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Moto Droid Smartphone Out-Sold iPhone in 1st 74 Days, Nexus One Lags, Says Flurry
Analytics firm, Flurry can detect and count unique devices in the market such as Google Nexus One and Motorola Droids.Flurry estimated both sales of Nexus One Sales compared to Motorola Droid and the first generation iPhone, among others.The chart above...
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Smartphone & Cell Phone Users Want More Control Over Mobile Messaging, Says Acision Study
An Acision study reveals that mobile phone users in North America would like to have .more control over mobile messaging. Users want to have control over the messages they receive, and parents would like to be able to blacklist numbers...
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iPhones Used More on Nights and Weekends, Says Localytics
iPhone apps are usually used in the evening and on the weekend notes an hourly study of iPhone app analytics data by Localytics. Mobile app usage in the US and Canada peaked at 9:00 pm EST during the week...
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Smartphone Use All Over the Place, Interested in Mobile Coupons and Barcodes, Says Compete
New Compete data is tracking how smartphones are integrated into the daily lives of all types of consumers which bodes well for mobile marketing, especially mobile coupons, Consumers' primary usage of their smartphones is for reasons of personal productivity and...
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BlackBerry Top Smartphone, Moto Top Maker, Says comScore
comScore MobiLens released their finding for October 2009 and January 2010. Motorola was the top handset maker (22.9 percent market share), while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 43.0 percent market share. The two most popular uses for phones was...
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Mobile Touchscreen Sales Will Grow 97 Percent in 2010, Says Gartner
The worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will surpass 362.7 million units in 2010, a 96.8 percent increase from 2009 sales of 184.3 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2013, touchscreen mobile devices will account for 58 percent of...
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Consumers Want iPad for Web Surfing, Email and Reading Books, Says ChangeWave
A ChaneWave survey says that iPad will give other readers a hit and that there is huge prelaund demand. The iPad is expected have a major impact on the e-Reader, laptop and home entertainment markets. The iPad however is expected...
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Smartphone Owners "Get No Satisfaction," Says Fanfare
Fanfare research shows that smartphone owners are having problems with application glitches, compatibility issues, crashing, and freezing and don't understand why. They are not sure if the problems are related to the handset, network, or applications. Over half of respondents...
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iPhone and QWERTY Top Devices for Mobile Ads, Says Millennial
Millennial Media has released their January Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting (SMART). It offeres new insights into breakout campaign destination trends including m-Commerce, Social Media and Site Search and Campaign Effectiveness by Ad Vertical, supplied to us by...
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Verizon More Trusted for Privacy than AT&T, Reports Ponemon
When it comes to privacy whom does the public trust? Last year, they trusted Facebook and eLoans. according to the Ponemon Institute's annual Most Trusted Companies for Privacy Study. It is the fifth consecutive year that American Express earned the Most...
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iPhoners Download More Paid Apps than Android an' Droiders, Says AdMob
AdMob has released their January 2010 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. iPhone and Android users are alike in regarded to how much time they spend using apps, while iPhoners download more paid apps. Highlights from the survey and the January 2010...
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Windows Phone and Android Paid Game Apps Cost the Most, Says Distimo
Distimo's latest report foucsed on Games in Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace for Mobile in the United States. Android and Windows Phone users pay more for games than BlackBerry, Nokia...
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Android an' Mobile Wi-Fi Use at Hotspots Increased, Says JiWire
JiWire, released its Q4 2009 Mobile Audience Insights Report. The report looks at device use, consumer adoption of Wi-Fi and browsing behavior of people who access the Internet in public locations such as airports, hotels and cafés. Nearly half of...
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AT&T and iPhone Have Fastest 3G Network Speeds, Droid Fastest Second Runner, Says PC World
PC World has published their latest test of 3G speed for all the major carriers including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. It looks like AT&T's improvement to its network has worked. AT&T's average download speed was 1410 kbps, followed...
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BlackBerry & iPhone Dominate Smartphone Market, Positive Notes, Notes Gartner
Gartner has publihsed their worldwide mobile report. Although there was a slight decline in total sales and single digit growth, the market is considered positive due to increased strong smartphone growth and low-end handset sales. RIM's BlackBerry was 19.9% and...
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Call Quality Down for Smartphones, Verizon High Customer Rankings, Says J.D. Power
While smartphone customers have continued to grow during the past six months, call quality performance has declined, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study-Volume 1.The study finds that, after several consecutive six-month reporting periods...
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Smartphones, Apps, LTE, NFC and Android, Top Topics at MWC, Says Juniper
Juniper reports that content is king about Mobile World Congress. Their top topic and trends include smartphone launches, apps markets, LTE, NFC (Near Field Communications /Payments) and Android.SmartphonesFlurry of launches to increase competition in the Smartphone space Smartphone launches from...
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Mobile Users Want Smarter Personlized Services, Says Nielsen Study
Mobile phone users want smart personalized services notes a new study. They expect to get their services not from their phone carriers but other sources and more readily indentify with third party services.A survey, undertaken by Nielsen Research and commissioned...
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1/2-1/3 Time on Mobile Phone by Foot and Transit Commuters, Says NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ, has revealed the results of a new global research study designed to assess the appeal of mobile navigation among consumers given their current knowledge and use of navigation applications via mobile phone. The study identified 4 distinct behavioral motivators...
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YouTube 10% of Bandwidth, Facebook Grows, Skype Top VoIP, P2P Congests
Allot Communications' Allot MobileTrends: Global Mobile Broadband Traffic Report shows that worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage has increased significantly by approximately 72% during the second half of 2009. The report also reveals YouTube is taking up a lot bandwidth,...
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Teen Text 3,146 @Month 10 Texts a Hr - Costs Less than a Penny
Nielsen has noticed the massive use of texting by teens. American teenagers are using 3,146 messages a month, which translates into more than 10 messages every hour of the month that they are not sleeping or in school. Even the...
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BlackBerry Top Smartphone, Moto Top Cell Maker, Android Growing Fast, Says ComScore
The comScore MobiLens for September and December 2009. has been released. The report showed Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer with 23.5 percent market share. RIM's BlackBerry smartphones had the lead in smartphone platforms with 41.6 percent market share....
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25% of Game Developers Developing 4 Smartphones, Says Game Developer Research
Game Developer Research published its latest report, the 2009/2010 State of Game Development Survey, revealing among other things a surge of iPhone developers and a lull in those making games for the Wii. The results of the comprehensive 55 question...
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Verizon Tops J.D. Power's Customer Care Study, Carriers Score Higher with Higher Featured Plan Customers
Customer care performance scores are considerably higher among wireless customers with additional plan features and Verizon ranked highest in the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study- Volume 1. J.D. Power goes into all the details...
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iPad-like Media Tablets to Reach 57 Million Annually, Says ABI
The high-profile launch by Apple last week of its long-rumored iPad tablet computing device highlights the real start of a new market segment for media tablets that according to analysts at ABI Research will see four million units shipped...
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Obama's Stimulus Helped Stimulate Expansive Mobile Market, Says ABI
ABI Research confirmed IDC's belief that the world mobile handset market improved. Nokia maintained it's lead followed by Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Motorola."2009 may have started with a whimper but by 4Q-2009 the global mobile handset market ended with...
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Mobile Phones Rebound, Nokia Sells More Smartphones and Moto Shipped 2 Million Android an' Droid Devices
Nokia still leads the world mobile phone market, followed by Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Nokia increased their smartphone sales while Samsung grew from its converged mobile devices with its Omnia II. LG profited from their enV and Android...
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EA, Gameloft, Glue and Namco Bandai, Top Mobile Game Publishers, Says SNL Kagan
Mobile game publishers grossed nearly $540 million in top-line revenue in the U.S. in 2009, up at a 12% CAGR from $382 million in 2006, according to a new study from SNL Kagan, "Economics of Mobile Games." In "Economics of...
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BlackBerry Apps Cost More than Other Apps, Says Distimo
Distimo has released it app store report. They found that most Android developers are in the US, Europeans pay more for their apps, BlackBerry apps are the most expensive and WinMo apps are not available in all countries due to...
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3.6 Billion Apps in 2009 to Grow to 16.2 in 2013, Says Futuresource
Mobile application stores are revitalising the mobile content market, with 3.6 billion apps downloaded from app stores in 2009, expected to rise to 6.6 billion this year, and growing to 16.2 billion in 2013, according to a new strategic report...
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BlackBerry Curve 8330 Top US Smartphone, Google Top Website and Facebook Favorite of World, Says Opera
Opera Mini usage gives us a snapshot of the the world's mobile use, showing favorite websites and smartphones. Facebook and Google have become super populart. Unique users of Facebook grew more than 600% during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte,...
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iPhone Top OS for AdMob Traffic, Android Traffic Jumped, Says Admob
AdMob released its December 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report on regional changes in manufacturer and smartphone Operating System (OS) share. Remember AdMob data is based on the usage of mobile sites and apps, which is very different than if you were...
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Majority of 8-18 Yr-Olds Own Cell Phones & Spend More Time Listening to Music, Gaming and TV Watching than Talking
A Kaiser Family Foundation study, found that 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of...
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8/10 Apps Free, 4.5 Billion Apps Downloaded, $6.2 Billion in 2010, Says Gartner
Gartner Analysts said mobile app stores will exceed 4.5 billion downloads in 2010, eight out of ten of which will be free to end users. Consumers will spend $6.2 billion in 2010 in mobile apptores while advertising revenue is expected...
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Symbian Top Phone Top Ad Performer, iPhone Out-Performs WinMo, Android, Palm and BlackBerry, Says Smaato
Symbian phones were the best performers followed by iPhone, Windows Mobile, Feature Phones and Android in the Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics. BlackBerry came in last. The Smaato Metrics show Click Through Rate (CTR) Index by handset operating system "The Smaato...
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51% of Consumers Used Mobile Phones During Shopping for Info, Deals, and Comparisons
Motorola annual research study of holiday shoppers identified that more than half (51 percent) of consumers across 11 countries used their mobile phones for in-store activities such as comparison shopping and getting peer feedback, product information and coupons, which signals...
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Cell Phones Best Change for Better (BlackBerry and iPhones Too) Says Pew
Members of the Millennial generation are enthusiastic about the technological and communication advances of the past decade according to a new study by Pew Research Center for the Press. Cell phones where shown as one of the best innovations of...
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Cell Phone Ownership by Children (Kids) up 68% in Five Years, Says, MRI
Cell phone ownership among children has increased 68% in the past five years, according to MRI's recently-released American Kids Study. Twenty percent of U.S. children ages 6-11 currently own a cell phone, up from 11.9% of children in 2005....
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Smartphone Owners Buy But Mobi-Shy, Says Compete
Compete, a Kantar Media company, released the results of its quarterly Smartphone Intelligence survey showing that smartphone owners are more comfortable buying from their handsets, but that poor mobile site functionality is still a turn-off for many. Their research does...
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Big Jump in Android Use Due to Droid, iPhone Satisfaction Still High, Says ChangeWave
Recent ChangeWave data shows a major upturn in Android an' Droid interest and use. It also reveals the great surge in smartphone growth and a downturn for future Apple iPhone marketshare with iPhone still maintain high customer satisfaction.ChangeWave's December 9-14...
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Angelenos Txt in Taboo Places- on D8s, Dining and @ Church
Even though texting while driving is illegal in Los Angeles, Samsung Mobile results of a local market survey revealed that not only do 80 percent of Los Angeles cell phone users text but that they're doing it everywhere. According to...
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MEF Predicts 33% Growth in Mobile Media in 20102 and More Innovation
The Mobile Entertainment Forum made some smart predictions last year at this time. They predicted the growth of mobile apps, proliferation of touchscreens. This years MEF sees a capping of heavy data by carriers, more innovation, regulations, more media and...
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Mobile Predictions for 2010 from Millenial Media Include 100M Mobile UU @ Month and Apps Competiton
Millennial Media released its Top 10 Mobile Predictions for 2010. They call it the "Top 10 in 10." Based off of a compilation of observed consumer behaviors, advertiser and industry data, technology and device trends and campaign analysis pulled from...
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Top Mobile Phones in US Revealed by Nielsen - iPhone,/BlackBerry Top List
Nielsen studies television viewing and now is finding out all sorts of information about cell phone sand smartphones. About one of every seven American households (15%) owns at least one smartphone, according to survey findings from Nielsen's. Nielsen's top mobile...
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Girls Just Wanna' Get Cash, Laptops and Cell Phones, Says Fashion Fantasy
Teens and tween girls want things like cash, laptops and a news shiny cell phones for the holidays found a recent study. Cash is queen among teen and tween girls according to survey of more than 2,500 young women by...
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1.2 Billion Mobile Devices Shipped in 2009, Says ABI Research
2009 will see a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices shipped, according to the latest data from ABI Research. That includes all categories of wireless devices including cellular handsets, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), netbooks, mobile consumer electronics products, and cellular...
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Android #2 OS, iPhone Tops Charts, Says AdMob
The latest AdMob Metrics report shows an increasing usage of Wi-Fi, an explosion of Android use after the launch of Droid, and an increase in "other" Wi-Fi devices.In November 2009 in the US, smartphones accounted for 48 percent of mobile...
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Mobile Phone and Netbook Markets Promising, Says TNS
TNS, released results of its annual Global Telecoms and Insight Study. The study was comprised of over 24,000 consumers in 35 markets. The study shows strong promise for the mobile phone market in 2010 with 53% of Americans (55% Canada)...
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Mobile Internet Could Surpass Desktop, Says Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley has release "The Mobile Internet Report." "We believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within five years," said Mary Meeker, leader of Morgan Stanley's global tech research team. Here are the...
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Android Invades iPhone Universe: Androiders Love Mobile Media, 18% Plan to Buy BlackBerry Pearl, Says comScore
comScore is keeping score on the mobile space. Android is gaining momentum, more people are considering buying an Android phone, while 18% of those surveyed intend to buy a BlackBerry Pearl.comScore, Inc. released, Android: Crashing the Smartphone Party. Among the...
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2010 to Show 9% Increase in Mobile Devices, Says Gartner
Worldwide mobile device sales to end users will be 1.214 billion units, a 0.67 per cent decline from 2008, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. In September, Gartner had forecast sales to decline 3.7 per cent in 2009....
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iPhone Owners Younger than BlackBerry Owners, Similiar $ & Income Demographic, Says Nielsen
Nielsen has posted their webinar, "2009 Media and Communications Trends - Ways to Win in Today's Challenging Economy" that has many insights to mobile technology trends and demographics.For smartphone usage - BlackBerry has 8% penetration, iPhone has 4% penetration, other...
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Txt MSG 2x+ in US, Says U.S. Census, $50 Average Cell Phone Bill
The number of text messages sent on cell phones has more than doubled from 48 billion in 2007 to 110 billion in 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010.Other mobile releted facts...
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Mobile Users Want Facebook and Google Most, Says Strategy Analytics
Mobile phone buyers desire the ability to access Google and Facebook from their mobile devices in 2009. In "Facebook and Google Most Desired Brands for Mobile," Strategy Analytics investigated interest in the ability to use various applications from mobile devices....
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AT&T Has Fastest Network, Data May Show iPhone Faults
As AT&T and Verizon f duke out their superiority, independent research, showed that AT&T is really faster. Recent Root Wireless data showed that in areas where AT&T has 3G wireless coverage, the AT&T network is faster than any of the...
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More Sophisticated Prepaid Use Coming to US, Says NMRC
Prepaid is getting more attention as prepaid cell phone companies are introducing more sophisticated handsets that can be embraced by younger text- and Web-oriented wireless customers, according to New Millennium Research (NMRC) executive director Allen Hepner.Hepner, said that the arrival...
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Mobile Internet Use to Explode to 1B by 2013, Says IDC
There were more than 450 million mobile Internet users worldwide in 2009, a number that is expected to more than double by the end of 2013. Driven by the popularity and affordability of mobile phones, smartphones, and other wireless devices,...
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70% of Women Want to Play Mobile Game Apps, Says New Samsung Study
Samsung unveiled the results of a new survey into consumers' mobile software demands, providing unique insights into the opportunities available for the growing developer community across the world. Almost half (42%) of current feature phone users surveyed would pay to...
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Mobile Users Go GaGa & Megan Fox with Mobile Search, Says Yahoo
Yahoo! has released data on their top mobile searches in 2009. In 2009, one in four Americans used a mobile device to access the Internet every month. It's no surprise that Michael Jackson was a "hot mobile topic" on June...
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All Generations Engage in NextGen Connections, Says Moto
There's been a shift in consumer influence that hasn't been widely recognized yet: Age no longer dictates a consumer's willingness or ability to use media technology or services. All generations - Millennials (75 percent), Gen Xers (74 percent) and Boomers...
