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 Developers, if you gather information about your install base for your apps you've likely run across Metrix, a project between Syntactix, one of our favorite developers, and webOSroundup. Following the announcement by webOSroundup earlier this month that they were going to be signing off for the last time , the decision to send Metrix offline was announced on Wednesday. . . . → Read More: PSA: Metrix analytics suite going dark on April 25th, to be open source  Not like we haven’t seen this dog-and-pony show before , but Flurry’s latest round of analytics — which measured revenue of 11 million daily active users from mid-January through the end of February 2012 — shows Amazon’s Appstore pulling in a shocking amount of revenue given the short life that it has lived. Apple’s strength in sales has been well documented , but the latest report shows that for every $1 generated in the iTunes App Store, $0.89 is being spent in the Amazon Appstore. . . . → Read More: Flurry’s analytics: Apple’s App Store revenue still leading, but Amazon Appstore close behind  Apsalar , a San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup, is giving developers more precision in how they target their users. The company is launching something called “Advanced User Segments” today . . . → Read More: Apsalar Lets You Customize Your Mobile App For Users Based On Their Behavior  There has been some anecodotal evidence about how WiFi is by far the most popular way to connect on a tablet, but some numbers out from Localytics spell out just how little traffic is coming from 3G (and now 4G) networks on the most popular tablet of all, the iPad from Apple. Using data from apps that run on its mobile analytics platform, Localytics says that in the last week, since the introduction of the new iPad, only six percent of all sessions on iPads were coming from cellular networks, with the rest coming from WiFi. . . . → Read More: WiFi Rules, OK? Only 6% Of iPad Sessions Come From Cellular Networks  Sprint today told Android Central that it is no longer using Carrier IQ to collect diagnostic data from its devices. The statement comes in response to our asking Sprint about an anonymously sourced report on Geek.com under the headline “Sprint orders all OEM’s to strip Carrier IQ from their hardware.” Said Sprint spokeswoman Stephanie Vinge-Walsh: “That report does not appear to be accurate.” Vinge-Walsh did go on to tell us that Sprint has “weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected. . . . → Read More: Sprint says it’s no longer collecting analytics via Carrier IQ  U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., didn't like what he'd heard about the whole Carrier IQ saga . . . → Read More: Sen. Al Franken gets answers from Carrier IQ, carriers — ‘still very troubled by what’s going on’  Update: Sprint says it's no longer using Carrier IQ Sprint, in its reponse to U.S. . . . → Read More: Sprint: 26 million devices with Carrier IQ, but we only ping a fraction at one time Carrier IQ , the company that everyone — for right or wrong — has come to hate of late has released a document explaining in plain English how it does what it does . . . . → Read More: Carrier IQ gives a lengthy look into how it works  After having already tried to explain itself with metaphor , Carrier IQ is now taking its floundering PR campaign back to basics, with an ostensibly thorough primer on its practices and a slightly less convoluted defense of its privacy standards . This morning, the controversial analytics firm released a lengthy, 19-page document that attempts to explain “what Carrier IQ does and does not do.” In the report, titled “Understanding Carrier IQ Technology,” the company explains the benefit it offers to its clientele of network operators, many of whom rely upon Carrier IQ’s diagnostic data to make sure their infrastructure is up to snuff. It also provides a breakdown of how it collects data, as well as a defense against Trevor Eckhart’s findings, though, as you’ll see, these arguments likely won’t put this saga to bed anytime soon . . . → Read More: Carrier IQ issues lengthy report on data collection practices, sticks to its guns . . . → Read More: Required reading: Carrier IQ around the web |
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