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A new study suggests that your Apple iPhone apps may be a gigantic privacy hole, as your Unique Device IDs may be transmitted to a variety of third parties. The report comes out of Bucknell University and it said that 68% of the apps it studied sent out UDID information to servers from advertisers or…
A recent survey from Nielsen has revealed that Android has commanded the most sales for those who have bought a smartphone over the last six months. Though BlackBerry is still the king of the hill when it comes to overall market share, the gap with iOS is shrinking. Over the last six months, 32% of…
If you believe a spy shot leaked to our friends at PocketBerry, then YES, BlackBerry OS is in a particularly steady (if not steep) decline. The image you’re looking at above was snapped by an anonymous tipster, present at a T-Mobile U.S. east region meeting. The graph pretty much speaks for itself. Oh BlackBerry OS,…
Android 2.2, or Froyo, is definitely gaining market share as devices are finally getting their much-anticipated updates to the latest version of the Google mobile OS. As of the beginning of August, Froyo only accounted for 4.5% of all Android devices, with 2.1(Eclair) ruling the roost. Two months later, Froyo now is on 33.4% of…
ABI Research (and so do we) anticipates that the sensor-driven user interface will be an emergent theme in the “next wave of mobile UI innovation-turning objects, locations, and people into networked, interactive elements.” It’s really hard to argue against that forecast considering that by 2013, 85% of smartphones will ship with GPS, over 50% will…
We’ve heard a lot about the rapid ascension of Android, as Google’s mobile operating system recently outsold Apple iPhone and BlackBerry in the United States and many are predicting Android will be the second-largest mobile OS in the world. But part of this growth is because it was coming from no market share and a…
Another ChangeWave study shows that Android is still very much on the rise with consumer demand increasing. Additionally, customer satisfaction is equally high. Between June and September, the number of respondents surveyed who wanted Android on their new smartphone grew from 30% to 37%, pretty evident that the iPhone 4 didn’t do much to slow…
U.S. mobile local advertising revenues will increase from $213 million in 2009 to $2.02 billion in 2014, representing a CAGR of 56.9%, according to a newly released update to BIA/Kelsey’s U.S. Local Media Forecast (2009-2014). Among reasons quoted for growth, the research company cites smartphone penetration, mobile Web usage and related increases in ad inventory…
According to a new Juniper Research’s study, revenues from mobile content and applications in North America will reach $10 billion by 2015 – up from $4.0 billion in 2009. The North American Mobile Market report finds that despite the decline in mobile music, there will be significant growth in content and applications, such as mobile…
Android is steadily scaling the wall of almost every report we’ve seen lately, and the most recent report from the mobile ad network Millenial Media doesn’t show anything different for the smartphone OS made by search engine giant Google. Since January, Android’s mobile ad consumption has increased almost 1000%, thanks to the slew of new…