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Droid Apps News 2Day: Android Developers "Can't Get No Satisfaction," Says Skyhook
Skyhook Wireless released an Android developers satisfaction study. The study found that developers are frustrated with low download volumes, poor marketplace design and discovery options, and lack of an effective consumer billing system. These factors make it difficult for developers...
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3.8% of Cyber Monday Shoppers via Mobile, 96.5 Million Cyber Monday Shoppers, Says NRF
The National Retail Federation expects a great Cyber Monday. According to a survey conducted for Shop.org by BIGresearch, 96.5 million Americans plan to shop on Cyber Monday this year, up from 85 million in 2008. 3.8 percent of Cyber Monday...
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Shopping by Mobile Phone Surges in Searches & Payments on Black Friday, Will Grow on Cyber Monday and Beyond
While many of you were shopping for new mobile and smartphones on Black Friday, those who bought high-powered smartphones previously were busy shopping on their mobile phones. Black Friday, Weekend and Cyber Monday sales are still available for more information...
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iPhoners Love and Buy Digital Content, Says Olswang
Users of the Apple iPhone are among the heaviest users of digital content and are also more willing than any other consumer to pay for a wide range of types of content, according to findings in this year's Olswang Convergence...
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Meteoric Growth of Droid Shown in AdMob Metrics
The meteoric growth of Droid is shown in AdMob's latest metrics on November 18th, the Droid already represented 24% of the traffic in our Android network and the Motorola CLIQ generated 6% of Android requests. In the AdMob latest report...
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Touchscreen Smartphones Account for 39% of Network Volume, Says Bytemobile
Bytemobile issued its first mobile data report for the industry. The Mobile Minute Metrics report anonymously sources the data traffic in a global cross-section of larger Bytemobile customers' wireless networks and provides insight into the current state of the mobile...
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Money, LBS, Search, Lead Top 10 Apps for 2012, Says Gartner
On the heels of the Xiam study that showed search as the top sites on mobile today, it looks like money will be tops in 2012. The top 10 consumer mobile apps in 2012 will include mobile money transfer, LBS, ...
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Mobile Users Aren't Finding Satisfaction in Search, Says Xiam
Users rely on search engines to discover content but it often doesn't come up with the goods notes a new Mobile Content Discovery Report from Xiam Research by TNS Global. Users are have having trouble accessing content, getting in quickly,...
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60% of Internet-Connected Devices Sold Through Carriers in 2013, Says In-Stat
Carriers are becoming a significant channel for all Internet-connected mobile devices, including netbooks and mobile PCs, because of the revenue potential of the associated services. In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com) anticipates that the number of devices sold through the carriers will continue to...
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64.8 Million Mobile Web Users at 4:46 Minutes a Pop, Says Millenial
Mobile web use and app use is growing. Here's a quick summary of fun facts from the Millennial Media October SMART report : The U.S. Mobile Web: Grew to 1.1% to 64.8M users, according to Nielsen. Apple surpassed Android and...
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Droid News: 250,000 Droids Sold 1st Week - iPhone Contender, Says Flurry
Mobile analytics firm, Flurry, has tracked Droid sales to be 250,000 in its first week which they calll a strong result for Motorola and Verizon. Although it was not as spectacular as the iPhone 3G, it showed the Droid...
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Classical Music Taste - Genetic, Country Taste Is Learned, Says Kings College and Nokia
A study by Nokia into the musical tastes of nearly 4,000 twins reveals genetic influences on the music people like varies with genre. Yes, your music taste is genetic. Country music-love is less genetic and comes more from training in...
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Smartphones Will Be 60% of Handset Sales in 2014, Says Pyramid
Pyramid Research just published its Q3 2009 Handset Forecasts that show a dramatic increase in demand for smartphones. RIM which has 50% of the current smartphone marekt especially at Verizon. Pyramid estimate smartphones will represent 31% of new handsets sold...
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Mobi-Net, Data Plans and Smartphones will Boost Demand for Paid Mobile Content, Says eMarketer
eMarketer has released their take on the future of the mobile content, the demand will grow, mobile web access will skyrocket, and mobile content providers should have learned from the web to pursue paid content.Over the next several years,...
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Nokia, BlackBerry, iPhone Lead Smartphones New Record Set, Says IDC
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the worldwide converged mobile device (aka smartphone) market reached a new record for shipments during a single quarter. Vendors shipped a total of 43.3 million units during the third quarter of 2009...
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iPhone, LG Dare, LG Voyager, BlackBerry Storm and Palm Treo Top Touchscreens, Says comScore
comScore, Inc released a study of touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the U.S.and touchscreen phone adoption is growing rapidly. iPhone, LG Dare, LG Voyager (which also has a keyboard) BlackBerry Storm and Palm Treo top the list. The LG Dare...
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30% Say Mobile Indispensable, Says Millennial Media
Mobile advertising network, Millennial Media and DM2PRO.com, collaborated to explore of attitudes and spending plans of leading agencies and brands. The responses resulted in the development of "State of the Industry: Mobile Advertising". CPG, Retail, Entertainment, Travel and Restaurant categories...
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HTC Touch Pro2, Droid, Cliq, BlackBerry Help Fuel Positive Wireless Outlook
The fourth quarter releases of smartphones including Android and BlackBerry, along with the success of the HTC Touch Pro2 are helping fuel a positive outlook for the wireless market in Q4. We talked with senior research analyst Ramon Llamas at...
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PC Vendors Aim at Smartphone Market, Says Gartner
Personal computer (PC) vendors are eyeing up the booming smartphone market to offset a slump in computer sales, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide smartphone sales will grow by 29 per cent year-over-year to reach 180 million units in 2009,...
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iPhone, G1, Messager, and Palm Pre Top AdMob Charts Due to Wi-Fi?
AdMob's latest metrics show explosive mobile web and application usage over the past two years.The report highlights the rapid growth in usage of mobile websites and applications on new devices in the past year. In September 2008, the Motorola RAZR...
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Porti-Game Growth Driven to $11.7 Billion by iPhone/iPod, Says DFC Intelligence
DFC Intelligence predicts the worldwide market for portable and mobile games is expected to grow to $11.7 billion by 2014. The primary driver of this growth is expected to be the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch systems. By 2014, sales...
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Banks Don't Andress Mobile Banking Concerns, Says Javelin
Javelin Strategy & Research issued a new report that reveals that banks' marketing efforts are not keeping pace with their actual mobile-banking services, and the imbalance is causing limited adoption of mobile-banking by consumers. Javelin's observations come from a study...
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60% of Teens Admit to Reading Txt While Driving, Says Vlingo
Teens have very distracted driving habits according to second annual Vlingo Consumer Mobile Messaging Habits Report The Vlingo report finds 60 percent of teens admit to reading incoming text messages while driving. Text messaging has overtaken the phone as the...
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2.5 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Chipset 2 Ship in 2014, Says ABI
The first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) products are already lining up, ahead of a specification ratified by the Bluetooth SIG. According to a recent study from ABI Research, the BLE market will develop in two very separate stages. How well...
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Mobile Website Visitors Encounter Problems, Says Gomez
Gomez examined consumers' mobile Web experiences and expectations, in a study conducted by Equation Research on behalf of Gomez. The survey of 1001 mobile Web users found that: Two out of three have encountered problems when accessing websites on their...
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Mobile Broadband Search & Display Ad Revs Will Grow 2 $4.2 Billion, Says Coda
Newly released forecasts by technology and media specialist Coda Research Consultancy show that mobile broadband search and display ad revenues in the US will grow to US$4.2bn in 2015, up from US$1bn in 2010....
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iPhone Top Smartphone, Then LG & BlackBerry - LG Top Handset Reports JD Power
Smartphone satisfaction is improving while mobile phone satisfaction is decreasing according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Wireless Consumer Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study-Volume 2 and the 2009 Wireless Business Smartphone Satisfaction Study. iPhone leads for both business and consumer...
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Services and Apps Most VIP in Mobile Selections, Says SEVEN
SEVEN, released results from its semi-annual user community survey. Of the more than 1,000 global subscribers who completed the online survey, the majority ranked services and applications as the key drivers in selecting a device, while device form factor and...
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Power for Power Phone Features Growing Faster than Battery Power, Says IMS
Current, mobile handset power requirements are growing at a faster rate than handset battery capacity can handle reports IMS Research. The gap between power available to users and the power need for power handset features threatens to slow the...
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Working Moms Spend 21% More on Wireless Bills, Says Scarborough/Neilsen
According to a report from Scarborough Research in partnership with The Nielsen Company and Arbitron, working moms are among the country's highest spenders on cellular phone services, spending 21% more than the average cellular user on their wireless bills monthly...
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Global App Market $4.66 Billion in 2009, Says Wireless Expertise
The number of smartphones sold each year will increase from around 165.2 million in 2009 to 422.96 million in 2013, with the total number of smartphone users approaching 1.6 billion, according to Wireless Expertise, a wireless market research and consulting...
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1 in 4 Leave Phone Retail Store w/o Buying, Failed Sales Could be Avoided with Better Customer Service, Says Amdocs
An Amdocs survey explored what influences the customer experience when shopping at retail stores, along with brand perceptions. Despite the option to purchase devices and plans online, consumers are still choosing to visit service providers' retail outlets. The top three reasons...
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Ringtone Market Ringing in Decline, Says IBISWorld
The music ringtone market is within the decline stage of its short life cycle, according to industry research firm IBISWorld. The company forecasts industry revenue to decline for the second consecutive year - down 15 percent from its $880 million...
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Green Handset Shipments will Grow, Says Juniper
Juniper Research predicts consumer demand for environmentally sustainable mobile devices will be the primary driver behind the growth of green handsets. Green handsets global shipments could grow to 485 million units by 2014. With a number of challenges facing vendors...
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63% of Smartphone Doctors Use iPhone / BlackBerry / Smartphone Medical Apps
Doctors are taking to iPhone, BlackBerry and smartphone apps. According to the MDsearch.com Smartphone Survey, 53% of physician respondents own a smartphone and 63% of those physicians are using mobile medical applications. They found that drug reference apps (like Epocrates)...
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AM-OLED Market Exploding, Says iSuppli
OLED displays, make images on cellphones jump of the devices and the market for them is growing rapidly. Triggered by the introduction this year of a wave of cell phones equipped with main displays using Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode (AM-OLED)...
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World LBS Revs More than $14 Billion, Says ABI
ABI Research predicts Location Based Services revenues to grow at 156% from $1.7 billion in 2008 to $2.6 billion in 2009. By 2014 global LBS revenues will have surpassed $14 billion....
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WiFi Users Plan to Buy Stuff and Travel - iPod/Phone Tops for Wi-Fi
JiWire released its Mobile Audience Insights Report that shows demographic and behavioral interests of Wi-Fi users. Wi-Fi users are rich, travel and buy a lot of tech stuff. The café Wi-Fi audience also reported that 38 percent make an online...
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World Wide Analog Mobile TV to Grow 6x to 300 Million by 2013
Telegent Systems and In-Stat reported a worldwide user base of 54 million mobile TV consumers in 2009 and predicts 6x growth to 300 million users by 2013 . "The adoption of analog mobile TV handsets has been driven by the...
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Feature Phones Featured in 72% Mobile Phones Sales enV2 & Rant Tops, Says NPD Group
The NPD Group reports, feature phones still rule the U.S. market, even as smartphone sales increased their share of overall handset sales. NPD's Mobile Phone Track information revealed that unit-sales of new feature phones fell 5 percentage points to 72...
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Weaker World Mobile Phone Sales but Smartphone 27% Higher in Q2, Says Gartner
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1 per cent decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales surpassed 40 million units, a 27 per cent increase...
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Apps Are the Key to Data Rev Growth, Says iSuppli
The explosive growth in wireless data service revenues, mobile applications and smartphone device unit shipments during the past two years is spurring a dramatic shift for the global cell phone industry says Dr. Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst with...
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Smartphone Apps to Reach 6.67 Billion in 2014, Says Frost and Sullivan
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's An Insight into the U.S. Smartphone Application Storefront Market, finds that smartphone downloads from all app stores will reach 6.67 billion in 2014. The market segments covered in this research include prepaid and...
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Handsets Are Low-End and Smart, Middle is Squeezed, Says Juniper
The mobile handset market is getting more polarized between low cost handsets for emerging markets and high-end smartphones for developed regions - with the mid-range handset market being squeezed, notes new research from Juniper Research.Low-cost handsets and smartphones will together...
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The Worst is Over in Mobile, Says Chetan Sharma
Although the worst is over in mobile, prepaid subscribers, may stay in prepaid lane, and carriers will need a multi-prong approx to accommodate the increased data load. Chetan Sharma looke at a lot of data in his latest report. There’s...
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Android and IPhone Apps Prices Close Except for Reference, Says Distimo
The Distimo Report, July 2009 is now available and for download and covers the Apple App Store and Google Android Market. Starting this month, they reported on cross app store trends. Pricing of applications in the Apple App Store and...
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Mobile Market 2009 Will Decline 13% Says IDC
There was another year-over-year decline in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09) for the worldwide global handset market. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 269.6 million units worldwide, down 10.8% from 302.2...
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Young Adults Find Wireless Apps & Social-Net Essential, Says Sprint
According to a new study from Sprint, more than 80 percent of young adults (18-34) cite their wireless phone as their "lifeline" to others. Email, texting, apps, social-networking and price are all important purchase options. In a tech-heavy world, relying...
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Unlimited Monthly Subs for Video Download 25x More, Says Versaly
Versaly Entertainment, showed results of its first half of 2009 sales for video downloads in the United States. Versaly's video-on-demand clips are distributed through its Vmbc.tv mobile video syndication network. The results clearly show subscription downloads outperforming pay-per-downloads. Of all...
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In PrePaid Rankings NET10 Ranked Highest, Says JD Power
According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 U.S. Wireless Prepaid Customer Satisfaction Index Study, Prepaid carrier NET10 ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction among non-contract wireless user. The study also showed an increase in monthly plan services, pay-as-you-go has...
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GPS Smartphone Shipments to Grow to 77 Million, Says Strategy Analytics.
Worldwide GPS smartphone shipments will grow 34 percent from 57 million units in 2008 to 77 million units in 2009, reports the latest research from Strategy Analytics GPS adoption in smartphones is being fueled by widespread consumer acceptance of portable...
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2Q Handset Shipments Bode Well, Says ABI
2Q-2009 resultsshow a better outlook for handsets, notes a new report from ABI Research. “269 million handsets were shipped in 2Q-2009,” says Jake Saunders, VP for Forecasting at ABI Research. “That bodes well for 2H-2009. Shipments should build sequentially in...
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Over 10 Billion Mobile Pages Served in 1 Mo., Says Opera
Opera Mini users viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month for the first time, according to the State of the Mobile Web report by Opera. .In June 2009, Opera Mini had nearly 26.5 million unique consumer users, a...
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Ringtones Ringing Sales Relate to Celeb Gossip, Deaths, & Marriages
Rringtone sales are effected by celebrity news and gossip. For example, when it was announced that the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch had cancer, his ringtone sales jumped 64 percent. Zed, a leading digital entertainment company, analyzed sales of ringtones from...
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Mobile Web Access Grows, Breaking-Up with Cell Phones Hard to Do, Says Pew
A new Pew study shows that mobile access to the internet is growing. An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project shows that 56% of adult Americans have accessed the internet by wireless means,...
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54% of iPhones Users Are in U.S., Says Ad Mob
AdMob, looked at the geographic distribution of iPhone OS users in its June 2009 Mobile Metrics Report. AdMob's latest report estimated the number of iPhone and iPod touch devices in various countries. Highlights from the June 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report:54...
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It's Not Easy Being Mobile Web...Says Nielsen Norman Group
In studies conducted by the Nielsen Norman Group, researchers found that the average success rate for users completing tasks on the mobile Internet was 59 percent compared to an average success rate of 80 percent for websites accessed on a...
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iPhone #1 for Mobile Ad Reach, Says Millennial Media
Millennial Media's Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting (SMART) for June has been released with new figures. The iPhone remained number one handset, while the Samsung Instinct came in at number two which many believe is due to the...
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Bulk Apps Bulk Up App Stores, Says Skyhook
Skyhook Wireless, released its July report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace, Blackberry App World, Nokia's Ovi Store, and the Palm App Catalog. The report shows the evolution of LBS app pricing in the...
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BlackBerry App World Works Well, Payment Barrier, Says Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics', "BlackBerry App World Works Well But Payment Approach Represents Barrier to Use," evaluated the recently launched BlackBerry application store. Target users evaluated the core aspects of the application store experience including overall navigation and layout, content browsing, and...
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>20% of Mobile Web Traffic Over Wi-Fi, Says Bango
According to Bango, over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using their mobile phones are now connecting via Wi-Fi. Bango is developing a billing system for carriers so that Wi-Fi content purchased can be made via the...
