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The bean counters over at Strategy Analytics have some new wisdom to share with the world now that most everyone has posted their Q4 2010 financial results. In terms of smartphones, 94 million of them shipped in the three months between October and December of last year. That’s an astonishing 75% increase compared with the…
Location-based service provider Telmap launched its first Metrics Report to look at local search, mapping and navigation usage and activity conducted through Telmap based solutions. This first report summarizes Q4 2010, revealing such things as: During the period users relied on Telmap’s navigation in more than 100 countries, through more than 400 million kilometers. To…
Buoyed by the success of the Apple App Store, Gartner predicts that the worldwide app store revenue forecast for 2011 will surpass $15 billion. That’s a major increase from 2010, where revenues were expected to total about $5.2 billion. “Many are wondering if the app frenzy we have been witnessing is just a fashion, and,…
It doesn’t exactly take a genius to figue this out, but the analysts at In-Stat are predicting that over half the mobile phones that will ship in the US in 2012 will be smartphones. Most of them will run Google’s Android operating system, which again, isn’t a surprise since there are multiple Android powered handsets…
A new report from Appcelerator and IDC suggest that app developers are still eying Apple iOS first but Android and tablets are becoming an increasingly important part of the equation. Thanks to the introduction of devices like the Motorola Xoom and tablets like the G Slate, developer interest in Android tablets have jumped 12 points…
RBC Capital Markets did a survey of some 1000-odd consumers at CES, where 6% said they were likely to buy a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Although that might not sound like much, RBC’s Mike Abramsky said the data backed up his estimate that RIM would sell six million PlayBooks in fiscal 2011, or four million in…
If you wondered why you need a tablet, In-Stat thinks they have an answer. According to their research, most folks — whether they already have or plan to buy a tablet — use the device for email, personal information management and multimedia consumption (audio, video and gaming). When you think about it – you don’t…
Believe it or not, there’s money to be made in ringback tone advertising. Sure I’ve heard that those annoying messages you hear while the phone you’re calling is still in use work for some companies, but I never envisioned it to be a multi-hundred million dollar business. As a matter of fact, Juniper Research predicts…
The headline says it all, folks. Or does it? A recent study shows that users with the little green robot on their phones are more likely to upgrade to another Android device than an iPhone user is to upgrade to another iPhone. This may come as a surprise to some, but when you think about…
It’s not much of a surprise, but IDC is saying that the Apple iPad dominated tablet sales for 2010 by grabbing nearly 90% of the market. The IDC report said it expected there would be 17 million tablet sales for 2010 (full data is just trickling in) and the Apple iPad accounted for 87.4% of…