According to Juniper Research’s latest report titled “Mobile Ticketing for Transport Markets,” one in every seven bar coded boarding passes worldwide will be delivered to passengers’ mobile devices within 2 years. Translated into numbers, that’s 480 million mobile boarding passes, a significant rise from last year’s 160 million. The research company has found 30 airlines,…
Nanoparticles, silver ink, and 3D printing: The future of antennas
Grab a device like Nokia’s N8 and try to count the number of antennas there are inside. You’ve got 4 just for GSM/EDGE, 5 for 3G, 1 for Bluetooth, 1 for WiFi, and 1 for the FM radio. That’s a total of 12, and that number is only going to go up as innovations such…
Analysts say that by 2016 you’ll stream all your music [Some of us are already there]
This may sound a bit cliché, but music really is the one thing that brings us all together. Some of us still remember the days of dubbing our favorite tracks to a blank cassette tape and then later lugging around binders full of burned CDs. The invention of the MP3 file changed everything and today…
GetJar: Android to trump iPhone two-to-one
Mobile app store GetJar released data from their commissioned global survey, giving insight into the “preferences and attitudes of mobile phone users.” Unsurprisingly the results suggest we should put our money on Android with almost 40% of respondents saying they will switch to Google’s mobile platform when they purchase their next phone, compared to the…
Revenue from smartphone processors up 77% year on year [Qualcomm takes 41% for themselves]
Those tiny little chips that power our increasingly impressive smartphones are making several folks quite a bit of money. Analysts at Strategy Analytics say that in 2010 alone, revenue from smartphone processors hit $4.52 billion, an increase of 77% compared to last year. Who took the largest share of that pie? Qualcomm with 41%, followed…
research2guidance: UK mobile app download revenues reached 280 million GBP in 2010
According to a new study by research2guidance titled “UK Smartphone App Market Overview,” smartphone users in the UK downloaded over 860 million mobile applications in 2010 with 105 million downloads counting for paid apps. Revenue wise, that’s 280 million GBP for the UK’s total paid application downloads. The good news is that there is still…
Millennial Media February 2011 Mobile Mix report: Verizon’s iPhone takes 4.5% of U.S. iPhone impressions
Mobile ad network Millennial Media is out with February 2011 Mobile Mix report, highlighting the smartphone usage trends. Without further ado, here’s what they got: In the first two weeks following the launch, the Verizon iPhone represented 4.5% of all U.S. iPhone impressions on Millennial Media’s network. Samsung grew 50% month-over-month to reclaim the number…
Ohio State University figures out people read the news on their phone because they’re bored
When your out and about, running around town, and you have some time to kill while waiting in line or commuting, chances are you whip out your mobile phone and start catching up on what’s going on with your friends and around the world. This was always assumed to be the ultimate use case for…
TeleNav research: Walmart is the most searched business in the U.S.
Location-based services provider TeleNav released results of its annual usage data analysis identifying trends in Americans’ use of GPS technology. Unsurprisingly more and more folks are starting to use navigation capabilities of their phones to guide them along the Nation’s roadways, avoid traffic and to find their favorite destinations. Here are the results: Most searched…
In-Stat: There will be more than 375 million mobile payment users by 2015
Mobile payments are widely seen as a promising market and In-Stat predicts that by 2015, more than 375 million users will pay stuff using their mobile phones. That’s an increase from this year’s forecasted 116 million mobile payments users. According to market analyst Amy Cravens, there is a consumer demand for mobile payments. However due…