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Size and Color VIP to Cell Phone Buyers, Says Wirefly
Most American cell phone buyers still say fancy features are not so important when they choose a cell phone. According to a new survey from Wirefly, cell phone buyers' main reason in selecting a phone are for reasons other than...
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Accelerometer Growth Accelerated in Smartphones, Says iSuppli
Because acclerometers, enable smartphones like the BlackBerry Storm, iPhone and Palm Pre, sense rotation and therefore automatically rotate the screen they are expected to appear in one-third of mobile phones shipped next year, according to iSuppli Corp. While few consumers...
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Michael Jackson Memorial Boosted Mobile and Facebook Traffic
The Michael Jackson Memorial, yesterday, drew crowds on television and also increased mobile traffic.Between 10am and noon PDT, Verizon Wireless voice calls in the vicinity of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the location of the Michael Jackson memorial, were...
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911 Emergency Keep Landline and Cell, Says AT&T
While cable companies try to lure you to give up a real landline AT&T warns that in an emergency you may need a landline along with an AT&T cell phone. Some accuse the campaign of using scare tactics with the...
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Mobile Security Concerns Preventing New Trans, Says Cloudmark
According to a Cloudmark-commissioned survey from Harris Interactive, nearly two thirds of mobile device owners are concerned about security. The survey showed security concerns are preventing many users from adopting new mobile services for financial transactions and shopping. Spam...
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Informa Lowers Device Expectations Due to Downturn
While more smartphones will be bought by confused consumers, the overall handset market will not be as robust as expected. The financial downturn will cause1.04 billion fewer devices sold in the next five years than had previously been expected, according...
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Open Source Tidal Wave of Apps Overturn Downturn, Says Juniper
pen Source Operating System Research from Juniper Research found that operating systems and applications are playing an increasingly important role in the differentiation of new smartphones and a key factor in the choice of which handset choice by users. They...
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Smartphone Buyers Confused, Value Their Mobile Phones and TWI
A Best Buy Mobile survey conducted by GfK shows that many adult Americans plan to buy a smartphone in the next 12 months and they are confused. They do value their mobiles and would go to great lengths to keep...
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High Costs Keep Travelers from Using Travel Apps, Says Sprint
A survey from Sprint and Harris Interactive shows that the majority of vacationers are not using helpful travel applications because of budget concerns. Wireless phone are the most popular item to pack, Aside from laptops (50 percent), MP3 players (38...
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Amercian Cost Cutters Would Drop Mobile Data More, Says Strategy Analytics
Forty-eight percent of Americans would drop their mobile data plan completely if they have to cute expenses, according to Strategy Analytics' Multiplay Market Dynamics service. Only 10% would drop their home broadband subscription. Strategy Analytics asked respondents this question: Imagine...
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Texting While Driving Worse than Drinking While Driving, Says Car and Driver
To gauge the effect of texting while driving, Car and Driver magazine conducted road tests to determine just how dangerous texting and driving can be. In the Car and Driver video of the test, Editor-in-Chief Eddie Alterman, said, "While you're...
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40% of Smartphone Owners Say They'll Switch to iPhone, Says Crowd Science
Four out of ten Blackberry and other smartphone users would switch to Apple's iPhone, as their next smartphone purchase, according to a recent survey conducted by Crowd Science.On the other hand, only 14% of non-Blackberry smartphone users would switch...
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iPhone Rules Apps and Upgraders, Says AdMob
AdMob reports that in less than one year, the Apple App Store has grown to more than 50,000 applications and given consumers access to applications with broad consumer appeal as well as a long tail of niche applications that serve...
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iPhone 3GS, Costs $178.96 to Make, Says iSuppli
iSuppli has estimated how much it costs to make the new iPhone 3GS and its just slightly higher than the iPhone 3G. The dissection conducted by iSuppli Corp.'s Teardown Analysis team also eveals some interesting changes in the parts and...
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IT Pros Don't Protect Their Mobile Data, Says CREDANT
Even IT pros don't protect their data on their mobile phones notes a new CREDANT survey. IT Security professionals report that they are suffering from password fatigue when using their mobile devices, exposing their data to personal and corporate identity...
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Netbook/Notebook Ain't the Same, Consumers Confused, Says NPD Group
NPD Group has also studied the confusion around notebooks versus netbooks. Netbooks are not as powerful and can dissapoint buyers.Although netbook and notebook sound the same, they are not. According The NPD Group, many consumers believe the two have...
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More Twitter Awareness than Ever and Twitterers Love/Buy Music
The NPD Group likes to know what's going. They have tracked Twitter awareness. They found that awareness of Twitter more than doubled in the first quarter of 2009 reaching a 52 percent awareness level among the U.S. Internet-using population, which...
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Samsung Instinct Has More Ad Instinct than iPhone, Says Millennial
Mobile ad network, Millennial Media has released its May Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting. In the device department, the Samsung Instinct replaced the iPhone as number one handset on their list of the Top 20 Mobile Phones in...
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Accessorize to Monetize: 66% Revs Earned by Accessories, Says ABI
According to a recent study from ABI Research, sixty six percent of revenues earned from mobile handset accessories are generated in the aftermarket. This percentage is only expected to grow with time, following a market trend to move more and...
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Males Dominate iPhone and iPod Touch Use and Prefer Web to Newspapers, Says Admob & comScore
AdMob released new research on the demographics and behavior of iPhone and iPod touch users in the US. iPhone and iPod Touch users are different in age an household income. The research found that 5 in 10 consumers on both...
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iGR Text Study: Breakups, Marriage Proposals, Babies, Divorces
Mobile consultancy, iGR's recent study on the content of consumers' text messages shows some major life situations are occurring via cell phone SMS text messages.The survey asked respondents a series of questions regarding the purpose of text messages they sent...
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Mobile Phoners Worry, Operators Should Help, Says Mformation
Mformation research shows the great concern phone owners have about their data and their lifes. A lot of information is now stored on mobile devices:94% of users surveyed store telephone numbers.65% also store address and other contact information on their...
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Data Revs Rep 25.3% of Operator Data Revs, Says Strategy Analytics
Mobile service revenues grew by just 3 percent in Q1 2009, down from 8 percent a year earlier, according to, "Wireless Operator Performance Benchmarking, Q1 2009," a report from the Strategy Analytics Wireless Network Strategies service. Nearly 40 percent of...
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Palm Pre, a Hit - Smartphone Competition Grows, Says Yankee Group
Yankee Group in their latest report "Latest Palm Device "Pre"-views Future OEM-Operator Relationships" shows the smartphone category is becoming he most important competitive battleground in wireless today: Forty-one percent of consumers are likely to choose an advanced OS phone as...
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Smartphones Users Spend 2 Hours-a-Day & 30x-a-Day, Says Gravity Tank
gravitytank surveyed 804 smartphone users, 301 of whom own app-enabled phones (either Apple's iPhone or HTC's G1) to study how they use their handsets and integrate apps into daily life According to gravitytank's research, 50% of app-phone users view apps...
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Broadband Will Continue to Grow & Add 5 Million Subs, Says Strategy Analytics
Even during the down-turn with contracting household budgets, US broadband subscriptions will continue to grow in 2009, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics. In a report just published, “North America Broadband Forecast: 1H’2009,” the firm predicts that US Broadband Service...
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Opera Overtakes iPhone for Mobile Browsing, Says StatCounter
According to StatCounter Global Stats, Opera is the world's number one mobile browser, overtaking iPhone in May. In May Opera took 24.6% of the worldwide market compared to 22.3% for iPhone. Nokia retains third place with 17.9%. However, if one includes...
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PrePaid Strong, Says IDC
During the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), the top 10 carriers in the United States added just under 3.5 million retail net subscribers. Out of these retail net subscribers, 75% were prepaid users. Over 20 million gross retail subscribers were...
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224 Billion Messages in 2008, 1.06 Million SMS Valentines, Days VeriSign
The latest figures from VeriSign show no signs of mobile messaging slowing, its growing exponentially. Mobile messaging volumes continue to shatter records, according to the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by the Messaging and Mobile Media Division...
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Mobile Payment Users Up 70.4% Over Last Year, Says Gartner
The mobile payment industry will experience steady growth, as the number of mobile payment users worldwide will total 73.4 million in 2009, up 70.4 percent from 2008 when there were 43.1 million users, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that...
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iPhone Exclusively Best Bet for AT&T, Says ChangeWave
ChangeWave Research surveys show that the U.S. cellular service provider market remains a two-horse race between AT&T and Verizon - with the former leading in terms of future demand and the latter in terms of customer satisfaction and fewest dropped...
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Credit Card Co's Trusted More than Carriers, Says Harris Interactive
Harris Interactive results surveying people about cell phone use and payments found that: Nearly 4 out of 5 U.S. adults (77%) receive bills from cell phone and credit card companies, and of these adults, the majority (57%) trust credit...
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Smartphones Account for 35% MobiAds, Says Ad Mob
The latest AdMob metrics show smartphones accounted for nearly 3 times more usage than their relative market share in its April 2009 Mobile Metrics Report. The report also compares usage of mobile Web sites to usage of HTML sites on...
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UK Mobile Web Survey - Search on Toilet, @Table & in Bed
Yahoo! Mobile in the U.K revealed that Brits are so addicted to staying connected to the information that they search and browse the Internet on their mobile in a number of unusual situations, including on the toilet and between the...
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Smartphone Sales Up 12.7%, Nokia is Top, Followed by BlackBerry, Says Gartner
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 8.6 per cent decrease from the first quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 per cent...
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Palm Pre Users Have Seen Mobile Ads and BlackBerry Storm Hits 15
Millennial Media, April SMART mobile ad study showed that Palm Pre users saw ads and the BlackBerry Storm entered the top twenty. Device Highlights: iPhone/iTouch impressions grew 8% month over month set new network-wide record. Apple edged out LG...
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Customers Prefer Operator Portals, Says Strategy Analytics
The latest benchmark report from the Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Lab, "US Mobile Portals: MSN and AOL Trail Operator Offerings for User Experience," found that consumers preferred the mobile portals from US operators to offerings from AOL and MSN. The...
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12-24 Year-Olds in This Digital Age: Everything Moving to Mobile
According to Dr. Cole from the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School, during his presentation to the Knight Digital News Entrepreneur Boot Camp, in Los Angeles, Saturday, the life of today's 12-24 year-old human is very digital. Here are some...
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Samsung and LG Sold Over 20 Million Touchscreen Phones Each
Korea has been responsible for their fare share of touchscreen phones. Both Samsung and LG have each sold 20 million touchsreen phones. They both started their touch adventures two years ago. In January Samsung, reported reaching 10 million touchscreen phones....
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2x # of Smartphones, Double Integrated Devices, Says AT&T
AT&T claims that, based on independent market research, twice as many smartphone users have chosen AT&T over any other U.S. carrier. They attribute their success to the fastest 3G network and nearly 20,000 U.S. Wi-Fi hotspots offers and AT&T's industry-leading...
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51% Users Use Mobile Content, Used Longer for Entertainment, Says Magid Assoc.
Mobile content is growing in popularity and use. 51 percent of mobile phone users access content using their mobile phone on a weekly basis, according to a new study released by research and consultation firm Frank N. Magid AssociatesWhat's more,...
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More Mobile Ads Recalled, Says Brightkite and GfK
Brightkite and GfK Technology released their latest Mobile Advertising Report (MAR). 38% of US mobile phone owners recall seeing advertising on their cell phones in the first quarter of 2009, although for Smartphone (such as iPhone) users, 59% recalled...
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Google Android to Increase 900 or 420%, Says Strategy Analytics or IDC
Depending on what analyst you listen to, Android shipments are going increase a lot this year.Strategy Analytics predicts global Android smartphone shipments will grow 900 percent in 2009. While IDC predicts a meager 420% growth rate for Android smartphones in...
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Strong Demand for Mobile Video, Says QuickPlay
QuickPlay Media, unveiled the findings of its latest quarterly consumer consumption analysis. The results--aggregate usage statistics from 15 representative QuickPlay-powered services over the first quarter of 2009--reveal that consumer demand for streaming and mobile video download content remains strong. The...
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Restaurants and Restrooms Top Rooms for Cellular, Says IGR
GR, announced the findings of a recent study on the locations in which consumers use their mobile phones. The survey, open to 18 to 65 year old consumers, asked respondents to specify the places they had used their mobile phones...
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Over 20% Households Wireless Only: Wireless-Only Heathlier, Says NHIS
More than one of every five American homes (20.2%) had only wireless telephones during the second half of 2008, an increase of 2.7 percentage points since the first half of 2008 reports the July-December 2008 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).This...
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Handset Shipments to Decline 20% in 2009, Says In-Stat
The global recession will make the next two years unusually difficult for the cellphone industry, reports In-Stat. They claim Subscription growth is slowing, so roughly three quarters of handset unit sales are expected to be replacement models, a discretionary purchase...
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Mobile Ad Sector Will Double in Next 2 Years, Says Magna
The mobile advertising sector is posed to almost double over the next two years. MAGNA forecasts the US market for mobile advertising will grow by 36%, rising from $169 million in 2008 to $229 million during 2009. Although these...
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AT&T Navigator Tops Mobile Apps at AT&T
AT&T's top 10 performing applications for January through March, offering include navigation, Mobile TV, Napster, XM Raddio, MobiTV, WikiMobile, Shazam (MusicID), Make-UR-Tones, Weather, and MobiVJ. Wireless data revenues for AT&T grew 39 percent year-over-year. A key contributor to this growth...
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Web Phone Purchases and Acitvities Are Increasing, Says PriceGrabber
PriceGrabber.com's survey findings reveal that online consumers have made significant headway in web-enabled phone adoption and mobile Internet usage. It shows that web-enabled phone owners, research purchases and buy digital content. In PriceGrabber.com's March 2009 survey, nearly 58 percent of...
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iPhoners Download/Buy More Apps than Smartphoners, Says Compete
Based on data from its Smartphone Intelligence report, Compete shows app preferences, pricing, and smartphone users who don't need anything else. How Much Smartphone Users Spend on AppsWhen Smartphone users were asked the most they've ever spent on a single...
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Predicito Predicts Higher Predicto and Twitter Growth
A study released using Nielsen Mobile's data, shows mobile user demographics and market penetration of, and According to Nielsen data from the fourth quarter 2008 SMS Media Report, both services are clear industry leaders with an overwhelming 50 percent of...
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Mobile App Revs to Exceed $25bn by 2014, Says Juniper
A report from Juniper Research predicts direct and indirect revenues from mobile applications are expected to exceed $25bn by 2014, with growth fueled by a app store launches targeting both high-end and mass market handsets. The mobile applications report found...
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258 Million Handsets Shipped in Q1, Better than Expected, Says ABI
Even in this tough economy, the mobile handset-buying public did not head to the hills during the first quarter of 2009. Handset vendors had shipped 258 million handsets by the end of the quarter. Although that represents an 11% year-over-year...
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8.6 Billion Opera Mini Webpages, Says Opera
Opera shows a major jump in usage, page views and data transfers for Opera Mini this month. In March 2009, more than 23 million people used Opera Mini, a 12.1% increase from February 2009 and more than 157% increase from...
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iPhone and Android Top Platforms, Says AdMob
AdMob shows the rapid growth of the Android and iPhone platforms in its March 2009 Mobile Metrics Report. Growth in requests from devices running the Android and iPhone Operating Systems (OS) continued to outpace other platforms in March, despite the...
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Smartphone Users Will Drive High Data Usages, Says Juniper
SMS, MMS, mobile email and IM traffic volumes will continue their inexorable rise, while the IP evolution is resulting in disruptive business models, increased competition from the web and commoditiaation of established services, reports Juniper Research.Mobile messaging revenues are set...
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USC and Nokia Research to Advance Mobile Experiences
The University of Southern California (USC) and Nokia Research Center (NRC) Hollywood announced a research collaboration framework agreement that centers on advanced mobile user experiences. The umbrella framework agreement allows Nokia and USC to work together on multiple projects in...
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Yahoo Tops Mobile Search, Says dotMobi and Gomez
Gomez and dotMobi launched benchmarks to compare and rank the mobile web for airline, banking and search and show the mobile web is thirty percent slower than computer web-broswing. For search, Yahoo ranked highest in March. Bank of America rated...
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Handset and Subscriptions Will Take a Hit, Says In-Stat
The outlook for cell phones is m tumultuous for the mobile industry, reports In-Stat http://www.in-stat.com. They predict that both handset sales and subscriptions will take a hit, but In-Stat expects that subscriptions will weather the financial crisis better than handset...
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dotMobi Domains and Mobile Web Explodes
dotMobi released highlights of a new study on mobile web trends that shows mobile web content creation continues to explode. Based on a review of the largest top-level Internet domains, dotMobi has seen a sevenfold growth in the number of...
