According to the even newer report on mobile betting from Juniper Research, consumer smartphone adoption has been a major driver in a resurgent European mobile gambling sector. The research company forecasts that the user numbers are expected to rise by more than 60% in 2010, with more than 2 million sports book customers in Europe…
mBlox survey shows US still lags behind the UK in adoption of mobile services
Mobile transaction network mBlox released the results of its consumer research, revealing almost 90% of consumers prefer multi-channel options for interacting with businesses. Among the communication methods consumers like is SMS, which is seen as a handy tool for reminders and coupons. In terms of the SMS adoption, 59% of UK and 17% of US…
comScore: Japanese people use the mobile web the most, Europeans are SMS addicts
In a survey done by comScore, sample size unknown, some startling results were found between the differences of how the Japanese, Europeans, and Americans use their mobile devices. You’d think that because mobile phones are so limited in what they can do that everyone, everywhere, would be doing the exact same thing, but you’d be…
1 in 3 High School Students Want the iPhone as Their Next Device
Ah, high school. Didn’t everyone just love those days? No? I sure did, but I didn’t have the worries that today’s high schoolers do – like choosing a smartphone that won’t get them ostracized by friends. One fool-proof gadget that will guarantee social acceptance is the iPhone. Sure, BlackBerry is wildly popular as a messaging…
comScore: Smartphone users are majority of mobile browser and application users in U.S.
comScore is out with a new report on mobile application and browser usage among smartphone subscribers in the U.S. The study found that the number of smartphone users accessing mobile content through browsers and applications now surpasses that of non-smartphone users — in the 3 month average ending August 2010, smartphone subscribers made up 60%…
Are your Apple iPhone apps privacy risks?
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…
Android Most Popular Smartphone Platform in Last Six Months – Survey
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…
T-Mobile: BlackBerry OS Popularity in Steady Decline
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,…
Google sees Android 2.2 Froyo taking a bigger slice of the pie
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: Sensors will add functions to smartphones by 2013
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…