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Articles tagged with: Google and Social Networking
Social Networking Usurping Mobile Messaging as Communications Tool
Openwave Systems has published a report highlighting key mobile internet usage trends in North America, based on findings derived from its Mobile Analytics product. Strong themes that Mobile Analytics uncovered included upticks in social networking site usage suggestive of a new preferred method of communication with the potential to unseat traditional forms of messaging such as email for a particular segment of subscribers; an analysis of mobile advertising click-through rates (CTR) that showed clear advantages of targeted promotions; and the growing trend in accessing mobile classifieds via the mobile device. more
Related Tags: microsoft, sim, analytics, ict, tim, ovi, iden, mobile-advertising, admob, mobile-internet, facebook, play, email, mobile-analytics,
Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
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Mobile Imaging Application Market to Exceed $500 Million by 2013
U.S. consumers will spend more than $500 million in 2013 for imaging applications on their mobile phones, according to international research firm Parks Associates, which sees this market expanding beyond photo-sharing services to personalized content management and social networking applications. more
Related Tags: android, apple, apple, camera-phone, health, printing,
Despite Being Over-Hyped, Location-Based Advertising Offers Opportunities
Location-based advertising is gaining momentum as a new advertising medium. It provides more targeted and efficient marketing tools for advertisers and represents an additional revenue source for LBS (location based services) vendors, allowing them to offer free ad-funded navigation and LBS services that stimulate uptake and/or increase their profitability. more
Related Tags: nokia, privacy, abi-research, lbs, location-based-services, indoor, navigation, seamless
Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as Facebook's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. Facebook's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
more
Related Tags: microsoft, sms, twitter, ovum, ofta, yahoo, compete, text-messages, facebook, target
As Mobile Web Usage Explodes, Full-Featured Browsers on Smartphones See Strongest Growth
One of the undisputed bright spots in 2008 has been the continued rapid growth of web usage on mobile devices. While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been smartphones. ABI Research sees this growth continuing over the next five years, with highly capable Internet browsers on smartphones expanding from 130 million in 2008 to 530 million by 2013. more
Related Tags: microsoft, iphone, smartphone, rsa, smartphones, abi-research, rim, admob, opera
LG to Embed Social Networking Application into Indian Handsets
RockeTalk, a provider of mobile social applications, has announced a partnership with LG Electronics India in which the RockeTalk mobile social networking application will be pre-loaded on all new LG KT610 and KF750 (Secret) mobile phone models. These LG phones, pre-loaded with RockeTalk, are already available to consumers through LG retailers in India. more
Related Tags: rsa, lg, lg-electronics, mobile-im, lg-mobile, India
Hutchison Whampoa Launches Handset Subsidiary
Hutchison Whampoa has launched its own mobile phone subsidiary, INQ Mobile to develop phones for its 3G networks worldwide. The company aims to launch a range of low to mid-priced handsets based largely on free operating systems, likely to be either Linux or the google backed Android OS - and will be based on Qualcomm chips. more
Related Tags: android, skype, qualcomm, voip, seven, facebook, hutchison, inq-mobile, linux, os, 3g-network
T-Mobile Shows off its "Google Phone"
T-Mobile today announced the international launch of the world's first Android-powered mobile phone in partnership with google. The handset will be available from next month not just in the USA, but also in Europe. more
Related Tags: android, wi-fi, deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, wind, edge, palm, mobile-internet, instant-messaging, 3, retail-stores, navigation, email, option, mobile-web, qwerty, gmail,
Maturing Palm Centro Again Signals Need for Innovation
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- As Palm is learning, consumers are a fickle bunch. more
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