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Mobile Broadband Adoption Decelerating, Says comScore
comScore released the results of a study of U.S. Internet usage via mobile PC data cards, which showed that the subscriber base - which previously had been growing strongly - began to decelerate noticeably in Q4 2008 with a...
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U.S. Consumers Leary of Security and Privacy with Mobile Banking, Says KMPG
U.S. consumers believe mobile banking is important but do no not want to pay for it and also are wary of using their mobile devices such as cell phones, smartphones, and personal digital assistants (PDAs) for financial transactions and online...
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Battery Juice Drained By Web, Social Networking and Navigation, Says Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytic’s report, “Cell Phone Energy Gap: Desperately Seeking Solutions,” reveals that improvements in component power consumption and battery chemistry will not be sufficient to offset the growth in feature penetration and application usage. The report predicts that web browsing,...
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Older Folks Expect Less from Mobile Price Points, Says ABI
An ABI Research survey on mobile phone users' age-related feature and price assumptions found nearly half of the respondents in the 40-59 age bracket expected a touchscreen on a $50 mobile device. That survey, conducted in February, 2009, aimed to...
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Palm Pre Great for Palm - But Obstacles Must Be Overcome, Says ChangeWave
ChangeWave looked closely at the potential of Palm Pre sales in their recent study of consumer's expected smartphone purchases. Although the Palm Pre could breathe new life into Palm, the company has to overcome the obstacles of satisfaction ratings of...
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More Smartphone Expected Buying of iPhone, BlackBerry, and Palm Pre
According to ChangeWaves latest survey of cell phone owner, the shift to smartphones continues. There is a slight dip in the forecast for the spring season, due to no Apple and Research In Motion immediate product launches scheduled for the...
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LBS App Developers Prefer iPhone, Android, WinMO and J2ME Says Skyhook
Developers of location aware applications (LBS apps) are not interested in creating apps for the Palm WebOS or Symbian platforms, reports Skyhook Wireless. Developers primary application development environments included iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME, and Symbian. These developers are using...
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Tap Tap Revenge Most Popular iPhone App, App Users Rich Social Networkers
comScore, reported that Tapulous's Tap Tap Revenge has the largest installed base among applications downloaded from the Apple App Store, with 34 percent of Apple App users having installed the game by February 2009, according to the comScore Apple App...
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CTIA Survey Shows Gains in Data, Text, Users and Minutes
CTIA's latest surveys shows gains in data revenues, text messaging, wireless users, and an increase o 100 billion miinutes.Wireless revenues showed impressive year-to year gains. Wireless data service revenues for the year 2008 rose to more than $32 billion. This...
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Nokia 3110c Tops Bango List of Mobile Devices
According to statistics released by Bango, the iPhone didn't make the top 20. The Bango Top 20 handset list has the Nokia 3110c on top, followed by the Samsung M800 in 2nd and the Nokia 6300 in 3rd. The iPhone...
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Social Networking and Craigslist Top Mobile Destinations, Says Openwave
Themes from Openwave's Mobile Analytics include upticks in social networking site usage, an analysis of mobile advertising click-through rates (CTR) that showed clear advantages of targeted promotions; and the growing trend in accessing mobile classifieds via the mobile device. Social...
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Google Tops Opera Mini State of the Mobile Web in U.S.
Opera Mini's "State of the the Mobile Web" gives insight into mobile Internet use. The latest report focused on Russia.Opera Mini increased its total consumer user-base to more than 20.5 million. This represents more than 160% growth since February 2008....
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ABI Says Handset Sales to Flatten Not Fall
ABI Research's current forecasts for 2010 are cautiously optimistic and suggest we may see shipment numbers stabilize and maintain an essentially flat growth rate rather than falling further. "ABI Research estimates that worldwide handset shipments will fall by at least...
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100 Million Apps Store Compatible Mobile Phones by 2013, Says In-Stat
Recent research from In-Stat forecasts more than 100 million apps store compatible mobile phones from multiple manufacturers will be shipping within five years.App stores give marketers and advertisers have a new way to reach mobile audiences the mobile app store. ...
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Consumers Very Pleased with Mobile Music and Would Accept Ads, Says MEF
More than three-fourths of US consumers surveyed are pleased with their experience downloading and listening to songs on their mobile phone, and almost a third are willing to accept advertising on their mobile phones in exchange for free music downloads,...
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iPhone Leads U.S. Smartphones, Says AdMob
AdMob, in its February 2009 Mobile Metrics Report, says smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of requests in February 2009. They believe that the launch of...
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Hispanics Have High Mobile and Broadband Usage, Says Scarborough
Scarborough Research has studied Hispanic mobile phone and Internet usage. Hispanics are highly connected by mobile phone and by broadband more than other typical adults.Hispanics are avid cellular phone users. They are more likely than the typical adult to have...
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Top Mobile Phone Use Phone Calls Followed by Text and Email, Says Accenture
Accenture research showed some increased uptake in consumer adoption of mobile multimedia services. For instance: Watching video on a mobile device rose from 12 to 14 percent. Adopting web-enabled phones rose from 8 to 23 percent. Approximately one-third indicated web...
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Verizon Tops JD Power Quality Study, Users Get 98 SMS @Mo
The gap in call quality performance between the highest- and lowest-ranked carriers is smaller compared with previous years, reports the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study. Verizon ranked highest andFor a ninth consecutive reporting period, Verizon...
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Consumers Looking to Cut Cell Phone Costs, Says NMRC
Millions of Americans may hang-up on their expensive cell phone plans and or cut back on extras such as web, texting and email a news survey for New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) reports . Two out of five Americans with...
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BlackBerry Storm, G1, iPhone and Instinct Top Revenue Drivers for Carriers, Says comScore
comScore, has been keeping score on wireless handsets, plans and e-commerce, with their e-commerce dashboard. Flagship phones generated revenue while discounts, free phones and other offers fueled volume sales, noted the report. Substantial numbers of phones sold on carriers websites...
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30% of Wireless Subs Will be 3G in 2013, Says In-Stat
At the end of 2008, only 11% of worldwide wireless subscriptions were 3G. By the end of 2013, the percentage of 3G and 4G subscriptions will reach 30%, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). This trend is reflected in fourth quarter 2008 wireless...
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Economy Not Slowing Growing Mobile Broadband, Says Infonetics
Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its Mobile Broadband Cards, Routers, Services, and Subscribers report. The report found that worldwide, the number of mobile broadband subscribers (including W- CDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000/EV-DO) jumped 125% in...
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Value of Mobile Coupons to Increase >30%, Says Juniper Research
Juniper Research predicts that the redemption value of mobile coupons will increase by over 30% by 2010.Juniper Research found that the twin effects of shoppers needing to make economies in their spending and merchants ever keen to make sales will...
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Emerging Markets Want Smartphones Too, Says Strategy Analytics
Defying the conventional wisdom that consumers in emerging markets simply want "no-frills" devices and services, Strategy Analytics has identified sizable numbers of users who want advanced products - and are willing to pay for them. A new report from the...
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IDC Outlook for Mobile Growth Negative -8.3%
The worldwide mobile phone market was influenced the economic crisis in the fourth quarter of 2008 - shipments fell 11.6% year over year. It was the first time the holiday quarter has not recorded double digit growth in seven years....
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Oklahoma Leads in Wireless-Only Households - Wireless-Only Growing On Map
Oklahoma is leading the nation's wireless-only movement, with more than one in four households (26.2%) in that state using only wireless phones in 2007 reports a new study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center...
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Social Networking More Mobile, Says Nielsen
According to a new Nielsen report "Global Faces and Networked Places," two-thirds of the world's Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time. Social networking is also becoming more mobile. Time spent...
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Mobile Phone Third Most Important Innovation in 30 Years, Says Wharton & NBR
A lot of innovations have happened since 1979 and when news was read on paper and the personal computer was a pipe dream. Nightly Business Report, partnered with Knowledge@Wharton to create a list of the "Top 30 Innovations of the...
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Smartphones Will Treble While Handsets in Trouble, Says Informa
Informa Telecoms & Media predict that in 2009, total new handset sales will fall 10.1% year on year. Smartphone sales will maintain robust growth, 35.3% year on year - Smartphone penetration will reach 13.5% of new handsets sold. In 2013,...
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Smartphones Bright Spot in Dim Handset Market, Says iSuppli
Smartphones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli Corp. predicts, although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim. iSuppli's optimistic scenario predicts global smartphone unit shipments...
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Smartphones 23% of Sales, Says NPD Group
According to The NPD Group, market research, consumer sales of smartphones to U.S. consumers represented 23 percent of all handset sales in the fourth quarter (Q4) 2008 compared to just 12 percent in Q4 2007. Led by the release of...
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Economic Downturn Downer for Mobile Phones Sales, Says Gartner
The economic downturn has taken its toll on handsets. Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner,...
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1/3 Say They Will Upgrade to Smartphone, Says In-Stat
Global smartphone growth this year will be strong globally, but even stronger in the US market. Recent research by In-Stat found the following: By 2013, Smartphones will double their share of all cellphones to about 20 percent, reports In-Stat. Almost...
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iPhone 66.61% of Mobile Web Browsing
Market Share by Net Applications shows the shares of different phones operating systems for the mobile web.Although the iPhone has a hugs lead in mobile browsing share (66.61),Android and BlackBerry are rapidly gaining market share. This does not mean that...
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Mobile Ad Revs Will Rich $3.1 Billin in 2013, Says Kelsey Group
U.S. mobile advertising revenues (search and display) will grow to $3.1 billion in 2013, from $160 million in 2008, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 81.2 percent, according to The Kelsey Group During the same period, they forecass...
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300 Billion Transactions Worth $860 Billion by 2013, Says Informa Telecoms
Informa Telecoms & Media forecasts that in 2013 almost 300 billion transactions, worth more than US$860 billion, will be conducted using a mobile phone - a twelve-fold increase in gross global transaction values in just five years. "The mobile payments...
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Mobile Search Doubled, News, Games, Music, & Video Popular, Says ABI
70% of respondents used their mobile phones to access information through Internet search engines last year, reports ABI research from data in surveys in 2007 and 2008. That represents a substantial 14% increase over 2007. The consumption of mobile data...
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Top Handsets in Decemember, Topped by RIM's BlackBerry Curve
AvianReasearch calculated the top ten handsets in the U.S. in December and reported the four largest carriers represented 85% of the U.S. wireless market on a subscriber basis. Most of the top ten handsets are in fact smartphones. The findings...
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Mobile Music Profits will Soar while Ringtones Decline, Says Jupiter
Ringtone decline will be displaced by growth and profits from full music dowloas, suggests a report from Jupiter Research. A sharp fall in ringtone revenues will be more than offset by growth in full-track downloads, streamed music services and ringback...
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MWC Mobile Internet Usage Doubling, Says Surf Kitchen
A survey of Mobile World Congress attendees conducted by SurfKitchen suggests that mobile Internet services are ready for mainstream adoption. One third of attendees surveyed at the industry exhibition stated that their mobile Internet usage has more than doubled over...
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35 Million Cellular Modems Hit Market in 2008
More than 35 million cellular modems used to connect laptops and netbooks to the Internet of the devices hit the market in 2008 according to shipment data. The majority were the external USB modems that mobile operators have been pushing...
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Social Networking Tops On Mobiles, Says Openwave
Openwave Systems Inc. revealed research on trends for the mobile internet in North America, based on its Mobile Analytics product. Social networking is the number one area of interest to the mobile internet user. The top two search terms on...
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MEF Confident that Mobile Content Will Profit, Even in Downturn
The Mobile Entertainment Forum published its first quarterly Business Confidence Index (BCI) for the $32bn global mobile entertainment industry. It shows the industry is confident it will continue to grow despite the economic downturn. MEF members, predicted an average revenue...
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4 Billion Mobile Connections, Says GSMA
The GSMA today announced that the mobile world has celebrated its four billionth connection, according to Wireless Intelligence, the GSMA’s market intelligence unit. This milestone underscores the continued strong growth of the mobile industry and puts the global market on...
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500 Million Mobile TV Viewers by 2013, Says ABI Research
The switchover to all-digital television broadcasting in the United States and other major countries will create an unprecedented opportunity for the mobile TV market, according to a new study from ABI Research. Following the switchover traditional and mobile TV broadcasters...
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Mobile Phones Sales Down Smartphones Up, Says IDC
The mobile phone market was really a "downer" with 12.6% lower units in Q4 notes a new report from IDC. The only positive note was for smartphones in 2008, the converged mobile devices segment grew 22.5% over 2007, outpacing the...
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Mobile Devices Disruptive Force in Media, Says KPMG
Media and advertising professionals say the pullback of ad dollars and mobile devices becoming personal computers are the most disruptive forces in media today, according to a recent survey by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm....
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T-Mobile Gets Highest Score for Customer Service from J.D. Power
J.D. Power has released a report card on how well wireless providers service their customers. They rated three point-of-contact methods: telephone calls with a service representative and/or automated response system (ARS); visits to a retail wireless store; and on the...
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Samsung Now Number Two In Handset Sales in Q4 2008, Says Fierce Wireless
FierceWireless compiled all the numbers for handset sales for a look at the handset market sales, prices and market share for the fourth quarter of 2008. As a former math major and teacher of Excel classes, I felt compelled to...
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More Mobile Gamers on iPhone and BlackBerry Curve, Photo Sharing Top Acitivity, Says comScore
comScore, reports that the number of mobile game downloaders grew 17 percent from November 2007 to November 2008, when 8.5 million people, or 3.8 percent of mobile subscribers, downloaded a game to their mobile device. The iPhone and BlackBerry Curve...
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Traditional Media Loses to Mobile Media, Says Oliver Wyman
New media companies are not recouping all of that lost value to traditional media, according to Oliver Wyman's 2009 State of the Industry Report. Instead, market value is flowing to other sectors. For media companies, 2008 was a very bad...
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2 Trillion Texts-a-Day Globally, Says In-Stat
A report from In-Stat finds the most profitable data service is still text messaging. Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) technologies provide potentially endless revenue streams for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). In-Stat found the following: Users are...
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BlackBerry Bold 3G Faster than iPhone 3G, Fixed Faster than Mobile, Says Gartner
3G speeds aren't always as fast as users would like or expect them to be according Gartner's Phillip Redman who wrote "U.S. 3G Networks Deliver Less Than Expected"Because the iPhone 3G can't use the latest 3G technology it won't achieve...
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Longer Development and New Genres for iPhone Apps, Says Game Developer Research
Game Developer Research debuted the results of its State of iPhone Game Development report.The report uses iPhone App Store data and an anonymous survey of almost 150 current iPhone developers. Metrics have revealed a trend towards longer development cycles for...
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Developers Have High Hopes for Enterprise Mobile Development in 2009
According to the Wireless Development Survey from Evans Data of over 400 wireless developers worldwide 94% of corporate developers expect the development of wireless enterprise applications to either increase (47.6%) or stay the same (46.4%) in the coming year.Only 6%...
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Weak Economy Won't Stop Wireless Growth, Says Strategy Analytics
The Strategy Analytics Wireless Network Strategies service report, "US Wireless Market Outlook: 2009 Key Trends," predicts that US cellular subscriber growth will remain strong despite the economic situation, although growth levels will scale back slightly from 2008. US cellular service...
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Mobile Social Networking Grows Substantially, Says Opera
Opera's latest State of the Mobile Web examined social networks. In this month's report, Opera reviewed the top social networks in key countries. Globally the top 10 social networks for Opera Mini users are (ranked by unique users): 1. vkontakte.ru...
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LG 3rd Place in Worldwide Phone Shipments, Says Digitimes
LG Electronics has moved up to third place in worldwide phone shipments according to Digitimes.Nokia still has the lead, followed by Samsung. Motorola moved down to fourth place with Sony Ericsson holding at fifth place. Motorola has been having a...
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Mobile Phone and App Setup is Too Complex & Painful, Says Mformation
Complexity is preventing usage of mobile applications and services, according to a survey of US and UK consumers commissioned by mobile device management (MDM) specialist Mformation.95% of consumers surveyed indicated that they would be more likely to try new mobile...
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ForeSee Foresees More Mobile Friend Apps to Promote In-Store Buying
E-retailers are beginning to offer mobile applications for cell phone users to enhance their in-store shopping experience. As part of ForeSee Results annual research on the Top 40 e-retailers by sales volume, they studied how and when shoppers are using...
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Imaging Apps to Reach $500 Million in 2013 - Most Cell Phone Cameras 2 mpx
U.S. consumers will spend more than $500 million in 2013 for imaging applications on their mobile phones, according to research firm Parks Associates. They see the market expanding beyond photo-sharing services to personalized content management and social networking applications. Parks...
