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A new report from Berg Insight predicts that mobile location-based service (LBS) revenues in Europe will grow from 205 million EUR in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.4% to reach 435 million EUR in 2016. The research company estimates that 20% of all mobile subscribers on the Old Continent already use…
Analyst Chris Whitmore and his team at Deutsche Bank did some research regarding Apple’s Black Friday sales this year. They assessed over 100 Apple retail stores and over 100 authorized Apple resellers, such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. Whitmore declared that about 75 percent completely sold out of iPhone 4S stock…
Internet security service provider, Zscaler, recently published some interesting usage data for the last quarter, including some insight into mobile browser usage. Although iOS may be winning device adoption over BlackBerry in businesses, it looks like the majority of Zscaler’s enterprise subscribers that browse the web on smartphones (40.3%) are doing so through an Android…
It took a few years, but it’s finally happened. More smartphones were sold in China during Q3 2011 than in the United States. The exact number? 23.9 million versus 23.3 million. Not a whole lot, but consider this: the population of the United States is 307 million, meanwhile there are 1.3 billion people in China.…
The latest report from Distimo is focusing on Windows Phone, partly as a celebration of its one-year birthday. Among their findings were figures for daily app downloads in the U.S., which includes 20,000 paid downloads each day, and 101,000 free apps each day. Distimo also agrees with other recent metrics that puts the total number…
Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney predicts Amazon will sell 12 million Kindle Fire tablets in 2012, which works out to 15% of the tablet market. Mahaney forecasts that 20 million units will be sold in 2013, and the price will get knocked down to $179, but we’ll see if that pans out. Of course, Amazon is…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is talking about LTE, saying that the use of LTE networks is set for impressive growth. According to the research company, subscriber levels will attain 428 million by 2016 but will only reach 6% of the global subscriber population. Most of this growth is expected to occur starting from…
Searching for mobile applications just got a whole lot easier with Google’s search category for applications. I’m not sure when this category debuted on the Google search results page, but it was just noticed by the folks at the Google Operating System blog. All you have to do is search for a keyword and look…
If you include the iPad as a PC, Canalys said that Apple is poised to surpass HP as the world’s largest computer maker by the end of 2012. Some of you may think that it’s not fair to include the iPad in PC shipping numbers but for the casual audience, an iPad is probably more…
NPD has concluded in a recent study that the TouchPad, HP’s last webOS product for the foreseeable future, turned out to be the second-most popular tablet in the U.S. so far this year. While it might seem crazy that a dead platform managed to beat out a dearth of Android competition (namely from Samsung), the…