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After two months on the market, usage for the new third-generation iPad has already surpassed usage on the original first-generation iPad released in April 2010, according to a report. Analyzing data from iOS apps it has access to, Localytics has been able to determine first-generation iPad, iPad 2 and third-generation iPad usage and compare them…
According to the latest research from eDigitalResearch and Portaltech Reply, 64% of smartphone owners are now using their mobile devices to shop online, a number that has quadrupled since June 2010. Moreover, an impressive 84% of smartphone owners have used their devices to browse websites, with 33% doing so on a daily basis, whilst 77%…
Juniper Research is looking at the mobile gambling prospects in its latest report. From there we learn that the surge in social gambling activity, along with the introduction of intrastate casino and lottery services in the US, will help push global annual wager via mobile handsets and tablets to $100 billion by 2017, up from…
The bean counters at ABI Research have made a bold prediction. They say that more than 208 million “phablets” will be sold in 2015. What’s a phablet? According to them it’s a smarpthone with a screen that measures between 4.6 inches and 5.5 inches diagonal. Now just to be clear, that’s not the definition we…
In March, Spaceport.io released part one of its study of HTML5 performance on iOS and Android and concluded that iOS smokes the competition in this regard. Today, it released part two, which compares HTML5 performance on mobile devices to the desktop web. Spaceport.io found that on average, the very best smartphones run HTML5 content 8x…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking to mobile operators and the risk they’re facing from billing errors and fraud. According to the research company, carriers face losing nearly one-quarter of revenues — nearly $300 billion — by 2016. However, this could be mitigated through the implementation of revenue assurance and fraud management solutions.…
Someone needs to invent an equivalent to Moore’s law for the rise of mobile technology connections. So far I haven’t noticed a pattern, but I’m sure these things don’t grow just like that… or they do? Anyhow, it took 12 years for GSM wireless technology to reach one billion connections, and WCDMA took 11 years.…
In its new research, ABI looks at spending on mobile apps among US consumers. According to their results, about two-thirds of app users have spent money on an application on at least one occasion. Among these paying users, the mean spend was $14 per month, though there are some striking findings. ABI’s senior analyst Aapo…
It looks like people are starting to hold back from purchasing the latest phone to hit the market. Gartner today dropped some figures that detail the worldwide sales of mobile phones were down by 2 percent this quarter. This is the first time the market has declined since the second quarter of 2009. The way…
We all know location-based ads are booming. According to a new report by Berg Insight, the total value of the global real-time mobile location-based advertising and marketing market will grow from 192 million EUR in 2011 at a CAGR of 91% to 4.9 billion EUR in 2016. This will then correspond to 28.3% of all…