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49% Increase in Mobile Buzz Advertising, Says Buzz City
The BuzzCity Mobile Advertising Index for Q4 2008 showed an almost 50 percent growth in paid banner advertisements in the U.S. during the last three months of the year. BuzzCity Global Mobile Advertising Index The following statistics show paid advertising...
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Mobile Video Grows, iPhone and YouTube Most Popular, Says Nielsen
Nielsen has released a new white paper on mobile video use. Although mobile video use is still low in the U.S. it is growing. The iPhone is the most popular phone and YouTube is a the top video provider. Here's...
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MediaFLOers View Mobile TV More than 20 Minutes a Day
MediaFLO plans to make FLO TV available to more than 200 million consumers across more than 100 markets in 2009. MediaFLO's market research shows that consumers are adopting more mobile TV services. After they adopt to mobile TV, they use...
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AdMob Reports iPod Growth and Higher Smartphone Shares
The latest AdMob report shows huge iPod Touch growth and smartphone Operating System (OS) market share.. Highlights from the December 2008 report: Smartphone share increased from 22 percent of total requests worldwide in May to 33 percent in December.iPod Touch...
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Mobile Phone Users Want to Use Their Mobile Phones to Make Calls, Says NPD
Almost half (45 percent) of American cell phone users prefer to use their mobile phones to make calls - not for other multimedia features shows research by the NPD Group.While most U.S. consumers are aware of text messaging and...
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Nokia & BlackBerry Storm Will Strike Back iPhone in 2009, Says Landor & Associates
Research firm Landor & Associates has released its second annual trends outlook. Landor analyst Luke Mansfield expects that 2009 will herald the next generation of user-friendly technology. He wrote:"We'll continue to see Apple on the march, but I expect a...
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Twittersphere Report Shows Lots of New Twitterers in 2008
HubSpot’s “State of the Twittersphere” report for Q4 2008 shows a dominance of new users this year with 70% of Twitterers joining in 2008.The report reveals 5,000-10,000 new accounts opened per day while 35% of Twitter users have ten or...
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Opera's State of Mobile Web Gives Nod to BlackBerry Bold
Opera Mobile watches how its mobile browser is used. Here are there latest findings. It's interesting to note that many of the top handsets are BlackBerry, making Opera a very popular browser on BlackBerry Devices....
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60% of World Population Connects to Mobile Phones, Says 3G Americas
Trade association 3G Americas, announced that in December 2008 with 4 billion connections to mobile devices worldwide. The estimate by Informa Telecoms & Media represents 60% of the entire global population today. In some countries, millions of people are now...
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Mobile Social Networking to Reach 800 Million in 2012
Mobile social network users is growing quickly. According to a study conducted by The Kelsey Group and ConStat, the percentage of mobile phone users who said they accessed social networks from their handset jumped 182% from September 2007 to October...
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BlackBerry Storm Gaining Momentum in Smartphone War with iPhone
ChangeWave Research's new survey looks at the marketshare of the RIM vs Apple. New RIM products such as the BlackBerry Storm have provided a jump in consumer planned buying that suggests RIM is gaining steam.The ChangeWave survey of 3,803...
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Sprint Gets Top Customer Care Ranking from Pali Capital Inc.
Once again Sprint received a top ranking in customer care, from a Pali Capital Inc.survey. This is the second time for the past two quarters.Sprint answered 89 percent of 1,000 calls to its customer service lines within 30 seconds. Sprint...
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Cell Phone Downturn Expected in 2009, Says IDC
The impact of the global economic crisis will spread to the mobile phone market resulting in a downturn in shipments in 2009. According to IDC, total mobile phone volumes will be 1.9% lower in 2009 than 2008 levels, the first...
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iPhone Rules Wi-Fi Ad Requests, Says AdMob
AdMob has released some new information about smartphone ad serving and Wi-Fi The iPhone is at the forefront of Wi-Fi usage and recently launched smartphones such as the G1 and BlackBerry Bold suggest that Wi-Fi traffic will continue to grow...
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New NHIS Survey Shows More Wireless-Only Users with Heath-Related Problems
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show that the number of American homes with only wireless telephones grew once again. More than one out of every six American homes (17.5%) had only wireless telephones during the first half of 2008, an...
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Network Infrastructure at a Cross-Roads, Says ABI Research
Nortel’s share price recently dipped to about 40 cents. While ABI Research in no way singles out the beleaguered network equipment vendor as worthy of particular criticism, according to senior analyst Nadine Manjaro Nortel’s low fortunes are symptomatic of several...
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22% Teen Girls Shared Risqué Photos of Themselves Via Text/Online, Says New Survey
Teenage girls and boys are sending, receiving, posting, and sharing naked or barely-clothed photos at an alarming rate. According to a survey released by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com, parents and teens have a...
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Gobal Annual Rev Over $1.03 Trillion by 2013, Informs Informa
Annual revenues from the global mobile market will top USD 1.03 trillion by 2013, when the number of subscriptions worldwide will have risen to more than 5.3 billion, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. From end-2007 to end-2013, the...
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Capactive Touchscreens Will Not Charge the Way for Mobiles, Says ABI
When Apple’s iPhone transformed the public’s idea of how a mobile handset should work, one of its most impressive - and apparently disruptive - features was its slick touch-screen interface. While resistive touch screens activated by physical force had been...
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Don't Forget Memory Cards for Profits, Says ABI
Although cellular handset accessories such as chargers and batteries ship far more units in what is today a $58 billion industry, memory cards provide the greatest revenue of all mobile phone add-ons, according to a new study from ABI Research....
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Nu Txt Study Shows Txt 2 Hard 2 Read - Stop bbs-ing , Says Dr. Kemp
A new study by University of Tasmania psychology lecturer, Dr. Nengah Kemp, found that reading a super-abbreviated text message some call "textese," can take 2x as long to comprehend while it saves the sender just a few seconds of texting....
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Americans Should Expect More SMS Text Marketing Msgs, Says Nielsen
Nielsen mobile is doing quite of job of investigating the mobile text revolution. According to a report released Monday by Nielsen's Telecom Practice, Americans should expect to see more text message marketing in the future. Marketers have ramped up their use...
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Moto Tops Losing to Samsung and LG in 2009, Says MultiMedia Intelligence
MultiMedia Intelligence projects that Motorola will remain the most successful mobile handset manufacturer in the US market in 2008, but that share is rapidly fading. According to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence, Motorola is projected to provide 21% of all...
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Mobile Web Spending Will Increase, Syays Strategy Analytics
It looks like web browsing from mobile phones is going to increase. According to the Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Strategies service report, "Mobile Internet Forecast Update 2001-2013," demand for popular content and services on the web, such as social...
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Smartphone Growth Slowed to 11.5%, Says Gartner
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner, Inc. began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per...
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SMS is Cash Cow with World Mobile Msg worth $224 Billion in 2013, Saya Portio
A Portio Research report suggests that SMS will continue to be the cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come. Traffic and revenues continue to keep growing through the economic downturn. The entire mobile messaging industry worth...
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200 Million Mobile Coupon Users by 2013, Says Juniper Research
Coupons delivered and redeemed via mobile phones are forecast to be used by some 200 million mobile subscribers globally by 2013, according to a new study by Juniper Research. The Juniper Research report determined that the mobile coupons market is...
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Verizon Tops Consumer Reports Cell Satisfaction Survey
Consumer Reports revealed the results of their cell phone survey. Verizon topped their survey with high marks from survey respondents in overall satisfaction and customer service, as well as providing service in most of the country. They reported cell-phone service...
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Malware Coming to Smartphones, Malware Services Needed from Carriers, says Unstrung Insider and Light Reading
A new report from Unstrung Insider and Light Reading shows an increasing demand for applications that minimize the potential impact of malware on mobile services.Smartphone Security: Solving the Mobile Malware Problem examines the mobile malware security sector. Key findings include:Mobile...
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It Ain't Easy Going Green for Handset Makers, Says ABI
Most mobile handset vendors acknowledge public pressure to create environmentally sound products. It is an issue they need to continue to address through their corporate responsibility charters. Faced with the economic realities of “going green” however, their appetite for creating...
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iPhone Top Shopping and #3 Mobile AOL Searh
AOL released their data for top searches in 2008. Social networking,ads, weather, maps and match-making were all in the top ten. From AOL Mobile Search MySpace AIM iPhone MocoSpaceFacebook CraigslistWeather Free RingtonesMapQuest Match.com The iPhone also came in number one...
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Touchscreen Smartphones Fuel LBS, Says ABI Research.
The recent launches of GPS-enabled touchscreen smartphones including the BlackBerry Storm and G1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS). Even in an economic downturn, it drives both third party LBS application development and the roll...
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MNOs Should Change Mobile Content Model, Says Juniper
A study from Juniper Research suggests that Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) will need to change their mobile content business models by emphasizing ‘shared value creation’ in order to avoid becoming ‘dumb pipes’ in the future. Only if they can transform...
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Wireless Network Traffic to Increase 10x by 2015, Says Analysys Mason
Mobile network operators in developed regions should prepare for a tenfold increase in wireless network traffic by 2015, as data traffic rapidly overtakes voice, according to the latest report entitled Wireless network traffic 2008-2015: forecasts and analysis from Analysys Mason....
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Nokia Research Now in Hollywood
Nokia research laboratory has been established in the Hollywood. Nokia Research Center Hollywood will work with members of the media & entertainment industry including new technology companies and creative talent, together with leading universities in the region to drive long-term...
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Sony Ericsson Now #3 Nokia #1, Samsung #2, Says Gartner
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end-users reached more than 309 million units in the third quarter of 2008, a 6 per cent increase compared to the third quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. Growth dipped back into single...
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El Paso Top Texting City, Says Scarborough
El Paso is the top U.S. city for text messaging according to Scarborough Research. Fifty-seven percent of cell phone subscribers age 18+ in El Paso text message, versus 48 percent of adult cellular subscribers nationally. Other leading markets for text...
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Emailing Commuter Solution - iLane Hands-Free Smartphone Controller
Even though it is illegal in some states and very dangerous, commuters are continuing to check e-mail and text messages on the way to work says The Commuting and Staying Connected Study, conducted by Angus Reid Strategies for IMS...
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Biz Smartphones 4x Greater than Notebooks, Says J. Gold Associates
Over the next 3 years, business deployment of smartphones will increase at a rate 4 times greater than that of notebooks, and business applications deployed to smartphone devices will grow at twice the rate of those deployed to notebooks, says...
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AdMob Metrics Show iPhone is #1
Admob Metrics looked at the growing iPhone traffic and use by country. · The iPhone displaced the RAZR as the #1 device worldwide in the AdMob network. In October 2008, AdMob reached more than 4.5 million iPhones, 1 out of every...
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World Toilet Day Yesterday, UK Study Reveals Lots of Loo Texting
Yesterday was World Toilet Day. In the UK a philanthropic agency promoting the world's use of toilets Tearfund released interesting information on what people do while on the toilet. The research, commissioned by the aid agency, reveals that more than...
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40% of Digital Signs to Have SMS by 2012 Says MultiMedia Intelligence
Due to the simplicity of SMS messaging and the ubiquity of wireless handsets, 40% of new network digital display platforms installations will leverage SMS for interactivity by 2012, according to MultiMedia Intelligence. This is up from approximately 5% in 2007....
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iPhoners More Comfortable with Ads, Use More Maps, Apps and $$$ Trans than Smartphoners, Says TNS Compete
TNS Compete is now offering Smartphone Intelligence. Their news release states that this infornation "unlocks the secrets of iPhone's success."Key inaugural findings include: iPhone owners are twice as likely as other smartphone owners to be comfortable with advertising within the...
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200 Billion Mobile Msgs and $7 Billion in Revs in 2008, Says VeriSign
VeriSign's data shows a record-breaking quarter for mobile messaging statistics.VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media Division's combined mobile messaging networks enabled more than 58.3 billion messages in Q3 2008, nearly a 10 percent increase from the previous quarter. VeriSign facilitated an...
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Mobile Data Still Growing, Consumers Haven't Pulled Back Data Yet, Says Chetan Sharma
Chetan Sharma has released their latest data on mobile data in the world in third quarter 2008. The US wireless data market s in Q3 2008 and grew 7.3% Q/Q and 37.5% from Q307 to reach $8.8B in data services...
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Mobile Phone Owners are More Satisfied and Spend More, Says JD Power
Customer satisfaction with wireless phones has increased as they get more features, even with higher costs according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study-Volume 2 .The study finds that the average reported purchase...
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55% Mobile Emailers, While 22% Find it Too Hard to Figure Out, Says Sprint
Even though text messaging popular with young adults under 30 (67 percent use the function), a surprisingly high number of people under 30 also would like to have email services on their cell phone New research from Sprint shows, 29...
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530 Mobile Internet Browsers by 2013, Says ABI
While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been smartphones. ABI Research sees this growth continuing over the next five years, with highly capable Internet browsers on smartphones...
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98% of IPhoners Use Data / 43% Month Bills More than $100
Nielsen estimates that there are 3.6 million mobile subscribers ages 13+ actively using the Apple iPhone, as of October 2008. While some sources suggest that the iPhone has overtaken Motorola's RAZR in sales, Nielsen's analysis of Q3 acquisitions shows a...
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MMA Study Says 1 in 4 Interested in Mobile Marketing
The Mobile Marketing Association released its Annual Mobile Attitude and Usage Study, conducted with research partner Synovate.The study's key global findings include: Overall interest in mobile marketing varies by geography. The United States and Western Europe report comparable interest levels...
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iPhones Have Lower Failure Rate But More Prone to Accidents, Says SquareTrade
SquareTrade found that iPhone handsets had substantially fewer failures than BlackBerry and Treo handsets within the first year of ownership. The company compiled iPhone failure rates for more than 15,000 new phones covered by SquareTrade Care Plans.The SquareTrade study revealed:In...
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iPhone 3G Tops Consumer Cell Phone Purchases Beats RAZR in Q3 2008, Says NPD
According to The NPD Group, Apple's iPhone 3G surpassed the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S. in the third quarter (Q3) of 2008. The top handset models in rank order, based on...
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Mobile Msg ARPU Will Grow Even with Bad Econonmy, Says ABI
Even with the economic downturn, mobile messaging growth will continue. ABI Research says mobile messaging services revenues will grow from $151 billion in 2008 to greater than $212 billion globally by 2013. Mobile messaging ARPUs are 85%+ of all handset...
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Smartphone 13% of Total Phone Market, Says Canalys
Gobal shipments of smartphones hit a new peak of just under 40 million units in Q3 2008, according to the latest estimates from leading analyst firm Canalys. This means smartphones now represent around 13% of the total mobile phone market,...
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Samsung Market Leader in US, Says Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics research indicates mobile phone shipments in the United States defied the economic gloom and grew 6 percent annually, to reach 47 million units during the third quarter of 2008. Samsung outperformed, making it the market leader in the...
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iPhone Tops JD Power Smartphone Survey
JD Power Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study, rates the iPhone the highest in overall customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users.Apple ranks highest in overall smartphone customer satisfaction with a score of 778 on a 1,000-point scale, performing particularly well in...
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Wi-Fi Bluetooth, UMB and 60 GHZ Shipments Should Reach 700 Million by 2013, Says ABI
Shipments of four classes of wireless audio and video connectivity products for the home, which barely amount to 150 million this year, are expected to increase to nearly 700 million worldwide by the end of 2013, according to a new...
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Mobile Gambling over $27.5 Billion by 2013, Says Juniper
A sea-change in operator attitudes towards mobile gambling services, improvements to handset user interfaces and the gradual introduction of legislation permitting remote gambling in selected markets are among the key factors which are expected to push total annual wagers...
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Nielsens iPhone 3G and Smartphone Stats
As wireless penetration increases, the number of new wireless customers available continues to shrink. Targeting existing customers becomes increasingly important, and one likely avenue to capture them is through the introduction of exclusive handsets like the iPhone. With the recent...
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3-10% of Web Traffic Mobile, Analytics Needed, Says Bango
When Bango surveyed the Top 20 most trafficked PC website(according to Nielsen Online), they found that half of these sites did not work well on leading mobile phones - despite the fact that typically 5% of visitors to PC websites...
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4 Out of 10 Americans Recall Mobile Ads in Q3, Says Limbo/Gfk
Limbo and Gfk Technology released their latest joint Mobile Advertising Report (MAR). The third quarter report reveals that mobile advertising awareness grew 33 percent in nine months against a backdrop of six percent growth in cell phone usage. This suggests...
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RFID World Market > $5.3 Billion in 2008, Says ABI
The worldwide RFID market will exceed $5.3 billion in 2008, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Annual revenue growth will increase over the next five years, accelerating over the mid-term as high-growth, high-volume applications such as supply chain...
