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 Mobile applications keep growing like crazy. According to the latest research from In-Stat, this market is expected to reach nearly 48 billion downloads in 2015, driven by the increased smartphone penetration. Touchscreen devices will continue to dominate the landscape with nearly 90% of smartphones shipped in 2011, and will increase to nearly 100% in the next several years . . . → Read More: In-Stat: Mobile app downloads to approach 48 billion in 2015  The Verizon 4G LTE network is pretty darn good but a new report from Root Metrics shows that not all devices are created equally. The company compared the HTC Thunderbolt and Samsung Droid Charge and found that one consistently got faster download speeds, even though both were using the same 4G LTE network. . . . → Read More: HTC Thunderbolt vs. Droid Charge – Which has faster 4G LTE?  Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha laid some hate on the Android Market in a conference webcast yesterday , claiming 70% of their smartphone returns are due to third-party apps negatively affecting performance. Apparently Motorola’s custom Android app suite, Motoblur, has been collecting data about app usage, which has brought them to this conclusion. By the same token, they’re hoping to eventually be able to issue warnings through Motorblur when a user is about to download an app that is particularly rough on battery life. . . . → Read More: Motorola says Android apps negatively affecting device performance  Distimo is out with its new report , covering all of the major app stores. Most notably this release compares the app prospects in two leading services, Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market. . . . → Read More: Distimo May 2011 report: Android still has a lot of catching up to do  Although the tablet application market is pretty similar to the smartphone app market, it will develop its own identity in the coming years. Already we have a rising number of smartphone apps specially optimized for the large screens modern tablets offer as well as tablet-only titles . . . → Read More: In-Stat: Tablet app revenues to top $15 billion in 2015  RIM’s first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, has reportedly sold 250,000 units after the first month in stores , and Wedbush Securities analyst Scott Sutherland estimates sales by the end of the quarter (i.e. this month) to be in the 450,000 range. While that sounds decent, Sutherland soured his outlook on RIM . . . → Read More: RIM estimated to sell 450,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks in Q1  In its latest study, In-Stat is focused on (non mobile phone) connected devices. According to the research company, mobile operators should benefit from the user interest in devices such as tablets and e-readers. In that sense, In-Stat has found that by 2015, tablets will have the highest 3G/4G attach rate among all cellular-enabled portable and computing devices with 78% of them [tablets] shipping with a 3G/4G modem. . . . → Read More: In-Stat: 78% of tablets shipped to rock a 3G/4G modem in 2015  The BlackBerry PlayBook is off to a solid start, as analysts are estimating that Research In Motion’s first tablet sold about 250,000 units in the first month. While that’s nothing compared to the Apple iPad 2, it’s a more-than-respectable figure for the company first foray into the tablet space . . . → Read More: RIM PlayBook sold 250,000 units in first month, analysts say  We’ve already told you about Juniper Research’s bullish forecasts of the augmented reality services . According to latest figures we have from the research company, the market for mobile enterprise applications featuring augmented reality elements is expected to exceed $300 million by 2015. Among the deployments that will help this grow, Juniper points to areas as diverse as corporate utility, surgery and counter-terrorism . . . → Read More: Juniper Research: Counter terrorism could help augmented reality grow  A fresh study from the Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology is suggesting that the dramatic decline in the world’s honey bee population may be related to cell phone signals. This study observed the reactions of a hive of Carniolan honey bees when cell phones were off, on standby, or in an active call. During a call, the bees would emit a noise ten times louder than normal to signal hive disturbance (called “piping”). We’ve seen a similar study from a couple of years ago corroborating this reaction, though it’s still unclear what specifically is happening to the bees when subjected to strong magnetic fields . . . → Read More: Bees Being Killed by Cell Phone Signals? |
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