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Yesterday I wrote up a post calling out Eric Schmidt for inaccurately predicting that six months from December 6, 2011, Android development would surpass iOS development. I used a few examples off the top of my head over the past six months of apps that did end up expanding to Android after gaining success on…
We have a new infographic to share, prepared by the good folks of [x]cube LABS. According to the data they gathered, an engrossing 70% of the organizations are either using or plan to use custom mobile apps for their business, indicating the “stirring effect of mobilizing an enterprise.” Moreover, enterprises are gradually implementing the concept…
Research firm IDC released its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report today. It predicts that Android market share is at its peak right now, but Windows Phone will continue to grow mostly at its expense. Seriously, that’s what it said. “The smartphone parade won’t be as lively this year as it has been in past,” said…
ChangeWave Research took a survey last month of 2,893 people asking a series of questions about their satisfaction with tablets and which manufacturer they plan on buying from in the future. I’ll give you three guesses at the name of the top-ranking tablet vendor and the first two don’t count — yep, it’s Apple. Only…
In its latest report, Distimo is looking at the cross app store publishing, showing that most successful apps are available on multiple platforms and app stores. Here are the highlights: The average daily download volume among the top 100 most popular free applications in the United States is 4 million, while the average daily volumes…
While the topic of mobile apps generates so much online and offline buzz, the truth is, there are almost no absolute rules that apply to all mobile apps. What is true for mobile games, might not be true for mobile tools… Inner-Active took a bird’s eye view on the world of mobile apps according to…
According to the recent research from price comparison website uSwitch.com, 17 million mobile phone users in the UK are wasting money by not using all of them. To put it in percentages, that’s almost half (48%) of mobile phone customers who use just 50% of their monthly minute and text allowances. Furthermore, the wastage is…
There you are shopping in a mobile phone store. You want a Nokia Lumia 900 and now you are presented with a decision: which color to get. You end up picking one without looking too much into it and happily walk out of the store with your new phone. What you don’t know is that…
Toronto-based Juice Mobile released some Canadian mobile stats based on their publisher ad impression levels. From the infographic we got, you can see that RIM is dominating the picture, accounting for 45% of all the traffic. Apple’s iOS took the second place with 34% of users (3% less than last month) and finally Android is…
In its new report, Juniper Research is looking at the prospects of contactless mobile payments, forecasting that more than 1 in 4 of US and Western European users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone to pay for goods in-store by 2017, which is up from 2% this year. Worldwide, more and more NFC payment pilots…