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Year Will Close Out at 1.27 Billion, Says ABI
"Given the traumatic news ricocheting around the financial markets, one would almost expect mobile handset markets to have nosedived", says ABI Research Asia-Pacific vice-president Jake Saunders. "However 3Q-2008 still delivered 8.2% year-on-year growth."...
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75% Cell Phoners Never Late Paying, Too Important, Says LetsTalk
Americans don't let the wireless payment slip. According to a recent Consumer Spending Behavior survey sponsored by LetsTalk.com, more than half of cell phone owners are willing to pay increased bills this year compared to last year. Surprisingly, over 75...
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Mobile Money & NFC Will Be 50% of World Mobile Payments by 2013, Says Juniper
Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50% of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research's new Mobile Payments Study. The Juniper report...
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Wireless Buyers Influenced by Online Research, Says Google
Wireless and Mobile News was able to obtain a copy Goggle's Sales Presentation "Wireless Shoppers: How Consumers Shop for Phones and Wireless Service," with research from Compete. Most wireless buyers go online to research purchases and they don't spend a...
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Mobile Consumers Want Personal Choices, Says Mformation
Mformation Technologies' new research shows global revenues from mobile applications and services are being hampered by an inability to personalize mobile devices.80 percent of respondents to the survey indicated that they would use mobile services more if greater personalization were...
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Mobile Users Waiting to Buy & Changing Habits Due to Economy, Says GetJar
Mobile users around the world are putting off buying new phone handsets while also changing their current spending habits, due to the global economic crisis according to the 'Mobile Attitudes' poll carried out by GetJar, mobile applications portal. The poll...
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Solar to Power 40,000 Cell Sites by 2013, Says ABI
As mobile network expansion moves ostensibly to emerging markets where solar energy levels are more favorable, solar power appears ready to play an important role in reducing the costs of cellular service delivery and ensuring a more reliable power supply....
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50% Say They'd Substitute Mobile Web for PC, Says IBM Study
IBM released new survey results which reveal that over 50 percent of consumers would substitute their Internet usage on a PC for a mobile device. IBM surveyed 600 consumers in the United States, China and the United Kingdom on their...
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Verizon Tops in Retail Satisfaction, Says JD Power
The percentage of salespeople who ask questions or otherwise aid customers in making informed purchase decisions regarding their wireless service has steadily decreased since 2006, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Study-Volume 2 recently...
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Email Addiction, Email During Sex & Driving, Dangerous, Says Osterman
Employees today are under enormous pressure to be "online" 24 hours a day, which is driving them to risky behaviors and underscoring the importance of email reliability and availability for businesses, according to a new study conducted by Osterman Research...
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Txt Gets Quickest Response, 67% of 18-24 Yr Olds Txt 10+x @ Day
New research from Sprint confirms that the under-30 crowd is definitely texting in mass, and they're driving their parents to text, too. The number of adults who are texting has risen from two years ago, when a 2006 Pew Research...
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400 Million Mobile Ticketers, Says Juniper Research
New research from Juniper Research forecasts over 400 million mobile subscribers worldwide will use their mobile phones for ticketing by 2013. However, the study concluded that trials and pilots are not being implemented into full mobile ticketing services as quickly...
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Cell Phone Most Popular Communication of Parents, Says Pew
A national survey of 2,252 adults by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that households with a married couple and minor children are more likely than other household types -- such as single adults, homes with unrelated...
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Motorola Top "Green Wi-Fi" Vendor, Says ABI
Motorola has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Cisco Systems and Siemens Enterprise Networks claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of the "greenness" of worldwide Wi-Fi access...
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iPhone Tops 4 Greystripe Gamers
Greystripe release their October 2008 Consumer Insights Report, which reveals a deeper look at the consumers playing their games, along with mobile gaming demographics, click-through rates and exclusive iPhone statistics, all collected from their internal database of users. The iPhone...
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Brazil, Russia, India & China Data Revs to Reach $48.3 Billion by 2013, Says Juniper
Increasing adoption of messaging and content services, aided by increased availability of 2G and 3G-based mobile networks, is expected to push operator-billed data revenues in the mobile markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (collectively referred to as the BRIC...
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Mobile Web Growing and 69% Can't Live Without Internet, Says Break Media's Study of Males 18-34
Break Media's survey of young men conducted by Hall and Partners, polled a nationally representative sample of more than five hundred males aged 18-34 who access the Internet at least once per month. The research shows 63 percent of men...
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Many High-End Apps Never-Used, Says Accenture Survey
While there is increasing use of handheld mobile devices throughout the United States, higher-end applications remain vastly under-used by the country's consumers, according to an Accenture survey.The survey found that: 88 percent of U.S. consumers said they never use their mobile...
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Muti-SIMers Fuel Prepaid Mobile That'll Caputre 80% of Gobal Subscribers, Says Informa
Informa Telecoms & Media reports that during 2007 and into 2008, the market for prepaid mobile services has continued to grow more than twice as fast as the contract market. At the end of 2007, there were 2.33 billion...
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Mobile Video Devices to Expand Markets, Says In-Stat
The entry of a broad range of new mobile devices able to display video will have a profound effect on the mobile video market, reports In-Stat . The reach of new device choices will provide more markets for mobile operators,...
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Mobile Gaming $1Billion Industry, Off-Deck Growing, Says In-Stat
Though still in its infancy, mobile gaming is already a billion dollar industry in the US, reports In-Stat http://www.in-stat.com . In-Stat believes that mobile gaming will continue to be a key contributor to wireless data usage and revenues due to...
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iPhone Changed Handsets 4 Ever, Says MulitMedia Intelligence
According to Mark Kirsten at MultiMedia Intelligence, the iPhone is wakingup the sleeping giant cell phone makers, teaching them a lesson."Apple went beyond simply replacing the keyboard with a huge touch-screen display, they created a fun, yet effective user...
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Voicemail Tops with NA Mobile Users, Says AppTrigger Inc.
AppTrigger, Inc. announced the results of a recent mobile phone survey revealing that North American mobile users are still heavily reliant on traditional voice and text features, despite a willingness to adopt newer, advanced applications. According to the study, which...
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Emerging Markets Mobile Penetration Rate to Reach 95% by 2013, Says Tariff Consultancy
Mobile penetration rates are forecast to rise from 46% in 2008 to 95% by 2013 according to a new survey of 34 emerging market countries published by Tariff Consultancy Ltd.Emerging Mobile Markets identifies the following key trends that will impact...
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Mobile Email Tops Voicemail, Says Seven
SEVEN, mobile email solutions provider for wireless devices used by 90% of the global marke,.surveyed its customers via its online community site. 1080 people responded on October 4th - 8th, showing the email is used more than voicemail on mobile....
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Mobile Mappers to Reach 70 Million in 2014, Says Berg Insight
According to a new research report by Berg Insight the number of mobile subscribers downloading navigation routes using their mobile handsets is expected to grow from 16 million users in 2008 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.9...
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Network Policy Control Tools Important, Says Heavy Reading
Caminat the leading provider of policy control and application assurance technology, today announced that Heavy Reading in its latest report on "Policy Control & DPI: The New Broadband Imperative" has concluded that there will be rapid growth in deployment of...
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Android Tips Tipping Point in Smarphone Attitude, Says ABI
If Google's ambitions for its recently-launched Android smartphone operating system are fully realized, the new OS will represent a tipping point in attitudes towards the whole concept of a smartphone. This tectonic shift will affect consumers, handset manufacturers and, most...
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TXTers Say TXT VIP 4 FLRT, LUV & Dating, Says AT&T Survey
An AT&T survey among text-messaging adults ages 18-55 showed how important texting is to relationships. According to the survey, 40 percent of texters who are in a relationship or dating believe that text messaging plays a significant or very significant...
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Global WiMAX 2.3 Million In Q2 - Xohm Tipping Point, Says Maravedis
BWA and WiMAX subscribers worldwide reached 2.3 million in Q2 2008 - a 19% growth over the first quarter and a 70% increase over Q2 2007, according to the 5th issue of the WiMAXCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis. "Global service...
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AT&T ARPU Higher Due to IPhone, Says ABI Research
A new study from ABI Research analyzes customer demographics and mobile services usage to create profiles of mobile business customer ARPUs for Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Principal analyst Dan Shey says, “AT&T ARPU figures demonstrate that personal use of...
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8% of Teens Own iPhone 22% Will Buy, Says Piper Jaffray
Piper Jaffray's 16th bi-annual high school students buying preference survey, shows that teenagers polled own and love the iPhone. Their legal music download choice is iTunes.8% own iPhones, an increase from 6% in Spring 2008.22% of students surveyed expect to...
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Wi-Fi LEDs to Transmit Secure Data in Smart Lighting
Boston University's College of Engineering is partnering with the National Science foundation to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio wavesResearchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes,...
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Free Terrestrial TV Will Adversely Impact Mobile Broadcast, Says Juniper
The increasing availability of mobile handsets capable of receiving free-to-air analogue and digital terrestrial TV signals will adversely impact the prospects for dedicated mobile broadcast TV networks, according to a new report from Juniper Research.While the report says that...
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Hispanic Teen Mobile Growth Rate 2-3X of Overall Teens, Says MultiMedia Intelligence
US Hispanic teens aged 12-17 represent 2.5 million subscribers, according to MultiMedia Intelligence. This is an increasingly important segment of wireless consumers, with a subscriber growth rate of two to three times that of overall US teen market over...
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46% of Online Social Networkers Also Go Mobile, Says ABI
In ABI Research online study, nearly half (46%) of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social...
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iPhone Tops BlackBerry - 30% Switched Carriers, Says NPD
The NPD Group reports that 30 percent of U.S. consumers who purchased Apple's new iPhone 3G from June through August 2008 switched from other mobile carriers to join AT&T.In comparison, just 23 percent of consumers, on average, switched carriers between...
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Communications Revs Up Landline Revs Down, Says TIA
As bandwidth consumption continues to grow,communications revenues over the next few years are expected see a 10% annual growth rate in the US reaching $1.3 trillion by 2011. However wireless technology will realize up to 34% annual growth in that...
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27% Wireless Customers Abandoned Landlines, Says JD Power
Over one-fourth of wireless phone customers have replaced landline connections at home and are now using wireless service exclusively to communicate on a daily basis, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 U.S. Wireless Contract Regional Customer Satisfaction Index...
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Azuki Mobile Phone Survey Says, Web Should Be Easier & Accept Ads 4 Free Access,
Azuki Systems announced the results of its first annual U.S. mobile phone user survey. Over 54% of those surveyed said their mobile phone usage had increased by more than 25% over the last two years, and one in five respondents...
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Verizon Scores Highest on Yankee Group's Anywhere Scorecard
Yankee Group released its Anywhere Network Scorecard: Communications Service Providers report, which explores the progress communications service providers have made to date in transforming their businesses to profit from the global Anywhere Network. The Anywhere Network is Yankee Group's vision...
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Consumers Prefer Bundled Telco Services, Says CFI Group
Consumers would prefer to bundle communications services with telecommunication companies by a 2 to 1 margin to cable companies if given the choice, according to the second annual Telecom-Cable Industry Satisfaction Study from CFI Group. However, cable companies still provide...
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46% of Cell Phone Users Use Phones for Entertainment, Says Artificial Life
A recent survey by Artificial Life, of U.S. cell phone users revealed that 46 percent use their devices for entertainment purposes. The survey of 200 respondents showed 87.5 percent of those who own smartphones access entertainment content, such as music,...
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iPhone #1 Top Selling Smartphone, Says Fierce Wireless
Fierce Wireless reports that the top 5 selling smartphones are: Apple iPhone 3G (8GB model) Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 8100 Pearl Motorola Q Samsung BlackJack II SGH-i617 Samsung BlackJack SGH-i607 AT&T is the top carrier for smartphone growth, helped by...
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IDC Survey Says, "Don't Cap Bandwidth"
A survey by International Data Corporation (IDC) for Zeugma Systems yielded results at odds with the views of many telecom policy makers and industry observers. On Bandwidth Capping and Metering 81 percent do not like the idea of establishing a...
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Democrats Use More Mobile Data, Txt, MMS, Web than Reps, Says Nielsen
Nielsen Mobile reports that mobile media was slightly more popular with Democrats than Republicans, as of Q2 2008. Overall, 62% of Democrats are data users who use one or more data service on their mobile phone (compared to 55% of...
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100 M Moble Int'l Money Transfers by 2013, Migration Routes Tops, Says Juniper
Juniper Research analysis shows the rapidly evolving market for money transfer and remittances via mobile phones. They forecast that in excess of 100m users globally will use their mobile phones to make international money transfers by 2013. These cross border...
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Verizon & Nokia Siemens Reached 10 Gbps in Tests
Verizon and Nokia Siemens Networks are getting closer to being able to transmit commercial traffic at a speed of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). The two companies carried out a successful 100 Gbps transmission on a single wavelength for more...
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Mobile Data Services Big, Says Chetan Sharma
Global Wireless Markets continued to grow rapidly especially in India and China where the carriers are adding over 9M new subscriptions every month. India crossed the 300M subscription mark in Aug while China whizzed past 600M in September, says Chetan...
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Ericsson Ranked Best, Followed by Nokia Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent, Says ABI
Ericsson has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of worldwide mobile network infrastructure vendors....
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Election Polls Landline Biased, Says Pew Research.
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has conducted three major election surveys a vrtually identical pattern is seen across all three surveys: In each case, including cell phone interviews resulted in slightly more support for Obama...
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Ultra Mobile Internet Devices, aka Netbooks Will Exceed 200 Million in 2013, Says ABI
Starting off with just 10 million units in 2008, shipments of ultra-mobile devices (UMDs — the umbrella term for ultra-mobile PCs, netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices) are expected to exceed 200 million in 2013. According to ABI Research principal analyst...
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Cafés & London Top Wi-Fi Hotspots, Says iPass
iPass Inc., released the latest edition of the iPass Mobile Broadband Index, which tracks the wireless use patterns of mobile workers around the world. The report shows worldwide business use of iPass Wi-Fi hotspots increased by 46% from the first...
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Smaller Sites 2 Drive Mobile Web Traffic, Says Opera
People use their mobile devices to access a wide range of sites, according to Opera Software's State of the Mobile Web report. While big destinations such as google.com and facebook.com get significant attention and traffic on the mobile web, it...
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Confounded Mobile Industry Booms in Turmoil, Says Portico
Despite turmoil in world financial markets over the last year the trillion USD mobile industry continues to confound expectations with spectacular accelerating growth. A new report from Portio Research reveals that over half the world now uses a mobile phone...
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Study Shows Cell Phones Decrease Sperm Quality
Radio-frequency electromagnetic waves from cell phones in talk mode may cause decreased sperm quality in men, according to a new study by researchers at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at Cleveland Clinic in the journal Fertility and Sterility. The...
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Nokia May Win Over iTunes, Says Strategy Analytics
In Strategy Analytics' report, "Can Nokia Challenge Apple's Digital Music Dominance," Nokia's potentially game-changing service, "Comes with Music," that bundles music access with mobile phones is examined. The major drivers for mobile music are in place, but service adoption has...
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Google HTC Androids - 4 % US Q4 Smartphones, Says Strategy Analytics
Research from Strategy Analytics predicts the Google Android operating system will account for 4 percent of all smartphones sold in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2008.Strategy Analytics, forecasts s10.5 million smartphones to be sold in the United...
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Over 1 Million ChaCha Mobile Searchers
Winner of 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation, ChaCha now has more than a million users and has answered more than 27 million queries since it its launch January. This, combined with its quarterly growth rate...
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20 Txt@Day from Gen Y & Teens Watch Mobile TV, Says Knowledge Networks
How People Use Cell Phones, a new study from Knowledge Networks shows: Three in five (60%) mobile phone owners say they carry their phones at all times, even inside the home -- up 50% since a 2002 KN analysis; 32%...
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1 in 5 Households Could be Landlineless in 2008, Says Nielsen
A new study from The Nielsen Company reports that more than 20 million U.S. telephone households (17 percent) are wireless substitutors--homes without landlines that rely solely on a mobile phone for their home telecommunications. The new research is from...
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Users Like Contactless Payments & Would Switch Carriers to Pay, Says Smart Card Alliance
The Smart Card Alliance is saying that when consumers try contactless payments they like. New research commissioned by the Smart Card Alliance showed nine percent of the U.S. population now has a contactless credit or debit card. Last year the...
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US Smartphone Revs UP 84% : RIM Tops, Says NPD Group
According to The NPD Group, consumer sales of smartphones to U.S. consumers reached 9 million units from January through July 2008 versus the same time period last year - a year-over-year increase of 84 percent. The consumer unit-sales ranking of...
