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In its latest press release, ABI Research talks about gesture recognition technologies saying that they add another dimension to our interactions with machines. According to the research company, 600 million smartphones will be shipped with vision-based gesture recognition features in 2017. To prove its forecast, ABI turns to camera-based tracking, saying that such technology has…
Visage Mobile released a somewhat intriguing infographic titled “Dirty Little Secrets” that deals with wasted mobility spending. The company used its “Mobility Central” platform and carrier data from 450 companies in 21 different industries to compile data for both Corporate Liable and Individual Liable devices. The highlights include: 10% of downloads by enterprise employees consist…
In today’s mobile space, it’s all about who (which company) has a bigger ecosystem. Apple is still leading the way with its iOS platform, though Google’s Android is catching up. Microsoft’s Windows Phone is also a contender but it’s still far away from the two leading operating systems. That said, we also have few losers…
The largest independent mobile video service Vuclip announced the results of a recent survey of women with 2,700 respondents from the U.S. The results suggest that 78% of women believe their time spent viewing content on mobile is increasing. Moreover, it found that approximately 55% of women are spending more than 30 minutes per day…
The market for smart accessories is set to boom according to Juniper Research. Their latest report predicts that sales of these app enabled devices will rise from just over 10 million this year to over 100 million units by 2017, with services like payment processing, health and fitness monitoring leading the way. The research company…
After gambling, Juniper Research is looking at the prospects of mobile betting on sportsbooks and exchanges, predicting that this market will reach $45 billion by 2017. In comparison, last year mobile and tablet users placed $13 billion in bets, $3 billion of which came from the UK. And the market keeps growing rapidly with companies…
Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf released his quarterly report on the status of the smartphone market, pointing out that China is the worldwide leader. Shipments in China increased 164 percent from the year-ago quarter, now at 33.1 million units. The United States is second in the race with 25 million units sold in the…
FixYa is an online service that aims to help people troubleshoot issues with almost any gadget they own using its vast support community. From this, its able to gather plenty of interesting data for each product including which are the biggest problems users face for each. In a new report it released today, FixYa is…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking at the in-app mobile ad space, forecasting that companies will spend $7.1 billion by 2015 on this form of advertising (up from $2.4 billion this year) and will help triple the spend on mobile advertising by 2017. According to the research company, the increasing spend will be…
Today’s infographic visualizes the mobile landscape in Canada using the data from Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Agency and comScore. I was kinda surprised that only 74% of the country’s population own a mobile phone, which is a much lower percentage than any European country. Then again, of those who do have a mobile phone, 48% have…