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You’ve likely been sleeping under a rock if you hadn’t notice Android OS has been growing at a rapid pace. The Q2 numbers from the UK illustrate just this, showing the Google mobile OS growing around 350% from Q1. That’s impressive, no matter what the absolute numbers are. In just three months, Android has gone…
This year will end with almost 60 million netbooks shipped worldwide. According to ABI Research, almost double that number will be reaching global markets in 2013! Of course, not all netbook makers will win this race. In 2009, half a dozen vendors commanded 78% of the market. A year before, Acer and ASUS (which pioneered…
UK-based bigmouthmedia has conducted a small survey among key decision makers at a raft of leading UK companies to find out their attitude toward mobile marketing. The results are disappointing with more than three quarters of respondents not understanding the value of a visitor via mobile compared to other digital channels. And here are some…
Another day, another survey indicating that iPhone users are generally happy with their Apple smartphone and with the AT&T wireless network. Market research boffins at Yankee Group have conducted a survey on iPhone users in the US, and the results speak for themselves. A strong 73% of Americans with a shiny iPhone in their pocket…
Talk about missing the target. ABI originally estimated that 2010 will end with 4 million tablets shipped. Now that Apple announced that it has sold 3.27 million iPads, the research company is changing the tune, big time. Under the new revisited forecasts, this year will close with 11 million tablets shipped. That’s almost 3 times…
As we have a growing number of app stores, Juniper Research is forecasting that the annual number of consumer-oriented handset downloads will rise from less than 2.6 billion in 2009 to more than 25 billion in 2015. The research company argues that players across the mobile value chain are seeking to emulate Apple’s AppStore success.…
UK’s Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) has conducted a small survey of 1,083 respondents to find out their radio listening habits. Apparently, 20% of British smartphone owners, or 1.4 million people, have downloaded a radio app on their device. Of those, over half (53%) use a radio app at least once a week; 54% select…
ABI Research is out with a new study, this time dealing with mobile video services. According to the research company, revenue from such services — which BTW include video telephony, video messaging, video sharing, video-on-demand, VoD downloads, and “other” video services — is expected to top $2 billion worldwide in 2013. Video sharing will be…
In addition to Spain, BuzzCity also considers itself a winner of the recently ended 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The mobile media company spotted a neat pattern – during the key sporting events, more people download mobile games. To put this into numbers, BuzzCity has seen more than 8.3 million game downloads to 14.8…
Juniper Research is out with a new study predicting the rapid increase in use of mobile devices for tickets of all kinds. The research company forecasts that mobile ticketing transactions will exceed $100 billion (based on gross transaction value) as soon as 2012, the amount which is more than double the market in 2010. In…