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BlackBerry Tops & Apps Make Lives Easier, Says Handango Yardstick
Handango released the First Half 2008 Handango Yardstick,The Games category leaped from fourth place at year-end 2007 into the second spot behind the Entertainment category, for the first time in Yardstick history. Categories focused on "killing time" are now surpassing...
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Mobile Search up 68 & 38 % in US and Europe, Says comScore
comScore, Inc. says that mobile search is gaining in popularity and frequency of use in the U.S. and Western Europe. comScore reports that in June 2008, 20.8 million U.S. mobile subscribers and 4.5 million European mobile phone subscribers accessed search...
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User Generated Content to Be Ad Funded Revs $7.3 Billion in 2013, Says Juniper
Ad-funded social networks will provide the bulk of revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report says that the total value of the UGC market -...
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U.S. Mobile Ads to Reach $1,893.5 Million in 2012, Says Frost & Sullivan
With a mobile penetration rate of nearly 85 percent, the U.S. mobile operators have a customer base of almost 250 million waiting to be tapped for mobile advertising revenues. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (wireless.frost.com), U.S. Mobile Advertising and...
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Base Stations to Grow to 5.2 million in 2013, Says ABI
2008 is delivering mixed results for mobile infrastructure vendors such as Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent. "Spending on radio access network infrastructure equipment is expected to grow just 3.4% in 2008 to $53.9 billion by the end of the...
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46% of Tweens Use Cell Phones / 55% Text, Says Nielsen
The Nielsen Company released findings from the newly launched Mobile Kids Insights, an enhanced report profiling the mobile activities and preferences of U.S. "tweens" (ages 8-12) --a population segment of 20 million young consumers who represent a significant opportunity in...
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Nokia and RIM Top, iPhone Fastest Growing, Says AdMob
AdMob, highlighted the rapid and global growth of smartphone usage in their August 2008 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. The anticipated launch of new smartphones in the coming months, including the first of Google's Android phones, the RIM Bold, and the...
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Touchscreen Revs to Reach $5 Billion in 2009, Says ABI
Touchscreens have been available for some time and are found in a variety of fixed and portable devices, but it was the launch of Apple’s iPhone that refocused the public’s attention on them as never before. Shipments in 2007 of...
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JD Power Ranks Call Quality - Verizon Scores High
Alltel, Sprint Nextel, U.S. Cellular and Verizon Wireless each rank highest in wireless call quality in their respective regions, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study--Volume 2.The semi-annual study measures wireless call quality based...
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GPS Hottest Feature for Xmas, Says IMS Research
A bumper Christmas market is set to make GPS the hottest new feature in the cellular market. Taking the huge CDMA GPS market aside, GPS-enabled handsets are set to greatly outnumber PND shipments in 2008. In its latest report, "The...
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UK Consumers Want NFC Says O2 Wallet Study
The results from Europe’s largest trial of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology on a mobile phone reveal a consumer demand for such services. Nine out of ten trialists were happy using NFC technology on a mobile phone and 78% said...
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32.2 Million World Smartphone Sales, Say Gartner
Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. In addition, of all mobile device sales, smartphones' share remained stable at...
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58% Don't Know What Social Networking Is, 1/3 Losing Interest, Says Synovate
Across 17 markets of the world, well over half the population (58%) do not know what social networking is, according to a study released today by leading global market intelligence firm, Synovate. Global head of media research for Synovate, Steve...
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Biz Will Spend $11.6 Billion on Mobile Apps by 2012, Says CompassIntelligence
According to new research from CompassIntelligence.com, businesses in the US will spend roughly $11.6 billion on mobile applications by 2012. This year US businesses are expected to spend an estimated $4.9 billion on mobile applications. These applications include mobile and...
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Coupons, Freebies, and Ringtone Incentives Help Mobile Marketing, Says ABI
While most consumers’ initial reactions to marketing and advertising messages on their mobile phone can often be negative, a recent survey from ABI Research finds that their level of responsiveness can often be improved through incentives. In fact, approximately 37%...
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Nielsen Consumer-Segments Researh with Mobile PRIZM
The Nielsen Company today launched Mobile-PRIZM, a new product offering that combines the company’s consumer segmentation and mobile media targeting tools, thereby helping advertisers target mobile audiences more effectively. The new tool brings together the resources of Nielsen Mobile, the...
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Mobile Teens Will Be Studied by Multimedia Intelligence & Experian
MultiMedia Intelligence and Experian Consumer Research have recently joined forces to examine the teen (12-17 years old) population using wireless phone services, providing a detailed analysis of this consumer segment. Teenagers are some of the most avid and trend-inspired users...
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US Catches Up to Europe's 3G Adoption
comScore, Inc. reported that after a slower start, the United States has caught up with Western Europe in the adoption of 3G with 28.4 percent of American mobile subscribers having 3G devices versus 28.3 percent in the largest countries in...
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Mobile Web Grows 29.4%, Film Search Leads, Says Crisp Wireless
Crisp Wireless announced results from its Second Quarter '08 Crisp Wireless Index (CWI). Among the key findings in the Index, mobile web usage continues to grow significantly with a 29.4% increase from 1Q08 to 2Q08. The index is a quarterly...
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Mobile Payments to Grow Ten Fold by 2013, Says Juniper Research
Purchases via mobile devices of digital and physical goods, contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions and money transfers will together generate transactions worth over $600bn globally by 2013, according to Juniper Research’s Mobile Payments Study. This figure represents the gross...
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225.9 Million Sybmian Units Shipped in Q2 2008
Symbian Highlights - Q2 2008 as at 30 June 2008 225.9 million cumulative Symbian OS units shipped across 249 different phone models since the formation of Symbian During Q2, 19.6 million Symbian mobile phones shipped to consumers worldwide an increase...
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iPhone Web Browsing Increased 58%, Says Market Share
Market Share by Net Applications reports that iPhone web browsing usage share increased 58% in One Month With the continued rollout of the iPhone 3G version, web browsing usage share increased 58% from July(0.19%) to August (0.30%) October, 2007 0.07% ...
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140 Million Mobile Social Networkers in 2013, Says ABI
Online social networking is huge and growing strongly, but what happens when all those virtual friends hit the road? Increasingly, they will be able to keep in touch via mobile versions of their favorite social networks, running on their cellular...
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Global Mobile TV Subs 2 Grow @ CAGR >60% 2007-2010
RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, "Global Mobile TV Forecast to 2010" to its report gallery. The convergence of television and mobile phones has resulted in an ultimate wireless application known as Mobile TV - a...
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>Third of Over-Thirties Fed-Up with Mobile UI's, Says Bowen
More than a third of mainstream consumers over the age of 30 experience deep frustration associated with their cell phone's interface according to a study revealed today by Bowen Research, a firm that researches and evaluates consumer attitudes and behavior...
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World's Mobile Content Tools to Top $8 Billion in '08, Says Insight Research
Music and electronic game publishers, television broadcasters, video production companies, content aggregators, and telecommunications carriers worldwide are expected to spend more than $8 billion on the tools needed to create, edit, manage, and load various forms of content onto mobile...
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Runtime and Capacity Top Elements 4 Batteries, Says Nexergy Survey
An engineering and marketing survey conducted by Nexergy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of battery packs and chargers, identifies runtime and battery capacity as the most important factors in selecting battery chemistry and technology in portable products. The survey also indicated...
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Olympic Roaming Data Surged, Says Aicent
Wireless data roaming turned in a gold medal performance according to data released today from Aicent, Inc. ( www.aicent.com). With mobile phones from international GSM and CDMA networks accessing the Internet, sending pictures, videos and e-mails, it was the data...
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Telecoms Should Take Advantage of Multiple Delivery Channels, says Gartner
Telecom carriers around the world are turning their attention to advertising as a potential source of revenue, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner forecasts that the worldwide mobile advertising market alone will be worth over $12 billion by 2011 but advised...
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Verisign Verifies There's a Whole Lot of TXTing Going On
VeriSign announced another record-breaking quarter for mobile messaging, based on the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by VeriSign’s Messaging and Mobile Media division. Through June 30, 2008, VeriSign’s combined mobile messaging networks delivered 95.4 billion Inter-carrier Short...
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AT&T Connect Web/Video Conferencing Called Leader by Gartner
Gartner, Inc. has positioned AT&T in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2008 "Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing." Gartner positioned AT&T Connect in the Leaders Quadrant in its annual review of Web conferencing and collaboration services for enterprise businesses. AT&T Connect...
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Nokia Mobs Mobile Web Browsing, Says AdMob
AdMob released July Mobile Metrics Report. The report includes mobile browser share. Nokia and Openwave are the top browsers worldwide with 34% and 29% share, respectively. Globally Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Palm, and Safari (Apple) all had less than 5% market...
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Newspaper Readers Decline - Online and Smartphone Readership UP, Says Pew
According to Pew Research Center for People and the Press, news audiences blend online and traditional sources. The good news for Wireless and Mobile News is that online news reading is increasing. The diversity of news audience segments identified reflects...
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50% "Would only use FREE Wi-Fi," Says In-Stat
The number of hotspots providing public wireless LAN access continues to grow globally and more people are using them, reports In-Stat . But access revenues do not appear to be keeping up with the growth in use, the high-tech...
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Over 50 Million HSPA 3G Users in the World, Says GMSA
GSMA estimates the number of worldwide subscribers using Mobile Broadband (HSPA) networks has topped the 50 million mark from 11 million one year ago. Global uptake of HSPA technology among consumers and businesses is accelerating, indicating continued traffic growth...
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Users Want Free Mobile TV to Watch Olympics in Transport & Emerging Countries, Says Telegent Systems
Telegent Systems, released the results of a global survey conducted to assess consumer interest in watching the 2008 Beijing Games on mobile handsets around the world. Conducted in nine countries, including China, Brazil, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, the United...
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103 Million FMCs by 2013, Says ABI
The fixed-mobile convergence market (FMC) is on the brink of very interesting times, according to analysts at ABI Research. UMA-based Wi-Fi dual-mode solutions have seen some significant penetration in both Europe and North America thanks to successful market introductions...
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Fewer Phones @ Higher Prices & More Features Sold in Q2, Says NPD
According to The NPD Group, , mobile phone handset sales to consumers in the U.S. totaled 28 million units in the second quarter (Q2) of 2008, which is a 13 percent decline since the same period a year ago. NPD...
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13 Million Mobile Data Card Users with 43% @Home, Says Nielsen
Though often thought to be the power tool of the business road warrior, wireless data card are fast becoming a popular means of home Internet access. Nielsen Mobile, a service of The Nielsen Company, in its first report on mobile...
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$4.7 Billion Big Bucks for Ringback Tones by 2012, Says Multimedia Intelligence
Ringback tones are on track to become the most attractive mobile content category by 2012, according to new market research from MultiMedia Intelligence. With worldwide revenue nearly tripling to $4.7 Billion, ringback tones will fall just short of mobile gaming...
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EV-DO Rev A Subs to Excedd 54 Million by 2013, Says ABI Research
Although the overall dynamics of CDMA markets are overshadowed by the hype around UMTS/HSPA and the migration to LTE, CDMA operators continue to upgrade their networks to provide capacity for higher numbers of bandwidth-intensive data services, as well as escalating...
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Smartphones, GPS & Touchscreen Increase in EMEA, Says Canalys
An report from Canalys shows: EMEA smart phone shipments reached 12.6 million in Q2 2008, up 28% on the figure one year ago Growth slowed from Q1 2008, when it was 44%, to the lowest figure seen for 18 months...
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Next-Gen Mobile Banking and Payment Changes Game for Banks and Payments Companies, Says Tower Group
New Tower Group research finds that the accelerating investments being made in mobile payment platforms will be a disruptive industry force. As a consequence, TowerGroup believes the emerging revolution occurring for sending and receiving remittances may well undercut existing fee...
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Customers Hold Times for Wireless Phone Customers Reach an All-Time High, Says J.D. Power
Wireless phone customers who call their provider when experiencing a problem are waiting on hold longer than in the past to speak with a service representative, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study—Volume 2....
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Text Messaging Gets the Vote Out
An article in the New York Times recalls an important study from the Student PIRGs' New Voters Project and Working Assets, in cooperation with researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University, released a study demonstrating the effectiveness of...
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India Leads Over UK & US for Mobile Ads - TXT Tops, Says Limbo & GfK
Mobile social community Limbo and GfK Technology, have released the latest joint Mobile Advertising Report (MAR). The second quarter report shows that a high percentage of mobile phone users in the US, UK and India indicate they are receiving...
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Teen In-Depth Study Presented at CTIA Wireless & I.T. 9/12
The teenage market continues to play a leading role in shaping the direction and future of the wireless industry, and CTIA - The Wireless Association is working in conjunction with Harris Interactive to learn more about this vital consumer segment....
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Bluetooth Device Shipments Will Increase 26%, Says In-Stat
Bluetooth seems to have reached a maturation period with growth rates that, while strong, do not match the growth of the recent past, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). The Bluetooth chip market should benefit as new standards, such as Low-energy and High-speed...
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Mobile Message Spending > $88 Billion by 2012, Says Strategy Analytics
Total spending on mobile messaging services by consumers will rise 15% from $65 billion in 2007 to over $88 billion by 2012, according to a new Strategy Analytics report, "Global Mobile Messaging Forecast 2007 - 2012." Although SMS will continue...
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Internet Speed Matters, Says Speed Matters
Speed Matters released its second annual state-by-state Internet speed report, and the results show the U.S. still has a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world. The report found the average U.S. Internet...
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Findlaw Finds 48% of Divers 18-24 Sent TXT
Nearly half of the drivers between ages 18 and 24 say they have sent a text message, instant message or e-mail while driving, according to a new survey by FindLaw.com The survey found that 48 percent of drivers between the...
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Moto & LG Tops - BlackBerry Blows Past 10 % in US, Says Strategy Analytics
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, mobile phone shipments in the United States defied the economic gloom and grew 5 percent annually, to reach 42 million units during Q2 2008. Motorola had a strong quarter and maintained its...
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US Data Market Grew 40% in Q2, Says Chetan Sharma
According to Chetan Sharma Consulting, the US wireless data market grew 40% in Q208 compared to Q207 to reach $8.2B in data revenues. The total for 2008 stands at $15.7B for the first six months, 38% higher than the total...
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iTunes Still Top Music Retailer, Says NPD Group
According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, the five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 (January through June, based on purchases of CDs and a-la-carte digital music downloads) ranked as...
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3x More Mobile Subs than Land-Liners, Says Infonetics Research
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports there were 3 times more mobile subscribers than access line subscribers worldwide in 2007 (3.3 billion vs. 1.1 billion), and expects continued strong growth in mobile subscribers, mainly driven by basic voice service...
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High Interest in Olympic Games on UK & US Mobile Phones, Says Nielsen
Nielsen Mobile estimates that 44.7% of mobile video users and 22.6% of mobile internet users in the US are likely to follow the Olympics on their cell phone this summer, compared to 31.3% and 17.2% of mobile video and...
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Mobile Video Should Be Free, says Parks Associates
While nearly one-third of U.S. households have a video-capable mobile phone, operators are struggling to find an audience for their mobile video services, according to Mobile TV: Analysis & Forecast (Second Edition). This new report by market research firm...
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iPhone 3G Grows While Blackberry Still Has Lead & Potential, Says ChangeWave
Two weeks before the new iPhone 3G iPhone was released, a ChangeWave consumer survey showed it was likely to have a tsunami-like impact on the smartphone market. A new survey, however shows RIM fighting back. BlackBerry users are eagerly awaiting...
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Luxury Designer Phones > $43 Billion in 2013, Says ABI Research
Dior recently introduced its own line of in-house designed mobile phones. Other prestige brands are also adding cellular handsets to their product lines. As personal items used frequently in public, mobile handsets can take on a powerful symbolism, representing the...
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1.28 Billion Mobile Phones Sold in 2008, Says Gartner
Worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008, an 11 per cent increase from last year, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2007, worldwide mobile phone sales reached 1.15 billion units. Worldwide mobile phone sales in...
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2.1 Billion Pay-By-Mobile Subscribers by 2013, Says Juniper Research
A new analysis of the global mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 2.1billion mobile subscribers will "pay by mobile" for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones by 2013. Juniper Research defines digital goods as music (ringtones and full tracks),...
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Embedded 4G Key for Built-in Market, Says Unstrung Insider
A major push to include embedded 4G technologies in a wide range of mobile and consumer devices will create a built-in market for anticipated 4G services such as mobile WiMax and LTE, but it also will force some fundamental...
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LBS Social Networking Revenue $3.3 Billion by 2013, Says ABI Research
The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify...
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Mobile Data Will Reach $100 Billion in 2017, Says SNL Kagan
According to SNL Kagan’s latest wireless projections, the recent launch of Apple’s iPhone 3G along with new smar-phone offerings from other providers is setting the stage for mobile data to dominate the U.S. wireless industry. SNL Kagan expects mobile data...
