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The research company research2guidance has some interesting figures to report on the mobile app market. According to them, the development service market today is currently twice as big as the app download market. What’s more, this market — which includes application creation, management, distribution and extension services — will grow in value to $100 billion…
Google recently released the most up to date Android version stats for the last two weeks ending on July 5th, and while there are now a few new API levels to look at, the report remains largely the same from previous months. While Android 2.2 Froyo remains the most used version of the OS, Gingerbread…
The HTC Thunderbolt was the first phone to hit the market with Verizon 4G LTE and a new report from iSuppli suggests that the high-speed mobile data capabilities greatly added to the cost. In fact, the company said it was the most expensive phone to make that is has torn down yet. In a report,…
In another press release from its report titled “Mobile Payment Strategies: Opportunities & Markets 2011-2015,” Juniper Research predicts that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC transactions will reach $670 billion by 2015, up from $240 billion this year. The report reveals that all segments will exhibit…
In its latest report, In-Stat looks at the mobile VoIP usage among businesses. According to the research company, mobile VoIP is being adopted in both the consumer and business segments, but has only recently begun to be implemented in the business environment. However, the growth rates are strong and by the end of the forecast…
Well, mobile phone users – it looks like the cat is finally out of the bag. All of your hours of playing mobile games such as Angry Birds has finally been tracked by Nielsen and apparently approximately 64% of you play games on your mobile device. Bravo! According to Nielsen’s latest findings, Games is the…
Remember back when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone in January 2007? Everyone thought it was a phone from the future, and it completely upended the smartphone industry. We’d seen touchscreens before, but none quite as elegant or responsive as the one Apple used for the iPhone. Why did it take so long for competitors, namely…
The new Net Applications NetMarketShare report says that the iPad now accounts for over 1% of worldwide web browsing and 2.1% in the US. Moreover the figures suggest mobile browsing is on the rise all around the world, accounting for 5% globally and more than 8.2% in the U.S. of A. iPad mobile web usage…
Justin Manweiler (pictured above), a graduate student in computer science at Duke University, one day thought to himself how come WiFi devices use more power when there’s more of them in a room compared to when when they’re alone? Under the direction of Romit Roy Choudhury, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke’s…
A new Juniper’s report is all about mobile payments. In it the research company predicts that the number of mobile phone users making payments for digital goods will reach 2.5 billion worldwide by 2015, up from 1.8 billion forecast for 2011. In other words, that’s growth of 40%! Two sectors that will drive this growth…