In its latest study, In-Stat is focused on (non mobile phone) connected devices. According to the research company, mobile operators should benefit from the user interest in devices such as tablets and e-readers. In that sense, In-Stat has found that by 2015, tablets will have the highest 3G/4G attach rate among all cellular-enabled portable and…
AT&T demos upcoming 4G LTE network: 28.87 Mbps down, 10.4 Mbps up
During a visit to AT&T’s Foundry Space in Plano, Texas, Stacey Higginbotham, a writer for GigaOM, asked if she could get a demo of the soon to launch 4G LTE network and the engineers were more than happy to let her run some speed tests. The numbers she got: 28.87 Mbps down and 10.4 Mbps…
Isis decision to work with Visa and Mastercard makes iSuppli increase their NFC shipment forecast
Last year a new joint venture called Isis was created by AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile with the goal of setting up an operator owned near field communication (NFC) based mobile payment solution that would leverage the infrastructure built by Discover. Earlier this month however Isis announced that they’ve had a change of heart and that…
Mobile market grew 19% year over year in Q1
Gartner has posted their report for the first quarter of 2011, which shows predictably solid growth in smartphones, and re-establishes many trends we’ve been seeing all along. Nokia’s hardware market share has dipped to 25%, Samsung is down to 16%, and LG to 5.6%. That leaves Apple with 3.9% market share (up from 2.3% last…
Millennial Media’s Mobile Mix for April 2011 shows Apple and Google still dominating
Millennial Media has just released its Mobile Mix report for April 2011 and as you’d expect, Apple and Google are leading the market with RIM trailing not too far behind. For the first time, all mobile phones in the Top 20 list are smartphones. The iPhone (20.3%), BlackBerry Curve(5.29%), and the EVO 4G (3.11%) top…
InMobi: North American mobile ad market up 17%, global – up 11%
InMobi unveiled its Mobile Insights Report: North American and Global Editions April 2011. The data is gathered from the company’s mobile ad network, which currently serves 35 billion monthly mobile ad impressions to over 314 million consumers globally. Here are the highlights: InMobi network grew by 17% in North America (900 million monthly impressions) and…
RIM PlayBook sold 250,000 units in first month, analysts say
The BlackBerry PlayBook is off to a solid start, as analysts are estimating that Research In Motion’s first tablet sold about 250,000 units in the first month. While that’s nothing compared to the Apple iPad 2, it’s a more-than-respectable figure for the company first foray into the tablet space. After doing some extensive retail checks,…
AT&T and T-Mobile customer satisfaction plunges after merger announcement
When AT&T announced its plan to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, the resulting backlash was pretty much expected. Other carriers, like Sprint, became incredibly vocal in their opposition to the merger, insisting that the result would create a duopoly in the wireless market in the U.S. Customers were confused and upset, but…
Juniper Research: Counter terrorism could help augmented reality grow
We’ve already told you about Juniper Research’s bullish forecasts of the augmented reality services. According to latest figures we have from the research company, the market for mobile enterprise applications featuring augmented reality elements is expected to exceed $300 million by 2015. Among the deployments that will help this grow, Juniper points to areas as…
Bees Being Killed by Cell Phone Signals?
A fresh study from the Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology is suggesting that the dramatic decline in the world’s honey bee population may be related to cell phone signals. This study observed the reactions of a hive of Carniolan honey bees when cell phones were off, on standby, or in an active call. During a…