Posted by ksteineman on Mar 8, 2013 in Mobile |
One would naturally assume that Enterprises (100+ Employees) above all else would be leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else as leaders in the tablet revolution. According to a Inuit, things may not be so. The company has compiled an infographic which shows the projected growth rate in tablet adoption acros a variety of business sizes between 2011 and 2016. As seen in the infographic below, small companies between 10 and 100 employees account for 78.5% of Tablet growth, while Micro Businesses (under 10 employees) account for 98% (given the business owner themselves is likely the one using it, which to me makes it more of a ‘personal device’...
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 8, 2013 in Mobile |
With Google hitting their first $50 billion year in 2012, it sometimes makes you wonder how they’re doing it. When we think about the massive investments they have in mobile it’s not too far fetched of an idea that someday that much may be coming from just the devices we carry around in our pockets. To add to that, digital ad company WordStream has compiled an Infographic that contains no less than 21 ways Google is monetizing on mobile. From Google Adwords, to its Groupon-like offers, to augmented reality assistant Google Goggles and in the near future..Google Glass. For a full list in visual form of the...
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in Mobile |
Amazon appears to be taking the first steps in jumping on the Mobile Ad Network Band Wagon much like countless others out there. This however will be focused on and across its Kindle devices with a new advertising API which is in beta for developers. Needless to say, it is a tough and competitive business. But Amazon has something that most other competing networks don’t: droves of user data on the millions of consumers who buy goods off their site. This could certainly help Amazon understand what kinds of ads actually result in purchases better than Google AdMob, Facebook or any of the independent networks like InMobi or Jumptap....
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in Mobile |
According to Adobe’s latest Digital Index which has tracked 100 billion+ visits on over 1,000 websites worldwide, between June 2007 and now. It compares which device types are driving the most page views. The included markets were: the U.K, U.S., China, Canada, Australia, Japan, France and Germany. While the difference between tablet and smartphone traffic is not substantial, tablets accounted for 8% of the measured page views vs smartphones 7%. Considering the first iPad was launched in April of 2010, the growth in tablet page views is impressive. Naturally, both mobile device types only account for a fraction of the total share of page views when compared to desktops/laptops which accounts for 84%...
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in Android News, Mobile |
According to a report out today from security specialists F-Secure, Android accounted for 79% of all malware in 2012, up from 66.7% in 2011 and only 11.25% in 2010. When it comes to Apple’s iOS on the other hand, it remains one of the least compromised, with just 0.7%. Symbian, (whose market share is basically going off a cliff) is being left for dead by its former parent Nokia, down to 19% of all malware, compared to 62.5% two years ago (probably because hackers don’t think it’s worth their time anymore). Meanwhile, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and J2ME each accounted for less than 1% of threat families in circulation...
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in Android News, iOS Updates, Mobile |
2013 is said to be the year where Smartphone developers become ‘Android-First’, but that’s not to say that iOS won’t still dominate the tablet space. New research presented by ABI shows that smartphone app downloads will reach 56 billion this year, with Android set to account for a 58% share over iOS’s 33%. Windows Phone is expected to secure around 4%, and BlackBerry just 3%. When it comes to Tablets, app downloads are to hit 14 billion this year, Apple’s iPad(s) accounting for 75%. Android is looking at 21% share with 4% from Amazon’s Kindle Fire alone, and the others to accounting for the other 17%. Windows tablets will...
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in iOS Updates, Mobile |
Well, technically they launched V 1.2 of their iOS SDK last week, but – they’ve just now (30mins ago) officially unveiled it to their current subscribers. New updates and features of the SDK include: Support for native Twitter auth Additional features for native Facebook auth flow Improved error handling within your app Support for deleting an account at Singly (useful for testing) Notifications are now posted to NSNotificationCenter when the session is started and reset Getting Started Docs can be found here. Additionally, Singly’s Friend-Finding service is certainly worth checking out. Basically, instead of being shown an alphabetical list of all of your friends, or shown a random selection of 10 to...
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in Mobile |
Ouch. Just reading that over makes me cringe a little. Personally, I would have thought that after all the effort that went into design and development for the HTC One they would have had a real winner on their hands. Unfortunately, as the saying goes – numbers don’t lie. This will be the lowest year ever with low sales figures for the Taiwanese behemoth HTC. Year-over-year HTC is down 44% to $380.4 million in sales, this represents the lowest sales figures in 3 years. The company is hopeful that the new One flagship smartphone (set to hit shelves towards the end of March) will lift its dwindling sales....
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in Android News, iOS Updates, Mobile |
According to a new report by market analyst IDC, for the first time ever smartphones are expected to outship feature phones this year (2013). The firm predicts that vendors will ship an upwards of 918 million smartphones this year, which will equate to 50.1% of the total number of global mobile phone shipments. IDC also forecasts by the end of 2017 1.5 billion smartphones will be shipped worldwide, accounting just over two-thirds of the total mobile phone forecast for the year. When looking to the east, China is set to remain the world’s largest market for smartphones; specifically low-cost handsets based on the Android operating system. Melissa Chau...
Posted by ksteineman on Mar 7, 2013 in Marketing, Mobile |
A new infographic released by the folks at Intela looks at the growing uptake for m-commerece in the UK and US, and how we can understand these tech savvy shoppers. Part of the infographic reveals that 44% of US consumers are now thought to be more likely to make a purchase via their mobile device than they were just a year ago, while the same is true for 40% of UK consumers in those same 12 months. Earlier last month Intela also published a report that revealed 12% of consumers would be happy to make substantial purchases of over the $129 range in a single purchase over their...
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