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After research2guidance, we have Juniper Research pointing to the potential problems the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend may bring. According to the research company, the number of employee owned smartphones and tablets used in the enterprise will more than double by 2014, reaching 350 million users by 2017 when it will represent almost 23%…
Some 88% of U.S. adults have a mobile phone, and of that number – 72% experienced dropped calls at least occasionally, according to a Pew Research Center survey. What’s more, a third (32%) say they encounter this problem at least a few times a week. When it comes to unwanted sales or marketing calls, 68%…
It’s no secret that more people in the world are starting to own smartphones. This known fact has turned into an incredible opportunity for retailers to push its products through these handsets, hoping users get more dependant on shopping on their devices. Indeed, because of these efforts, people are getting more comfortable with mobile payments,…
Multi-platform, multi-network IM chat and VoIP client Nimbuzz surpassed 100 million users mark, eventually becoming one of the largest mobile and web communications platforms. Similarly to Skype, it offers free Nimbuzz-to-Nimbuzz calls, while those to landlines and mobile phones cost less (when compared to standard calling rates). Nimbuzz sings along a number of IM networks,…
You know that many companies have started embracing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) practices, allowing employees to use their private devices (smartphone and tablets) for business purposes. According to research2guidance’s study, while there are financial benefits to this practice, most companies (67%) are not aware of risks involved. To tackle the issue the research company…
The US IAB’s Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence, IAB UK and Mojiva partnered to shed some light on how mobile fits into the Olympic Games. The three parties conducted a brief survey of American and British mobile consumers reached by Mojiva’s ad network regarding their plans for the mobile summer Olympics. Here are the highlights:…
The m-commerce market is poised for significant growth, with ABI Research forecasting that it will account for 24.4% of overall e-commerce revenues by the end of 2017. According to their findings, we have the rapid adoption of smartphones in both mature and developing markets to thank for this growth, as well as a retail market…
The latest Distimo Report looks at Apple’s App Store, four years after it was unveiled alongside iOS 2.0 (then iPhone OS). At launch, it had only 500 applications and today it counts more than 650,000 titles. Here are the highlights from the report: Due to emerging competition, the number of downloads among the top 200…
With more and more people getting a smartphone, mobile data consumption keeps rising. According to a new study by ABI Research, the global volume of mobile data traffic will exceed 107 exabytes in 2017, which is eight times more than what is expected for 2012. However, ABI’s senior analyst Aapo Markkanen says that although the…
According to a report from the Wireless Smartphone Strategies service by Strategy Analytics for smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2012, overall shipments in the United States fell 5.4 percent from the year-ago quarter to just under 24 million units. Q2 had one of the slowest growth rates ever for the U.S. smartphone market.…