Yesterday at the urging of a friend, I ordered “Your Brain at Work” by David Rock on my iPod touch via the Amazon Kindle app. In doing so, I became one of many people who are helping the iPhone become more than just a phone. It’s… Read More »
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Looks like the number of folks who are addicted to iPhone apps is on an upswing. Check out this graph and you’ll see the increase in the number of iPhone app addicts. Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company, says that in September, about half a million… Read More »
Now that the iPhone is officially on sale in China — a huge market that few once thought it would be allowed to enter — the focus has turned to its high price, and whether that will hinder its prospects in the region. China Unicom began selling… Read More »
Our friends at BillShrink, who developed an interactive tool that lets you compare handsets and pick the best phone-plan combination, crunched the data on some of the newer smartphones and compared them with the current champion, the iPhone 3Gs. “While sticker prices are roughly comparable between… Read More »
Web browsing and Internet usage on mobile devices is booming, reports AdMob, a San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile advertising startup that tracks data across various mobile devices, applications and browsers. In its September 2009 Mobile Metrics report, the company found that of the top 10 devices in… Read More »
The new Motorola Droid is pretty hot today. It’s a phone! It’s a brand! It’s an iPhone killer! But here at GigaOM we decided to ask a far more important question, “Is it a RAZR killer?” Can today’s Droid phone top the world’s most ubiquitous mobile… Read More »
iTunes’ app store has more than 101,000 approved apps and over 93,000 are available now, according to AppShopper, an app-related web site. Our friends at Mobclix suggest that there are 103,000 apps for the iTunes store. In September, Apple reported that nearly 2 billion apps had… Read More »
