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Articles tagged with: App Store and Nokia
Nokia Orders 300 Apps from Canadian Developer
Nokia has entered into an agreement with Canadian mobile apps developer, Polar Mobile to launch over 300 mobile apps for Nokia smartphones over the next 12 months. Polar Mobile will be launching apps on Nokia smartphones for over 300 top tier media brands globally, including the likes of Wired UK, Kompas, Advertising Age, Globe and Mail, Shanghai Daily and 7DAYS. more
Related Tags: polar-mobile, mobile-apps, nokia-n9, nokia-n9, windows-phone, windows-phone, globe
Revenue for Major Mobile App Stores to Rise 77.7 Percent in 2011
Combined revenues from the four major mobile application stores run by Apple, Google, Nokia and Research In Motion will leap 77.7 percent in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with the Apple App Store projected to eat up a gargantuan three-quarters share of the total market, according to new IHS Screen Digest research. more
Related Tags: apple, google, research-in-motion, android-market, nokia-ovi, apple-app-store, ihs
Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Opinion by Ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party
applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and
OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus
on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications
and services to mobile phones.
more
Related Tags: ovum, smartphone, symbian, google, microsoft, sony, windows, google-android, nokia,, os, cagr, 2g
EU-Funded Study Warns of GPS Phone Privacy Concerns
At a time when privacy issues are higher on the news agenda than ever, the EU-funded Network of Excellence FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) is urging users to safeguard their digital identity and privacy, especially when using mobile technologies. The team is particularly concerned that, in the wake of Apple's ‘Thanks a Billion' campaign to celebrate the billionth download from the App Store, consumers are still not aware of the potential privacy issues involved with these technologies. more
Related Tags: privacy, gps, a-gps, apple, location-based-services, security, life, health, insurance, era, apps
Mobile E-Mail Tops British iPhone Usage
According to a report from mobile usage analysts, comScore, three-quarters of British iPhone owners use mobile e-mail, making it the most popular type of mobile content consumed on the device. more
Related Tags: iphone, social-networking, smartphone, tim, ovi, comscore, mobile-games, mobile-content, music, qwerty, touch-screen, UK
Smartphones to Account for 23% of All New Mobile Phones by 2013
Rising demand for complex multimedia-centric applications is forcing handset manufacturers to design increasingly ‘smart' and highly personalised mobile devices. A new smartphones report from Juniper Research forecasts that these so-called ‘smartphones' will account for 23% of all new handsets sold per annum by 2013. more
Related Tags: google, iphone, juniper-research, smartphone, apple, smartphones, driving, compete, operating-system, andrew, nokia,, rooted
Survey Finds: 17% of Shoppers Spent Over $100 on Mobile Apps in 2008
A survey of 235 US smartphone users who installed applications on their devices in 2008, conducted by ABI Research in November, reveals that a surprising 16.5% spent between $100 and $499. That level of spending is especially significant given the low cost of most mobile applications, ranging from as little as a dollar or two at Apple's iPhone App Store, to at most about $25. more
Related Tags: sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, itunes, apple, itu, abi-research, rim, mobile-content, nokia,, music,
Apple Poised to Take 40% of the Smartphone Market
Analysis carried out by Generator Research claims that Apple's embryonic mobile business could knock Nokia from the top spot in the smartphone market, and transform the mobile services market. more
Related Tags: iphone, smartphone, itunes, apple, apple, ipod, itu, andrew, music
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