Here’s a shocker: teenagers love to text each other. Thanks to every operator in the nation offering unlimited text message packages for a nominal monthly fee, text message use has sky rocketed among teenagers. In a recent study done by the Pew Research Center that involved a sample of 800 teens between 12 and 18…
iPad Browser Share Surprisingly High, Accounts for .03% of All Web Traffic
.03% is generally not a heck of a lot. If I told you I was going to share .03% of my sandwich with you, you’d probably slap me in the face… But when we’re talking worldwide web traffic for new devices, .03% ain’t half bad. Of course, I’m talking about the iPad here. In a…
comScore: Smartphone users drive the U.S. mobile gaming market
comScore, the company that is lately known as an arch enemy of Jason Calacanis, is out with a new study on mobile gaming market. According to them, despite a 13% decline in the number of U.S. mobile gamers during the past year, the number of smartphone gamers increased 60%. The research company argues that smartphone…
Twitter: 37% of Users Update via Mobile
In a slick graphic called Twitter on Paper by designer Geraldo Obieta, we can see some more tidbits of information to come from Twitter’s CEO at the Chirp conference. Of interest to us mobile people is the statistic that 37% of users update from mobile. Now, that’s cool and all, but I actually think that’s…
Infonetics Research: LTE infrastructure market to top $11 billion by 2014
According to Infonetics Research, the LTE infrastructure market is expected to reach $11.4 billion by 2014, fueled by macrocell eNodeB deployments. Asia Pacific and North America are set to drive the first major wave of LTE rollouts in the 2010-2012 period, whereas the second wave, which kicks off in 2012-2013, will include the Chinese and…
Orange reveals sixth Digital Media Index
Orange today unveiled its sixth Digital Media Index (ODMI), which is a detailed report into how digital media is consumed across its mobile network. But rather than the IntoMobile readership have to wade through things, I’ve conveniently ripped out some interesting stats – coz I’m nice like that 🙂 Key findings from the April 2010 report…
Coda Research: U.S. mobile e-commerce revenues to reach $23.8 billion in 2015
According to Coda Research Consultancy, mobile e-commerce revenues in the U.S. will reach $23.8 billion in 2015, representing 8.5% of all e-commerce revenues in the country. In other words, they are predicting the growth at CAGR of 65% over 2009. The research company argues that the central driver of this growth is an increasing number…
BlackBerry App Usage Beats iPhone’s During Workday – Research
We were already pretty sure people were using their BlackBerrys for work and iPhones for fun, but just to confirm, Localytics has posted some data gathered after two months of polling “millions” of iPhones and BlackBerrys for application usage. They’ve concluded that BlackBerry users, throughout the workday, are more active with apps than on an…
Cell-All Smartphones: Department of Homeland Security looking to turn smartphone masses into crowd-sourced toxin/nuke detectors
The Department of Homeland Security wants to turn your mobile phone into a bomb-sniffing, nuke-detecting, bio-toxin analyzer to help them thwart terrorist plots. There’s been talk about this kind of crowd-sourced tech becoming a reality for years now, but the DHS is now in a position to actually do something about it. They want to…
Juniper Research: Revenues from mobile health monitoring to reach $1.9 billion by 2014
Juniper Research is out with a new report titled “Mobile Healthcare Opportunities: Monitoring, Applications & mHealth Strategies 2010-2014.” In it, they forecast that revenues from remote patient monitoring using mobile networks will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014. Heart based monitoring in the US will account for the bulk of early mobile monitoring…