The only constant in the hot tablet and smartphone market remains change. The top 50 Android apps take up to 65 percent of users’ time but eleven of the top 50 swapped out in the past three months, Neilsen’s Jonathan Carson told Mobilize 2011 attendees. Read More »
Archive for September 2011
The success of Tumblr — which has raised $85 million in funding and sees 13 billion pageviews a month — contains lessons for media companies, and the main one is that social sharing can be an incredibly powerful force if you make it as easy as… Read More »
Put one on the board for the cellular smart grid. Utility Consumers Energy announced that it will work with SmartSynch to roll out cellular-based smart meters for 1.8 million customers. Read More »
The demand for superfast broadband won’t really take off unless carriers lower prices on higher speed tiers, argues Williams Yeung, CEO of Hong Kong-based City Telecom. I think the biggest mistake we’re making is waiting for some red-hot, bandwidth-hungry application to come along. Read More »
Pandora jailbroke an iPhone to get an early start on development for Apple’s iOS platform, the company’s CTO Tom Conrad revealed at Mobilize 2011 on Monday. These days, Conrad is equally excited about HTML5 and the impact it will have on connected devices. Read More »
On Monday at GigaOM’s Mobilize 2011 event, Fjord CEO Olof Schybergson discussed the thin line between love and hate that smart services tread when dealing with a customer’s personal data. How much shared info is too much, and how can we change where that line lies? Read More »
PayPal said consumers aren’t going to wait until Black Friday to get their shopping started. They’ll begin their gift hunting the day before on Thanksgiving using a mobile device. PayPal said this couch commerce will be the first holiday shopping spike this year. Read More »
A hearing Monday saw Samsung argue that it has the right to pursue an injunction of Apple products in the Netherlands, while Apple claims that Samsung is overstepping its boundaries regarding its mobile wireless patents in an attempt to derail the launch of upcoming products. Read More »
The Android smartphone juggernaut continues to gain momentum, according to Nielsen. Android smartphones account for 43 percent of all smartphones in the U.S. as of August, up from 40 percent in July. And among recent purchases, 56 percent of them have been Android devices. Read More »
Amazon is ramping up its Prime Instant Videos streaming service, adding 2,000 more titles through a deal with Fox. That brings the total number of streaming titles in its Prime library to 11,000, more than double the amount that it launched with in February. Read More »
Our annual mobile internet event, Mobilize, is happening Monday, September 26, and Tuesday, September 27. Watch the livestream here to find out what industry leaders think about the state of the app economy, HTML5, mobile payments, networks and more. The livestream starts at 8:25 Monday. Read More »
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