China and India are the new battlegrounds for mobile phone manufacturers looking to increase sales. Research firm Gartner reports mobile phone sales grew by 16% from 990.9 million in 2006 to 1.15...
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Rico Mossesgeld over at The Smart PDA (one of Creative Weblogging's blogs) finds a report that suggest Apple's iPhone beats the competition in the SmartPhone market in North America....
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Just days after the first commercial testing of JetBlue's in-flight Wi-Fi service, the soon-to-be released study of Freesky Research projects that airline passengers will send more than 60 million...
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As what may be a preview of the bright future of mobile commerce in general, the latest study of Juniper Research shows that about 52 million people will adopt mobile payment methods like NFC (Near...
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Driven by consumer demand for low cost handsets and the need for some degree of customization, a new ABI study projects the global sales of private branded handsets to grow by 23% this year and reach...
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A new study from eMarketer titled "Mobile TV and Video: Big Dreams for the Smallest Screen" projects the global market of mobile TV and Video to reach $12.7 B in 2011. However, several...
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mocoNews has posted a recently released study by ABI Research that digs deeper on the emerging trends in mobile advertising and marketing. ABI projects the market to reach $3 billion by end 2007 and...
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by tom on January 03, 2007
PocketGamer (via Moconews) have compiled a list of the top 10 reasons why 2007 will be the year for mobile games. Reading through the list throws up some interesting points: 1: Advertising Supported...
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by Scott on January 02, 2007
I have trawled a lot of forecasts in the past week or two and have seen a lot of similar predictions for mobile markets in the new year, but one that struck me as interesting was this one about how......
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by Scott on October 23, 2006
A billion of anything is a lot, but IDC thinks we need to make room for a billion additional mobiles in the near future. It predicts that the billion in question is the number of new handsets that...
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by Scott on September 15, 2006
According to CTIA, US mobile data revenues are starting to look rosy. US operators scored a cool $6.5 billion in mobile data revenues for the first half of 2006, with over 12 billion SMS sent in June...
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by Scott on August 28, 2006
According to Research and Markets, which has just issued its next generation study on ringtones, full song downloads for ringtones, as found in KDDI's enorously popular Chaka-Uta Full download...
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by Scott on August 24, 2006
Wireless World Forum in London has released a forecast regarding the importance of young cutsomers to mobile markets today and tomorrow. According to the report released last month, the average...
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by tom on August 15, 2006
The Carnival of the Mobilists is entering middle age, with number 40 being hosted by Anders Borg of Abiro. This week sees more than 15 entries, with two new contributors, covering UI design,...
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by Scott on August 08, 2006
IMS Research has put out a forecast in its latest report on mobile TV predicting 500 million users of mobile TV by 2011 worldwide. This will be mostly mobile network-based TV until the later stages,...
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by tom on August 08, 2006
Carnival of the Mobilists 39 is here, hosted by Daniel Taylor over on the Mobile Enterprise Weblog. Daniel has thoughtfully categorised this week's postings, with articles covering mobile devices,...
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by tom on July 31, 2006
Carnival of the Mobilists 38 has been posted, and this week it's being hosted by the good folks over at SmartMobs. The Carnival is getting bigger every week, and this week topics include Posts By...
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by Scott on May 26, 2006
ZDNet Asia, via textually.org, brings news that some analysts believe instant messaging will overtake SMS in a few years' time to be the main non-voice messaging application for mobile devices....
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by tom on May 08, 2006
(via Smartmobs A couple of reports release late last week point to the importance of the mobile phone in global communication, with DM Europe reporting an estimated 3.3 billion mobile subscribers...
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by Scott on April 17, 2006
As I posted over on Smartspace this afternoon, In-Stat has forecast US mobile location-based services to rise to 1.1 million subscribers by 2010, up from over 580,000 at present. Factors setting...
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by Scott on April 13, 2006
Both Nokia and SonyEricsson have raised forecasts for mobile phone markets in the past two days, both seeing good response by consumers to the shift to more media-based handsets, like the Walkman...
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by Scott on March 05, 2006
ABI Research forecasts 2006 will be a bumper year for smartphones, with worldwide shipments growing by 100% and total share of the mobile handset market made up by smartphones to rise to 15%. ABI...
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by Scott on February 08, 2006
In-Stat have released a new forecast theorizing that cameraphone demand may be peaking in the US. According to the research firm, cameraphones have reached about 40% penetration in the US market thus...
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