We’re in the holiday season and you may be thinking what to buy to your men friends, colleagues and/or relatives. How about mobile apps? According to the survey conducted by MobileSquared and apps developer PacketVideo, that could be the gift for men with smartphones. The research has found out that almost 8 million of smartphone…
Berg Insight: With 2% of mobile network connections, machines are far from from taking over the world
Berg Insight has found that only 2% of the mobile network connections worldwide were used for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication at the end of 2010, growing 46% year-on-year to an estimated 81.4 million. In the next five years, the total number of wireless M2M connections is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 32.0% to…
ABI Research: Mobile will bring 3D to mainstream market
After In-Stat, ABI Research is also releasing a report on 3D technology on mobile phones. According to the research company, mobile devices may turn out to be the best form factor to bring 3D technology into mainstream markets. ABI believes that by 2015, smartphones, notebooks, mobile Internet devices and portable game players will comprise over…
Nimbuzz surveys its users: Folks like an all-in-one messaging app
Nimbuzz, the popular messaging and VoIP application, surveyed 40,000 of its users from Asia, Europe, the US and the Middle East to find out what they [users] think about the all-in-one messaging solution. As you can imagine, the majority of folks dig the idea. Here are some other points from Nimbuzz’s research: 75% of people…
ABI Research: U.S. mobile commerce to top $3.4 billion this year
Mobile shopping is getting trendier with the day. According to ABI Research, purchases attributed to mobile online shopping, excluding travel, grew from $396.3 million in 2008 to $1.4 billion in 2009! This year, that figure will surpass $3.4 billion while travel-related purchases (airline tickets, hotels, etc.) will add another $1.5 billion to the pile. The…
Android usage keeps rising on InMobi’s mobile ad network
InMobi’s October research findings suggest the obvious – the number of Android smartphone owners is on the rise. And it’s not just Android, overall there are more smartphones out there. Here are the highlights from InMobi’s report: Smartphone impressions are now majority (56%) of US mobile ad inventory. Smartphone share gains were driven mainly by…
Berg Insight: Mobile to account for 3.4% of global ad spend in 2015
Although mobile marketing industry keeps growing like crazy, it still accounts for just a fraction of the global ad spend. According to a new report from Berg Insight, the total value of the global mobile marketing and advertising market will grow from 1.7 billion EUR last year at a CAGR of 41% to 13.5 billion…
Callcredit: 1 in 8 UK adults plan to shop using their mobile this Christmas
Callcredit Information Group published a research suggesting that at least one in eight (12%) British adults are planning to shop from their phone this Christmas to avoid the rush in store. Men are driving the trend, as 54% say they will buy presents from their mobiles compared to 46% of women. The majority of these…
ABI Research: Emerging economies to fuel demand for entry-level handsets
As the world is rebounding from the economic downturn, emerging economies will fuel demand for entry-level handsets, according to the new report from ABI Research. The research company predicts that the shipments of ultra-low-cost handsets will grow to more than 360 million by 2015, representing a 2010-2015 CAGR of over 22%. At the same time,…
ChangeWave: Corporations embrace tablets
ChangeWave released results of its November survey which it conducted among 1,641 business IT buyers to give us a close-up look at first quarter corporate tablet demand. Overall the results are positive, with 7% of respondents saying their company provides employees with tablet devices — up 1-pt since the previous survey in August. Unsurprisingly, the…