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Articles tagged with: Social Networking and Samsung
Financial Sites Popular Among Older European Mobile Web Users
comScore has reported that financial services sites, such as those offering banking and stock trading services, are the most popular among European mobile subscribers older than 55, while teenagers are more likely to visit social networking, entertainment and even comic sites on their mobile devices. more
Related Tags: comscore, ericsson, ovi, apple, rsa, motorola, eu, lg, blackberry, mobile-internet, teenagers, oem, weather, target
2009 Will Be Year of the Mini-Notebook in Asia Pacific
Shipments of mini-notebooks in Asia Pacific will reach four million units in 2009, growing by a robust 82 per cent over 2008, according to Gartner. Growth will stabilise at 20 per cent or more in 2010 and 2011, when mini-notebooks will account for more than 14 per cent of all mobile PCs shipped. more
Related Tags: gartner, netbooks, toshiba, lenovo, dell, fujitsu-siemens, mobile-broadband, ovi, tim, ict, asus, siemens
Mobile Applications Stores: A Virtual 'Farmer's Market'
The mobile content market with the advent of the applications store has brought a new model of mobile content distribution. The applications store gives an opportunity to capitalize on direct relationships with consumers, linking them to the brand and offering an easy-to-use way of purchasing a variety of applications. It is like on a farmer's market, where people can purchase fresh products and homemade food eliminating the middleman and the additional costs associated with buying through an intermediary. more
Related Tags: android, nokia, iphone, qualcomm, o2, ovi, blackberry, mobile-content, play, brew, android-market, samsung-mobile, nokia-ovi
Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many
Analytics firm, comScore has reported that the number of people in the USA using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. more
Related Tags: iphone, sms, analytics, smartphone, smartphones, comscore, lg, mobile-internet, maps, mobile-web
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
Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, personal, symbian, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android, churn, os
Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
Related Tags: android, sony-ericsson, t-mobile, 3g, windows-mobile, nokia, sim, iphone, smartphone, motorola, eu, skype, 3-uk, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, smartphones, wind, open-handset-alliance, ericsson, idc, lg, blackberry, compete, personal, touchscreen, sony, 3, oem, inq1, windows, sanjay-jha, chipset, windows-live, storm, music, global-mobile, barcelona, mobile-world-congress
Economic Downturn Leads Carriers to Reduce Capex Spending
In financially challenging times, when service revenues dip due to reduced end-user confidence, a standard tactic is to cut back on capital expenditure, which boosts operating margins and thereby profits. This tactic was used in the dot.com/3G economic downturn earlier this decade. more
Related Tags: base-station, iphone, mobile-tv, apple, apple, abi-research, capex, core-network, mobile-internet, backhaul, omnia, apple-iphone, music
Location-based Mobile Social Networking Will Generate Revenues of $3.3 Billion by 2013
The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify nearby friends and set up ad hoc face to face meetings. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, privacy, gps, abi-research, skyhook, garmin, us-cellular, instant-messaging, indoor-coverage, indoor, loopt, wi-fi-
Femtocell access point market: great potential, tough hurdles
Many factors are converging to create a market ripe for femtocell technology, says a new report from analyst firm Infonetics Research. Chief among these factors:
- Mounting numbers of mobile subscribers, forecast by Infonetics to hit 4.4 billion worldwide in 2011
- A booming broadband market, driven by demand for faster Internet connection speeds and applications like social networking, online gaming, and multimedia
- Mobile operators seeking to boost revenue by enticing customers to pay for new data services to offset escalating mobile backhaul costs and voice revenue losses
Related Tags: rcom, hsupa, driving, femtocell, backhaul, sprint, wimax,, femtocells, hsdpa, wifi
Teenagers Turning their Back on Nokia - Prefer Sony Ericsson and Samsung
The importance of mobile phones in teenagers' lives is increasing rapidly according to the latest survey carried out by social networking website, Habbo. 58,480 teens that took part in the survey say also that Nokia is the number one mobile brand globally. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, sony, text-messages, teenagers, habbo, mp3, email, nokia,
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