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Posted by on Feb 2, 2013 in Mobile | 0 comments

Flurry rolls out Crash and Acquisition

Flurry rolls out Crash and Acquisition

Today Flurry started rolling out their user acquisition and crash analytics services. Crash analytics lets developers get automatic alerts on new errors and common crashes. Allowing them to diagnose where these errors are originating from with full stack traces including symbolization. The user acquisition analytics helps app marketers determine their CPA (cost per acquisition) on different cost-per-click and cost-per-install advertising, and e-mail marketing campaigns. They can evaluate the users they get through these different channels based on how long they end up staying with an app, how often they engage with it or how much they spend on it. Both features are free and are part of the same analytics SDK that developers regularly use. The user acquisition is now available on both platforms, but crash analytics is in beta for Android and will come out for iOS later this month. In crash analytics, Flurry faces off against Crashlytics, which Twitter recently acquired. In user acquisition analytics, Apsalar’s ApScience looks at marketing campaigns to see how effective they are. Flurrys...

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Posted by on Feb 2, 2013 in Apple, Mobile | 0 comments

Apple one-ups Samsung to be #1 Mobile Manufacturer in US for Q4 2012

Apple one-ups Samsung to be #1 Mobile Manufacturer in US for Q4 2012

Taking a record 34% market share, Strategy Analytics reported an estimated 17.7 million units shipped during the quarter while Samsung had 32.3% market share, and 16.8 million units shipped. 3rd place went to LG, who was notably far behind both Apple and Samsung with only 9% market share, and 4.7 million units shipped. Despite Apple 1-uping Samsung in Q4 Samsung did in actuality come out on top in the US for the full year of 2012, taking 31.8% market share vs Apple’s...

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Posted by on Feb 2, 2013 in Apps, Mobile | 0 comments

Lumosity hits 35 Million Users and now growing at 100K users a day

Lumosity hits 35 Million Users and now growing at 100K users a day

  When one thinks “mobile games” they usually immediately go in the direction of: Angry Birds, Temple Run, Clash of Clans, – what have you.  Games that are generally, not the most “mentally stimulating” in an educational sense.  Well today, I am happy to see that that Lumosity has hit 35 Million users and, as of January, has been adding 100K new users ever-day.  The company sit at the #1 spot in the education category of Apple’s App Sore for both Free and Top Grossing.  They also have a noteworthy 17 million MAU (monthly active users) in the US.   Having discovered Lumosity WAY back in the day, in 2007 before anyone even knew what an app was, I vividly remember being up late one night after having been burnt out on bother World of Warcraft and Counter Strike, I asked myself, “I wonder if there’s a game online that will make me smarter”.  Lumosity happened to be founded in 2007 and has since received $67 million in funding, including...

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Posted by on Feb 1, 2013 in Apps, Mobile | 0 comments

Temple Run 2 sees 50 Million downloads in under 2 weeks

Temple Run 2 sees 50 Million downloads in under 2 weeks

After announcing earlier last week that Temple Run 2 had over 20 million downloads in its opening weekend Imangi Studios (the creators of Temple Run, and Temple Run 2) announced yesterday that the game has now become the fastest growing mobile game ever with 50 million downloads in under 2 weeks.  This beats the previous record holder “Angry Birds Space” from Rovio which was 50 Million downloads in 35 days and held sine April...

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Posted by on Feb 1, 2013 in Apple, Mobile | 0 comments

New Patent filed by Apple reveals laser projected keyboard & depth perception system

New Patent filed by Apple reveals laser projected keyboard & depth perception system

The patent is described as a depth perception system and laser projection. PatentlyApple highlighted the story earlier yesterday with several possiblities of using cameras and a laser source to determine the distance of an object and implement various applications based on detection of depth. PatentlyApple also described how Apple could use the invention for laser projected keyboard applications (as pictured below):   “In this example, the iMac is able to detect a user approaching it and activate a particular program, application, awake from sleep or power save mode, and the like… In patent FIG. 12, we see a user positioned in front of this future iMac such that the first and second beams 206a, 206b may at least partially intersect the user. The iMac’s updated iSight Camera will be able to determine the distance that the user is from iMac. The depth perception system increases the sensitivity of user detection for the iMac so that it could make a distinction between the user and an occupied chair… In Apple’s patent...

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Posted by on Feb 1, 2013 in Apps, Mobile, Startups | 0 comments

Hipmob aims to be the premier in-app customer service tool

Hipmob aims to be the premier in-app customer service tool

It seems like just a couple days ago I was at the Pulse talk on how they built their front end and back end news delivery service, where I met this lovely lady who told me about machine-learning customer service.  The idea at the time was pretty interesting as I know some companys have yet to even implement human driven customer service chat features on websites.   Sure the feature is quite common on the Web.  But how about for Apps?  Well, Hipmob is making an effort to become “the premier support service for mobile” Co-founder Ayo omojola noted that, there are plenty of tools like Olark and Zendesk for providing similar services on the web, but the mobile market remains underserved.  Sure it may be a little early, after-all, how many times do you actually want to talk with a CSR while you’re playing a game, or chatting with your friend via a social networking app? Probably not that much.  But according to Omojola, “a tool like hipmob...

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Posted by on Feb 1, 2013 in Mobile | 0 comments

1.4 Billion Smartphones in Use by 2013 – ABI Research

1.4 Billion Smartphones in Use by 2013 – ABI Research

Certainly seems like quite a few doesn’t it?  Especially when you take into consideration last year (2012) was the year that Smartphones activations hit 1 billion (as well as Facebooks user base).  The firm predicts that of those 1.4 Billion smartphones there will be 268 Million tablets, 45 Million Windows Phones, 20 Million Blackberry 10’s, and that Android and iOS will continue to lead the way.   ABI Analyst Aapo Markkanen wrote,   “The greatest fear for both Microsoft and BlackBerry is that the initial sales of their smartphones will disappoint and thereby kill off the developer interest, which then would effectively close the window of opportunity on further sales success,”   “Our view is that the installed bases of this scale would be large enough to keep these two in the game.”   Also adding in an interview with TechCrunch:   “Based on our current shipment forecasts, we don’t see the installed base of either BB or WP reaching the double-digits within the next five years,”   “It’ll...

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