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Check out this article on Mashable that discusses the role mobile smartphones (and apps) will play to help tackle major social issues like: disease response, education through games, government accountability, saving the rainforest and disaster response. The article also projects 9 billion global mobile subscriptions by 2017…. hmmm isn’t that just about EVERYONE?
Read moreA team of Engineers from UC Berkeley launched an app called Carat – the benefit of the app is to extend your battery life by indicating which apps are draining your battery (and how much time you will extend if you shut them down). While it may merely confirm what you should already know… it could […]
Read moreHere is a a great article on Techcruch about Camera + – which in my opinion is far and away the best camera app for iPhone. The article is interesting on several fronts: a). Implies the tremendous value and wealth that can be created through an app creation. b). Tells an interesting story about the post-instagram […]
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An interesting post by Ingrid Lunden on Techcrunch suggests that phones build on the Android platform continue to sell at a fierce pace in global markets, but have slowed in the US. Of the 7 markets (England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, US and Australia) surveyed by Kantar in the study, Spain had the greatest surge of […]
Read moreA new study published by Nielsen supports what we already know (with updated figures of course. Here are three key details: 1). 49.7% of all cell phone users in the US have smartphones (up from 36% this time last year). 2). Android now accounts for 48% of all smartphones in the US, up from 40% […]
Read moreCheck out this interesting post on Techcrunch… sounds like Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom’s is attempting to revolutionize web access for smartphone users by providing free web access through an iPhone case that will act like a hotspot. The project called freedomPop project will provide 1G of free access. It appears that they will make their […]
Read moreAccording to a study published by Chitika Mobile web traffic has spiked 35% since July of 2011 and now accounts for 10.55% of all web traffic in the US. While the remaining 89% (+ /-) can still be attributed to traditional PCs – this study is the first that we’ve seen, that provides clear evidence to back […]
Read moreIt was hard to miss this news, as it was front page on most major journals: just prior to the release of the “new iPad” Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed the numbers. In short, Apple has sold a total of 315 million iOS devises (iPhones, iPads, iPod touches) since inception. Most incredible about these numbers […]
Read moreOn December 6, Google announced a major milestone, one that might be making Apple a little nervous… and more importantly one that may give incentive to developers to start prioritizing Android While Apple is winning the platform war on the ‘total download’ front with 20 Billion estimated total downloads, Android is setting a blistering pace. […]
Read moreThis past week on Android Security Trevor Eckhart raised privacy concerns about CarrierIQ the diagnostic tool installed on an estimated 150 million Android phones on the Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Google indicated that the software was installed at the carrier level and was not build into Android. In short, CarrierIQ allows carriers to […]
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