Broadband Genie has recently conducted a small survey of more than thousand of their website visitors to find out how much data mobile broadband customers use. Results are kinda stunning with most users having no idea how much data they use each month. Here’s the recap of the results: 53.5% answered “Don’t know,” 11% of…
In-Stat: There will be half a million 4G subscriptions this year, but increase is regional
According to the latest report from In-Stat, 4G technology deployments and subscriptions will begin to take root this year, but only in North America and Western Europe, while the rest of the world won’t begin to embrace it in any significant way until 2012. Most of the world is still migrating towards 3G WCDMA and…
IDC: Mobile banking almost doubled since last year
According to IDC Financial Insights, mobile banking usage has almost doubled over the past year. However, it’s still far from reaching a mainstream channel according to the research company. Banks need to realize there are few to no revenue opportunities around mobile currently, but it’s a convenient feature for the end users. That could change…
Kantar Media: Local search, social networking and games popular among smartphone users
Compete, a Kantar Media company, is out with the results of its Q1 2010 Smartphone Intelligence survey, showing how smartphone owners use their devices. Here’s what they got: Local search: Nearly one in three smartphone owners having called or stopped into a local business after finding it using a local search application. Close to a…
Android Market to hit 100,000 Android apps by the end of July?
We know that the Android Market has been growing rapidly, and in more ways than one. Last we heard, the Android Market had a cool 70,000 Android apps available, and now we’re hearing that it may have up to 90,000 at the moment. If this turns out to be true, we may see the Market…
5 Billion Worldwide Wireless Subscribers Now Toting Cell Phones
Coinciding nicely with an ABI report last week, infrastructure giant Ericsson has revealed the the number of mobile subscribers has hit 5 billion as of yesterday. The same study claims 2 million additions are made every day, more than 500 million of those subscribers are on 3G, and by their forecast, we should hit 50…
ABI Research: U.S. mobile display ad revenues to quadruple over the next five years
Although mobile advertising is still relatively young market, it is set for an explosive growth. Hence we have major companies like Google and Apple acquiring AdMob and Quattro Wireless, respectively. At the moment, spending on mobile display ads in the U.S. is valued at just under $313 million, but that number will quadruple to exceed…
Developers leaning towards Android more than any other mobile OS according to survey
Android OS is apparently the new favorite of mobile app developers in early 2010. We thought that with Android OS enjoying its buzz as the most popular platform last year was a big deal, but it looks like the little green robot just keeps on truckin’. According to a recent survey, developers are now looking…
Survey: Mobile web access on the rise
A new report from the Pew Research Center shows that the mobile Web is increasingly becoming mainstream. The survey found that 59% of Americans accessed the Internet through a wireless connection. This also includes laptops over WiFi but the most interesting figure I found out of here is that about 40% of adults use the…
Juniper Research: WiFi to bring mobile TV to the masses; Revenues to reach $7 billion by 2015
Juniper Research is out with a new report on mobile TV, arguing that with more people using free WiFi services, mobile TV industry is set to generate nearly $7 billion in revenues by 2015. According to the report, mobile TV traffic over WiFi is expected to increase by 25 times over the 2010-2015 period as…