mobile Internet

Use of mobile phones depends on color of the skin? Survey results

July 12, 2010 - 5:01am | Figures | News
Use of mobile phones depends on color of the skin? Survey results

According to the recent survey published by eMarketer, black and Hispanic adults are more active in using mobile internet compared to white adults. As per result of the study conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Foundation in May 2010 only 80% of non-Hispanic white adults own a mobile phone, compared to 87% of black and Hispanic adults. However even having sophisticated smartphones the adults cannot use all their features, including mobile Internet. Though not all of them.


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Google Android phones threaten to wreck wireless networks

December 9, 2010 - 1:59am | Analytics | News
Google Android phones threaten to wreck wireless networks

Wireless networks are under the risk of overloading because of increasing use of Google Android smartphones such as Samsung's Galaxy S which use more data services than other smartphones. The popularity of Android running devices comes as handsets increasingly overtake computers as the most used devices for surfing the Internet and knowing this wireless operators strive to please their consumers while not hasting to inform that their networks are not capable to support such workloads.


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Baidu will focus its mobile Internet investments on search business

September 2, 2010 - 8:42am | News | Other themes
Baidu will focus its mobile Internet investments on search business

As Baidu announced Thursday, it intends to focus its future mobile Internet investments on its core search business, targeting to dominate the next big Internet space.

According to Baidu representative, China’s leading search engine sees its broader future investment priorities to include mobile Internet and ecommerce initiatives in the B2C space.


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First mobile phone on 100Mbps LTE data transmission comes in February

February 1, 2010 - 7:11am | News | Other themes
First mobile phone on 100Mbps LTE data transmission comes in February

At the Mobile World Congress scheduled to take place from Feb. 15 to 18 in Barcelona, Spain, a Japanese company NTT DoCoMo plans to show a prototype cellular handset running next-generation LTE technology. It is the first time the technology appears in a handset.


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Mobile use of Facebook goes up 600% while Twitter’s climbs 2,800%

January 26, 2010 - 10:07am | Figures | News
Mobile use of Facebook goes up 600% while Twitter’s climbs 2,800%

According to the report released by Opera which covers the trends of the mobile usage of the social networking websites Facebook was found as the most visited social network on the mobile Web, but Twitter’s growth has surged even faster in 2009.

The report reveals that unique users at Facebook jumped up over 600% during 2009. The site thus surpassed VKontakte, the Russian social network that was formerly the most popular among Opera Mini users (the browser is quite popular in Russia and Eastern Europe).


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Mobile Internet will leave behind the desktop one with 131% increase by 2013

December 18, 2009 - 9:35am | Analytics | News
Mobile Internet will leave behind the desktop one with 131% increase by 2013

Mobile Internet is forecast to outstrip desktop Internet in a short term according to the reports issued by Morgan Stanley. "Regarding pace of change, we believe more users will likely connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years."


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GetJar’s new research shows high popularity of mobile apps

September 21, 2009 - 4:24am | Figures | News
GetJar’s new research shows high popularity of mobile apps

GetJar, the world’s largest independent app store, today reveals that 65 percent of consumers downloading applications from its site belong to the prized 18-34 year old male demographic and that one-in-three GetJar users are downloading mobile apps every day. While brands are already creating campaigns for mobile as a channel, the findings indicate that users are not only receptive to promotions via mobile apps, but also actively embrace them.


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What’s new with Gmail for iPhones and Android?

April 8, 2009 - 8:10am | News | Other themes
What’s new with Gmail for iPhones and Android?

Vic Gundotra, Google vice president of engineering, had presented a "technical preview" of the new HTML 5 Gmail during Tim 2.0'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo last week. 

Gundotra highlighted that with the new Gmail the internet for mobiles would emerge a real platform for apps, as it runs on both the iPhone and Android.

It is also expected that the new email service will enable users to access recently received messages even when they are offline.


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MySpace is 46% more popular with mobile users than Facebook

April 2, 2009 - 5:01am | Figures | News
MySpace is 46% more popular with mobile users than Facebook

Openwave Systems presented the results of its study that show social networking is still most popular online activity for North American mobile web users. Thus Facebook and MySpace present the top two search queries on Google and Yahoo!'s respective mobile search services. 


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Yahoo! introduces a new version of its mobile page

April 2, 2009 - 3:23am | News | Other themes
Yahoo! introduces a new version of its mobile page

On Wednesday Yahoo! unveiled a new version of its mobile page. The new Yahoo! Mobile has also been rolled into a new application for the iPhone, it is quite similar to the website but the difference is in the action division into the separate screens, thanks to the V-scroll.

The new version combines search, news, email, social networking, calendar, messenger, address book, weather, and RSS feeds.


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T-Mobile launches new email notification service

March 18, 2009 - 4:55am | News | Other themes
T-Mobile launches new email notification service

As the Register says, T-Mobile is offering the UK customers genuinely-pushed email to a custom client, for a small consideration of £3.50 a month. This service connects to up to five existing email accounts and alerts the client to connect and download new messages using a silent SMS notification, that works like the BlackBerry service does. Clients are to download the application, though they have a chance to get a free month's usage, before the monthly fee kicks in, signing up.


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iPhone users express their opinion on eBay Mobile

March 16, 2009 - 9:22am | News | Other themes
iPhone users express their opinion on eBay Mobile

eBay Mobile introduced by eBay, the largest online auction site in the world, in order to provide additional comfort for its users found relatively good response with the Internet subscribers, who expressed their wishes over how they want eBay Mobile to be improved.

Once the user logs on to the web site they are able to view auction listings, read descriptions, and place bids, as if they were at the computer.


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57% of mobile payments worldwide fall upon the U.S.

March 13, 2009 - 8:09am | Figures | News
57% of mobile payments worldwide fall upon the U.S.

According to Bango, the analytics vendor, in February the mobile users from the US have accounted for 29% of Web traffic and 57% of payments worldwide. As a result the US became the country with the highest rate of Web browsing and payments conducted from mobile phones leaving behind the UK, the number-one at the end of 2008. 


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Yahoo! launches mobile NCAA tournament site

March 11, 2009 - 7:44am | News | Other themes
Yahoo! launches mobile NCAA tournament site

Yahoo! announced the launch of a new mobile sports website designed specially for the men's NCAA basketball tournament. Jimmy Pitaro from Yahoo! Sports told eMarketer that the company is targeting younger consumers and females as part of its online strategy.
The website includes special tools that enable users to follow the games of their favourite teams directly from mobile devices. Moreover, the fans can track their brackets and the progress of others in their group.


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BOLT surpasses the mark of 150,000 active users in only two weeks

March 3, 2009 - 10:00am | News | Other themes
BOLT surpasses the mark of 150,000 active users in only two weeks

Regardless the short time period after its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 16th, only two weeks, Bitstream Inc. announced that BOLT, the company’s web browser for mobile phones, has already gained 150,000 users. 

So far many users have been stating positive comments regarding the speed, which is 25 to 50 percent faster than many other browsers.


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