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According to the new NPD In-Stat report, the growth of mobile processors in 2011 exceeded 43% and is forecast to grow at a 22% CAGR through 2016. Needless to say smartphones and tablets are leading the demand though other devices like e-readers, handheld game consoles, mobile PCs and portable media players are also helping the…
Google Play, formerly the Android Market, apparently isn’t pleasing developers in the same way the iOS App Store or even Amazon’s Appstore are. According to data from Flurry Analytics, Amazon generates nearly four times more revenue from in-app purchases than Google Play does. Flurry compared the iOS App Store, Amazon Appstore and Google Play by…
According to a new report by Juniper Research titled “Mobile Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management: Business Strategies & Forecasts 2012-2016,” mobile telecoms industry lost over $58 billion last year (more than 6% of global revenues) due to inadequate FM (Fraud Management) and RA (Revenue Assurance) processes. The report suggests that if these processes aren’t fixed,…
Everyone knows the world of technology is constantly evolving, and it’s almost impossible to predict what might be the “next big thing.” Even though most experts may not know the future, one thing they do know is soon most people in the world will carry some sort of smartphone as their daily driver. Well, that…
Google and its partners have been in a patent battle with just about every giant software company in the world, and its upcoming hearing with Oracle is just the next chapter. In the Oracle case coming up, legal documents unveiled the ruler of search generated more than four times as much advertising revenue from all…
Berg Insight is out with a new report, looking at the shipments of NFC-enabled devices. According to the research company, global sales of such products increased ten-fold in 2011 to 30 million units and are set to reach 700 million units in 2016, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 87.8%. At the…
Juniper Research is dealing with mobile finances in its latest report titled “Mobile Banking for Developed & Developing Markets,” forecasting dramatic increase in transactional mobile banking services usage, from 185 million in 2011 to over 550 million in 2016. According to the research company, those users that do make bill payments are expected to continue…
Have you ever had the misfortune of losing your cell phone? Well, a new study claims that every 3.5 seconds that go by, a person in the United States loses their cell phone. That prospect doesn’t seem shocking, but what’s surprising is most of those lost phones turn up in coffee shops. Yes, you heard…
HTC’s Thunderbolt, Verizon’s first 4G LTE enabled smartphone, shipped one year ago this month. That’s pretty insane when you think about it. The Thunderbolt was laughably immature, had a battery life of about 40 minutes, and here we are, one year later, and both AT&T and Verizon have a wide portfolio of Android smartphones that…
Whether you’re a fun-loving teenager who just bought an iPod touch or a productive business professional with an iPad, don’t deny that you probably have at least one game on your iOS device. Even though iOS is a mobile platform, according to a survey from MocoSpace, most of us prefer to play these games at…