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Global Handsets Up 15% in Q2, Says Strategy Analytics
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile handset shipments grew a healthy 15 percent year-over-year, to reach 297 million units in Q2 2008. Motorola surprised and held off LG to maintain the third spot in our global...
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Mobile Devices Still Growing, 1.3 Billion in 2008, Says ABI
In the second quarter of 2008, Tier One handset vendors enjoyed year-over-year unit shipment growth of between 15 and 22 percent. ABI Research estimates that 301 million units were shipped during the quarter and therefore reaffirms its forecast that the...
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2400% Revenue Increase from Wireless Broadband by 2015, Says Analysys Mason
Wireless broadband services will create significant opportunities for revenue growth, and cellular technologies will take the largest share, according to the latest report from Analysys Mason, the premier advisers on telecoms, IT and digital media. Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband...
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Teen Girls More Mobile Phones & Maturity than Boys, Says Multimedia Intelligence
In 2007, 91% of US 17-year-old girls had mobile phones whereas only 78% of US 17-year-old boys had cell phones according to a recent study by MultiMedia Intelligence. The difference is quite striking as there is little difference in handset...
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Over 230 Million Touchscreen Mobile Phones by 2012
Touchscreen-equipped mobile handsets sales have been building steadily for over a year now, and a new report from IMS Research forecasts that growth will become even stronger. Although there were fewer than 30 million touchscreen phones sold in 2007, IMS...
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Highly Satisfied Flat-Rate Unlimited Plan Cusomters
Overall satisfaction among prepaid wireless customers who subscribe to flat-rate plans with unlimited minutes is considerably higher than that of customers who subscribe to per-minute price plans, primarily due to cost advantages associated with flat-rate plans, according to the J.D....
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Consumers Want to Make Mobile Web Payments
BuzzCity revealed the results of worldwide research conducted with users on their portal, myGamma. Wireless consumers are eager to access new services via the mobile internet. From m-commerce to mobile banking, respondents seem keen to explore all available options,...
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SMS Global Rev $177 Billion in 2013, Says ABI Research
SMS will continue to lead as the highest revenue generator across all messaging categories, providing global revenues of $177 billion in 2013. Regional differences will determine the success of messaging expansion into the Web, advertising, and the incorporation of mobile...
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Mobile Browser Market to Reach $492 Million by 2013, Says ABI
As consumers increasingly surf the Web on their mobile phones, handset vendors are looking toward open-source browsers such as WebKit - the browser engine at the heart of the iPhone's Safari browser - as a way to bring it...
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Text Messaging Tops with Mobile Marketers, Says DMA
The Direct Marketing Association released the mobile marketing research. The online survey indicated that text messaging is by far the most often cited mobile marketing method -- accounting for 70 percent of consumer mobile marketing responses - compared to a...
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Wi-Fi Hotspots Hotter Than Ever with 40% Growth Over 2007, Says ABI Research
Wi-Fi hotspots are continuing to grow greatly in 2008. According to ABI Research's WI-FI Hotspots Forecasts, by the end of this year global hotspots will grow by 40% over 2007. The greatest growth and the largest number of hotspots...
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SMS Top Way to Access Video, Says Avot Media
Avot Media, released its mobile video user survey in which more than four hundred mobile device users answered an online survey after viewing a video via their mobile phones. Results of the study revealed that mobile video is in demand...
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$75 Billion in NFC Payments by 2013, Syas Juniper Research
A new analysis of the NFC mobile payments opportunity from Juniper Research forecasts that the gross transaction value of payments made via NFC contactless technology, for relatively low value purchases (such as refreshments, tickets and food), will exceed $75bn globally...
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iPhone 3G a Big Hit with Search & AT&T, Says Hitwise
According to Hitwise, because of the launch of the new iPhone, consumers are interested in more than just price, as shown in the diversity of search terms around the new iPhone. Among the top 200 search term suggestions for the...
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Mobile Internet Subscribers Reach 95 Million, Says Nielsen 3 Screen Report
Upon reviewing the latest Nielsen 3 Screen Report, some mobile data looks interesting: As of Q1 2008, 91 million (36% of all mobile phone subscribers in the U.S.) owned a video-capable phone. As more subscribers upgrade to phones capable of...
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Camera, Bluetooth, & Music Tops for Mobile Phone Buyers, Says ABI Research
Digital camera, Bluetooth, and music/radio playback on mobile phones are the top three features that consumers consider essential for the next mobile phone they will purchase, according to a recent ABI Research survey of 1,402 current wireless subscribers in...
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Mobile Video > $3.5 Billion in 2008, Says MultiMedia Intelligence
Consumers are demanding more personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, driving mobile video revenue to exceed $3.5 billion in 2008, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence. By 2012, the mobile video and mobile TV market will...
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Mobile Video Viewing Increasing, Says Nielsen 3 Screen Report
The Nielsen Company released figures showing video and TV usage across the 'three screens' - Television, Internet and Mobile devices. While the number of mobile video users is relatively small at about 4 million, the video usage these early...
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Consumers Intend to Buy Mobile Phones & MP3 Players, Says Ipsos MediaCT
Consumers have strong intentions to buy mobile devices this year, according to research conducted by Ipsos MediaCT. Consumers in 11 key markets around the world, especially the fast-growing economies of India, China, and Brazil, have strong demand for mobile devices--including...
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1.98 Million BWA/WiMAX Subs in Q4 2008, Says Maravedis
The global BWA/WiMAX subscriber base increased by 260,246 in the first quarter of 2008, reaching a total of 1,988,246 subscribers according to the 4th issue of the WiMAXCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis. There was an increase of more than...
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Asia Pacific PND Will Eclipse Rest of World Market, Says ABI Research
"2007 was 'the year of the personal navigation device'," says ABI Research principal analyst Dominique Bonte. Handset-based navigation also fared well, and there was a renewed interest in outdoor GPS devices. New form factors emerged. High-profile mergers and acquisitions redrew...
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Memory Slotted Phones to Reach 1.04 Billion in 2011, Says Strategy Analytics
The Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service predicts that shipments of phones equipped with removable memory card slots will grow at an average 13% per year over the next five years, hitting 1.04 billion phones in 2011. The report, “Removable...
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DVD Still Tops for Video, Mobile Spending Low, Says Knowledge Networks
A just-released study from Knowledge Networks reveals that while consumers are indeed turning to new video technologies - such as online streaming and mobile video - most of their video-related spending continues to be on conventional sources such as DVD...
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Reducing Power Consumption Is Good for Planet and Profits, Says ABI
Over the next few years the growing cost of bulk diesel fuel, coupled with wholesale electricity price increases, are likely to offset significant gains in cellular base station power efficiency. This will result in a collective network OPEX of $22...
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Texting and Camera Tops for Cell Phone Buyers, Says Ampltitude Research
According to a survey of cell phone users commissioned by ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. and conducted by independent research firm Amplitude Research, buyers of new cell phones view accessing the Internet (61%) and email capabilities (63%) as most important features...
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Mobile Payments for Goods > $300 Billion by 2013, Says Juniper Research
A new analysis of mobile payments by Janiper Research forecasts that the gross transaction value of payments made via mobile phone for digital goods (such as music, tickets and games) and physical goods (typically gifts and books) will exceed $300bn...
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Teens Overule in Mobile Market - Saturation Point Soon, Says MultiMedia Intelligence.
he US 12-17 teen cellular subscribers surpassed 16 million in 2007, according to market research and consultancy firm MultiMedia Intelligence. This is up 12% from 2006. By 2012, the number of teen subscribers will reach 17 million, a delta of...
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Over Half of World's Population Will Be Using Mobile Phones by 2010, Says Strategy Analytics
Worldwide mobile subscriptions will rise from 3.9 billion in 2008 to 5.6 billion in 2013, according to a new Strategy Analytics report, “Worldwide Cellular User Forecasts, 2008-2013.” Discounting for people with more than one subscription, more than half of the...
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Mobi-Game Revs Will Reach $4.5 Million in 2008, Says Gartner
Worldwide mobile gaming revenue is expected to total $4.5 billion in 2008, a 16.1 percent increase from 2007 revenue of $3.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. While mobile gaming revenue will continue to lag behind other value-added entertainment services -...
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Surge in Wireless Data Usage Expected in N.A. Mobile Market
Although the mobile communications market in North America is close to saturation, wireless data usage is likely to go up. Mobile service providers are expected to push for wireless networks as the primary means of communications, says Research in Markets. In...
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Small Biz Big Smartphone Usage, Says AMI Partners
Once geared towards enterprise usage, smartphones today have approximately 31% of U.S. small businesses (SBs, or companies with up to 99 employees) utilizing vendors such as RIM, Palm, Motorola for e-mail accessibility or mobile calendar and contact information on top...
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Increase Revenues with Accessories, Says NPD Group
According to The NPD Group, a consumer market research company for the wireless industry, there was a 20 percent decline in year-over-year mobile phone handset purchases made by consumers in the U.S. from January through April 2008; however, a survey...
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Cellular Modem Shipments Increased 300%, Says ABI Research
In 2007, cellular modem shipments increased by more than 300% over 2006. Not only was the dramatic increase remarkable, but interestingly USB modems accounted for over half of the shipments. Growth drivers included continued expansion of 3G cellular networks, and...
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Will Increased Bandwidth Break the Net? Yes/No Says Telco Pros
Telecommunications professionals are split down the middle on whether increasing bandwidth demands are likely to break the Internet, according to a new survey released today. The survey showed half of respondents saying bandwidth demands will eventually break the Internet, with...
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Venture Capitalists Go Ga-Ga Over Content, Says KPMG
With a focus on mobile and online applications, venture capitalists expect to increase their investment in content creation for the digital entertainment sector over the next two years, and see increased M&A activity in the coming year, according to a...
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9.2 Million US Mobile Subscribers Buy Via Their Cell Phones, Says Nielsen
According to The Nielsen Company, Already, 9 million US mobile subscribers say they have used their mobile phone to pay for goods or services, and half of all data users (49 percent) say they expect to participate in mobile commerce...
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Users Trust Their Banks More than their Telecoms, Says Unisys
The cell phone is practically universal, with more than 3.3 billion subscribers worldwide, yet 71 percent of all consumers surveyed in 14 countries will not consider using a mobile device to bank or shop online, according to a study released...
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Obama, Heath Ledger & Britney Spears Top Search on Mobiles, Says Crisp
Crisp Wireless announced the introduction of the Crisp Wireless Index (CWI), a quarterly barometer of consumer activity online via mobile devices based on usage across sites of select publishers in the Crisp Network. According to the inaugural Crisp Wireless Index,...
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Obama Won Virgin Mobile Election Poll - Text Voting in the Future?
Virgin Mobile USA announced results of the first "Virgin Mobile USA Election Issues Poll," a national SMS-based mobile survey that asked about the key contenders and issues in the run-up to November. Not surprisingly, considering Virgin Mobile USA's historical focus...
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Cell Phone People Tracking for Research Raises Privacy Concerns
A Northeastern University study tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the U.S. via their cell phone usage (without the users consent) and tracking devices. They found that people don’t move around that much. Most (almost 3/4) stayed within a...
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RIM Dominates Smartphone Market Says ChangeWave
A new ChangeWave survey reveals a still soft corporate IT spending environment, although Research In Motion remains a very big exception as it continues to dominate the smartphone market. Corporate Market: RIM s. Palm vs. Apple Future Smartphone Buyers The...
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Linux Will Take 23% of Smartphone Market by 2013, Says ABI
The recent raft of announcements made by the LiMo Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance indicate that incumbent smartphone OS software vendors will soon face a serious challenge, deriving from two technically competent and coalesced Linux consortia. The LiMo foundation...
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Worldwide Phone Sales Increased Western Europe Decreased, Says Gartner
Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached 294.3 million units in the first quarter of 2008, a 13.6 per cent increase over the first quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. Sales of mobile phones in Western Europe decreased 16.4 per...
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Higher Prices for Phone, Sony Highest Ranked for Satisfaction, Says JD Power
The average reported purchase price for wireless mobile phones is now $9 higher than reported in 2007, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study(SM)-Volume 1. The study finds that the average reported purchase...
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900M Users for Mobile Banking & Payment Services in 2012, Says IMS Research
The latest figures from IMS Research show the combined forecasts for users of contactless mobile payments, mobile banking and over the air (OTA) transactions to reach 884 million in 2012. This is the cumulative number of users expected to adopt...
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Ad-Funded Moible US Entertainment to Reach $336.35 Million by 2013, Says MEF
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has published a report that takes an in-depth look into the impact of ad-funded mobile entertainment (AFME) on the mobile entertainment market in the U.S. The report forecasts that the U.S. AFME market will...
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Wireless Broadband & Voice >$427 Billion by 2016
CTIA-The Wireless Association released a new study that reveals the massive positive impact wireless broadband technology is having on the United States economy. The independent report, commissioned by CTIA and prepared by analyst Roger Entner as a follow-up to a...
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43 Billion Text Messages, Verifies VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc, a provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world, announced that its Mobile Messaging Index for Q1 2008 indicates single-day and quarterly mobile messaging records have been broken. In addition, the numbers strongly suggest that the annual mobile...
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Cellular Modem Sales Up 300% from 2006, Says ABI
Boosted by 3G network deployments, cellular modems are providing wireless connectivity to laptops, UMPCs and even desktop computers. 2007 data contained in a new study from ABI Research reveals that cellular modem sales, including PC Cards, Express Cards, USB modems,...
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By 2015 Most Revenue from Data, Says Research and Markets
Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Global - Mobile Data - Overview & Analysis - 2007” to their offering. By 2015 it is expected that mobile revenue will mostly come from data. This depends however on business models...
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Hands-Free Law Enforcement Needed, Says PPIC
The law requiring California drivers to use hands-free devices while talking on their mobile phones is likely to save hundreds of lives a year, particularly when the weather is bad or roads are wet, according to a new study released...
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Global Awarenss of Bluetooth at All Time High, Says Milward Brown
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has more to celebrate this week than just the 10th anniversary of its launch. According to an annual survey conducted by research firm Millward Brown, global awareness of Bluetooth technology is at an all...
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Verizon Biz Customers Most Satisfied, Says J.D. Power
Verizon Wireless ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction for wireless data service, effectively meeting customer expectations and requirements of both large enterprise and small/midsize business segments, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Satisfaction StudySM released...
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74% Want No Cellphone Talking on Planes, Says Harris & Yahoo
Nearly three out of four consumers agree that mobile phone usage on airplanes should be restricted to silent features only according to a new survey commissioned by Yahoo! Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive. The survey demonstrates that U.S....
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Craigslist Top Destination @1.65 Hr/Mo For Smartphone Users, Says M:Metrics
Social networking and Internet commerce are compelling smartphone users to spend an average of four hours and thirty-eight minutes per month browsing the mobile Web in the United States and two and a half hours per month in Britain, reports...
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MilliGens Influence MobiTV Decisions, Says Motorola Study
Motorola announced the initial results of a new study on the influence and behaviors of the Millennial generation (young adults ages 16-27) regarding consumer technology decisions and rich media consumption habits. Motorola's study among 1,000 young adults found that...
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Touch-Screen Shipments Will Double by 2012, Says iSuppli
Spurred by the popularity of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and its elegant user interface, global shipments of touch-screen display modules are expected to more than double from 2008 to 2012, according to iSuppli Corp. Given this strong expected growth, about 60...
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Social Networking Tops, Says Opera Mobile
Opera has released a new report on mobile web usage, State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter, 2008 and social networking is a top dras. Almost 40% of traffic worldwide is to social networks. In some countries, such as the...
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Q1 Handset Revs $2.7 Billion - Down 7% From 2007, Says NPD
According to The NPD Group, , mobile phone handset sales to consumers in the U.S. reached nearly 31 million units in the first quarter of 2008, which is a 22 percent decline since the same period a year ago. NPD...
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Big Changes in Store for Telecoms, Says Gartner
In the next five years the telecom market will change so dramatically and rapidly that government intervention and market engineering will be inevitable in some countries, according to Gartner Inc. At the center of this is the global trend toward...
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Mobile Web 2.0 Worth $22.4 Billion in 2013, Says Juniper Research
The global market for Mobile Web 2.0 will be worth $22.4 Billion in 2013, up from $5.5 Billion currently, according to a new report by Juniper Research. Embracing social networking & User Generated Content (UGC), mobile search and mobile IM...
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Hyperconnected Culture Grows, 38% Take Phone Rather than Wallet, Says IDC
An exploding 'Culture of Connectivity' is forcing enterprises around the world to change the way they do business faster than ever before or risk the opportunities of Hyperconnectivity passing them by. A new global IDC study sponsored by Nortel found...
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