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NPD just recently released their newest report about the big guns of the smartphone market, and if you’ve yet to see the trend forming, this report will easily show you what’s going on – spoiler, Android is the big winner. The 3rd quarter of 2010 saw Android skyrocket, BlackBerry sliding, and Apple surfing on flat…
Juniper is bullish on the prospects of tablet computers, forecasting that the number of annual shipments for such devices will reach 81 million by 2015 as an increasing number of consumer electronics manufacturers enter the market. As we all know, Google’s Android OS encouraged many electronics makers to release their tablets and we see a…
After Juniper, we have another research company exploring the prospects of the mobile video calling services. It’s In-Stat which has found that this market’s total revenues will exceed $1 billion by 2015. Obviously, they point out that video calls are nothing new, but they returned to the spotlight following Apple’s introduction of the iPhone 4…
In-Stat is out with a new report, this time examining the mobile processor market. Unsurprisingly, the research company thinks that smartphones will continue to be the innovation driver in the mobile processor technology, particularly as they get more complex to integrate multiple cores, GPUs and baseband modems. On that note, the prediction is that companies…
Last month Apple bought Swedish firm Polar Rose for around $22 million. Their speciality? Facial recognition software. Scientists at The University of Manchester have also been working on figuring out how to bring facial recognition to mobile devices, and the results are both impressive and shocking. Most mobile phones, even the iPhone 4 now, have…
Smartphone adoption is growing rapidly if you hadn’t noticed. In fact, smartphone adoption is growing so rapidly that 19% of all phones shipped today are smartphones. This is expected to grow even more, and much faster than it took to get where we are today. Smartphone shipments have gone up 12% since the first quarter…
OpenCloud, a technology firm that sells hardware and software that enables operators to deploy services on the cheap, has commissioned a survey, performed by research agency Loudhouse, on 1,000 mobile users in the UK. The results are not what you would typically expect if all you rely on for an accurate depiction of the mobile…
eMarketer is out with its latest report on mobile marketing, predicting that this year will end with $743.1 million in total mobile ad spending, representing a more than 25% increase over last year’s forecast. Moreover, the research company’s projections are up on the order of 25% to 35% per year through 2014. Among the factors…
Strategy Analytics, an analyst firm that keeps a running tally of how everyone is doing in the mobile industry in terms of unit shipments, took out their abacus, punched some numbers, and found that 77 million smartphones shipped during the third quarter of this year. That’s up 78% compared to last year. The biggest “winner”…
Scientists have recently been looking at human communication patterns to see if they can identify trends that speak to how society is adopting technology. Often people think that a new social network or other such service is going to change human behavior, but soon reality sets in that people simply use new methods of contacting…