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Posted by on Feb 22, 2013 in Android News, iOS Updates, Mobile | 2 comments

Kindle Fire and iPad Mini Taking Off

Kindle Fire and iPad Mini Taking Off

A new report from ad platform Millennial Media has revealed that tablets alone accounted for a substantial amount of impression growth, with Android devices coming full fledged.  Of the Android devices, the Kindle Fire and Samsung tablets were the two dominant share holders with a combined total of 41% of the tablet market, compared to 58% for Apple.     When taking a look at the screenshot below it’s apparent that the Smartphone share of mobile devices also grew considerably from 68% to 75%.  Non-Phone connected devices (Tablets) also growing 5% and most unsurprisingly, Feature Phones regressing from 17% in 2011, down to 5% in 2012.   Millennial notes that Android continues to take up more places in the top 20 mobile phones list on its platform, while Apple continues to reign as the market leader with its own devices generating oustanding traffic from just the few core devices.  The iPad mini in particular, was among Apple’s strongest performers, growing its share of impressions at an average rate of...

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Posted by on Feb 19, 2013 in Android News, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

China Passes U.S. As World’s Top Smart Device Market

China Passes U.S. As World’s Top Smart Device Market

Well, that certainly didn’t take long.  I thought I just wrote an Article a couple month ago talking about this type of thing.  Probably did.  Not sure where it is.  Let’s continue. Just days into the Chinese New Year’s (Year of the Snake) China has officially passed the U.S. to become the world’s top country for active Android and iOS Smartphones & Tablets. This historic milestone has taken place within only 12months of Flurry reporting China as the the world’s fastest growing smart device market.   In Flurry’s report they have used their entire data set of 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated applications sessions per day across 275,000 applications around the world. They estimate measuring activity acros 90% of the world’s smart devices. As seen the in the chart above, the tipping point didn’t actually occur until the end of January but nonetheless China’s growth curve is consistent whereas the same cannot be said about the U.S.  Flurry estimates that by the end of this month (February) 2013 – China...

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Posted by on Feb 19, 2013 in Apple, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

iOS 7 Features coming to an iDevice near you?

iOS 7 Features coming to an iDevice near you?

With the departure of Apple’s iOS Chief Designer Scott Forstall many expect some big changes on what could be on the way with iOS 7.  This is due largely in part because Jonathan Ive has taken over design responsibilities related to iOS.  At the same time, the criticism for Apple’s aging core iOS apps and highly requested features is going nowhere but up.  Below you’ll find a ‘best of’ possible iOS 7 features we could see in the near future. The one below featured by YouTube User Almanimation shows a ‘Lock Screen Drawer’ feature that gives users easier access to settings.   Another on how a potentially new contact list app might...

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Posted by on Feb 15, 2013 in Apps, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

Supercell overcomes EA to take #1 spot for Top Grossing Game and Company on iOS

Supercell overcomes EA to take #1 spot for Top Grossing Game and Company on iOS

A new report from Newzoo has been released revealing its market breakdown on the US and Northern European mobile sector. In December, EA was ahead of Supercell, thanks to the 9 games it then had in the top 200 (now 10), but last month – in January, the Finnish outfit Supercell bounced back gaining the top spot.   Clash of Clans remained the top grossing individual title in January, while King.com’s Candy Crush Saga crushed it at #2, Supercell’s Hay Day was in #3 which left The Simpsons: Tapped Out at #4 dropping down 2 spots from where it was in December.   When it comes to Google Play on the other hand, things aren’t quite the same – not even close.  With Korea and Japan being the two most valuable Android markets, it’s the Japanese and Korean companies who’re leading the way (as seen in the image below).   GungHo at #1, NAVER at #2, Mobage at #3, and GREE being all the way down at...

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Posted by on Feb 15, 2013 in Apple, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

iOS 6.1 Security Flaw Grants Limited Access to Phone

iOS 6.1 Security Flaw Grants Limited Access to Phone

With Apple’s newest iOS Update and just a few quick steps, it’s not hard to open the phone app on any unlocked iPhone running iOS 6.1. After that, the person can pretty much do anything on your phone, as seen in the video below. As far as HOW someone came across this completely random set of commands to get this result, don’t ask me. The process involves holding down the power button and aborting an emergency call. This flaw causes the phone to load the phone app, giving anyone full access to the dialer, contact list, voicemails, call history, and (photos by editing a contact). Emails or Text messages can also be sent by sharing a contact, and Facetime is accessible through the contacts as well. App had this to say on the matter to TechCrunch, “Apple takes user security very seriously. We are aware of this issue, and will deliver a fix in a future software update.” While it’s not as easy as it looks in the video,...

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Posted by on Feb 15, 2013 in Apps, iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

Bumps latest update will have you saying “so long” to your USB Flash Drives

Bumps latest update will have you saying “so long” to your USB Flash Drives

For those of us who don’t use cloud services already, the ones probably walking around with a little thumb stick in their jean pockets..I have some great news. Really. Have you heard of the App Bump? No? Well you’re about to. In the apps latest update on iOS and Android it allows you to “bump” your phone with your computer to share any file from your phone to computer and vice-versa. I know, sounds awesome right? CEO and Co-Founder David Lieb described the added functionality saying, “we’ve kind of turned Bump into an unlimited and ubiquitous USB drive. So you can throw your USB drive away, as long as you have a phone with Bump on it.” Adding, “What we try to do is build products that ‘normal’ people can really engage with,” “So yeah, you can do all these things if you’re set up on some cloud-syncing solution, but what we find is that normal people don’t really know how to set all that stuff up…we want to...

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Posted by on Feb 14, 2013 in iOS Updates, Mobile | 0 comments

Gree says iOS now 4x more lucrative than just 1 year ago

Gree says iOS now 4x more lucrative than just 1 year ago

Additionally the gaming behemoth Gree also expects Android to grow faster in 2013. Senior Vice President of studio operations, Anil Dharni claimed that, the growing use of the iPad as a gaming device was one of the key factors behind the extreme jump in revenues. In an interview with TechCrunch speaking about the iOS Platform Dharni said,   “It’s 4x and beyond in terms of revenue (compared to a year ago).”   Also adding that Google’s Android still has a ways to go before catching up with iOS in terms of per users monetization, further commenting,   “We feel that Android is going to grow faster this year,”   When discussing Facebook, Dharni hinted at the idea of Facebook becoming a major acquisition channel for developers looking for a good...

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