Andriod based phones have been sneaking up on the iPhone over the last six months, and it’s adoption by new smartphone subscribers have has finally passed phones with the Apple iOS to grab 27% of the market share of news as opposed to the iOS’s share of 23%. RIM is still up there at the [...]
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It’s official. Google has begun a staggered release of the latest version of its mobile operating system, the Android 2.2, the seventh update to the Android platform (code named Froyo which stands for frozen yoghurt and carries on with Google’s convention of naming their OS after sweet desserts) starting Monday, delivering it via over-the-air update [...]
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Who doesn’t like discounts, and even better if you can receive the discount vouchers on a device that is always with you (it sure makes a pleasant change from all the spam smses that we receive these days). The mobile phone is pretty much our constant companion (at times, much to the dismay of the [...]
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Sure, we all knew mobile gaming is big business, but $11.4 billion worth? That’s what Gartner estimates the market revenues to increase to by 2014. This year, end-users around the world are expected to spend $5.6 billion on mobile gaming, up 19% over 2009 spending (incidentally, mobile gaming contributed a measly 4% to the total [...]
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Morgan Stanley has recently released some reports on the mobile internet: ‘The Mobile Internet Report,’ a massive 424 page tome which explores 8 major themes, ‘The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes,’ a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in the report, and for the ones in a hurry, there is ‘The Mobile Internet [...]
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Given the runaway success of FarmVille on Facebook, it suprising, that Zynga which developed FarmVille has not released FarmVille on the iPhone as yet. Now beating the rest, PlayMesh which had earlier released its iMafia game in January on the iPhone platform has launched iFarm for the iPhone, which, in less than 24 hours jumped [...]
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