone for longer?
We talked about the JD Power survey earlier today about smartphone satisfaction but there was some more interesting data that I wanted to point out. The report said that the growing economic woes are causing users to hold on to their devices for longer and I wanted to know what you thought of this. According…
Paintable Lithium-Ion Nanotube Battery Could Enable Even Skinnier Phones
Put this one under “crazy-awesome technology that will probably never leave the research/prototype stage”, but Stanford researchers have found away to apply carbon nanotubes in a thin, flexible, paintable film that is able to generate enough power to keep an LED going for ten minutes. Not much for mobile applications just yet, but it’s a…
Organic Batteries May Become Reality, Could Help your iPhone Last Longer
Batteries are the necessary evil for our love affair with our mobile toys. Unfortunately, batteries aren’t very environmentally friendly, which is why you should send them off for proper disposal instead of just tossing them in your trash can. Moreover, even the best little lithium-ion batteries today don’t last for as long as we’d like…
Juniper Research: Netbooks and tablets to represent 20% of LTE subscribers by 2015
LTE 4G-enabled netbooks and tablets will be used by as many as 20% of LTE subscribers by 2015, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report author Howard Wilcox said that mobile operators will be keen to embed a wide variety of devices with broadband wireless connectivity, because they see this as a…