A new Juniper Research’s study forecasts that nearly 15 billion tickets will be delivered via mobile devices worldwide by 2014 – up from just over two billion this year. The report suggests that the transport sector is developing fastest with SMS, barcode and increasingly, app driven services being offered by rail and metro companies and…
Strategy Analytics: Global smartphone shipments jump 30% to 53 million in Q4 2009
The latest research from Strategy Analytics says that the global smartphone shipments grew 30% year-over-year, to reach a record 53 million units in Q4 2009. The research company says this is the strongest period of growth since Q3 2008, and now we have smartphones effectively leading the handset industry out of recession. Some of the…
Digitimes Research: Motorola to unseat HTC for the top Android phone maker spot
According to Digitimes Research, Motorola is likely to unseat HTC as the world’s top vendor of Android-powered handsets this year. Apparently, Moto’s shipments of Android phones will account for a 34.7% share of the segment compared to HTC’s 31.9%. HTC ended last year with six million Android phones shipped, making the company the number one…
Pyramid Research: There will be more than 450 million mobile social networking users in Europe by 2014
A new report by Pyramid Research suggests that the number of mobile social networking users in Europe is expected to increase from 52 million in 2009 to 112 million at the end of this year and eventually to over 450 million by 2014. For this growth to last throughout the entire forecast period, both mobile…
SNL Kagan: Mobile game industry revenue nears $540 million in the U.S. in 2009
SNL Kagan has released a new study suggesting that mobile game publishers grossed nearly $540 million in top-line revenue in the U.S. in 2009, up at a 12% CAGR from $382 million in 2006. SNL Kagan has also ranked the leading mobile game publishers by U.S. revenue from third-quarter 2005 to fourth-quarter 2009. In case…
Evans Data: Nokia Ovi Store rules in emerging markets of Asia-Pacific and Latin America
Apple’s AppStore may be ruling the Western hemisphere, but Nokia’s Ovi Store is the king in the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific and Latin America. That’s according to Evans Data Corp’s newly released Wireless Development Survey, which also said that Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile is performing well in case when apps are sold directly through…
Study: Windows Phone Enterprise Growth Exceeds BlackBerry’s
A recent study by Aberdeen Group examined current and planned enterprise mobile deployments, and though BlackBerry is still the king of the hill, its lead is shrinking. Their projected growth in enterprise is 3% for 2010, while Windows Mobile’s is 7%, which, if accurate, would make it a 77% – 70% race between the two.…
Juniper Research: Mobile cloud application revenues to hit $9.5 billion by 2014
Juniper Research is out with the latest report on mobile cloud computing. The company forecasts that the annual revenues from cloud-based mobile applications will reach nearly $9.5 billion by 2014. The main factors that will contribute to this growth are need for converged collaborative services, the widespread adoption of mobile broadband, and the deployment of…
Interview: Sarah Clark on Near Field Communications [Why can’t I pay for my Red Bull w/ my fone yet?]
Say what you will about how innovative the mobile telecommunications industry is, but these past two to three years have been so boring and uneventful that I may as well have asked my doctor for some Ambien and a few barbiturates, you know, for the weekend. The Nokia N95, when it came out in the…
Gartner: Consumers to spend $6.2 billion in mobile app stores this year
Consumers will spend $6.2 billion in 2010 in mobile application stores, which will exceed 8 billion downloads during the year. However, 82% of all downloads will be free, and that number will further grow to 87% in 2013. Last year (2009) ended with mobile application stores around the world generating more than $4.2 billion in…