The bathroom is not the sort of place you’d expect a study on phone use to be conducted, but marketing research firm 11Mark has taken on the challenge. Branded “IT in the Toilet”, the study found that 75% of Americans use their phones on the toilet. Some activities were more popular than others, with texting [...]
February 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
It’s amazing how generations can have shifts in their ways of going about life. 50 years ago, the bathroom was pretty much out of bounds for things like a phone, today a mobile phone is pretty much standard for any location in the house—even the loo. And helping to cement this in the annals (pardon [...]
February 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
Not too long ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find a mobile phone that did anything in color, but today, mobile phones are doing pretty much anything that computers do—heck, most smartphones these days are computers. Little wonder then, that most adults of are now using their mobile phones to shop online. A recent study by [...]
February 11th, 2012 by Anthony West
When Apple executives go to bed at nights, they must have awful nightmares of little green robots, you know, the kind that looks like Google’s Android. Those nightmares will probably now get worse with the release of the latest mobile statistics from ComScore. According to the popular market analysis and traffic curator, Google’s Android is [...]
February 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
When you are a telecoms carrier in a very competitive market, you need all the advantages you can get. And the partnership between Apple and AT&T has proven a winner—for both parties. According to the recent earnings figures released by AT&T, the company had a stellar year in 2011, and was only marred by the [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
The growing use of smartphones and the increase overall in terms of their capacity is fueling speculation and prediction on what the smartphone landscape will look like in the next year or so. According to Slots of Vegas, a whopping 113.9 million new mobile internet users will emerge in 2012; of that number, 106. Million [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
Remember when it seemed Motorola was the only mobile-phone manufacturer in town? Those were certainly the glory days—everyone wanted a ‘Razor’ and even the initial incarnation of Droid phones made the ubiquitous “hello Moto” chime a star. These days though, Motorola is a shadow of its former self and the company can’t seem for the [...]
February 5th, 2012 by Anthony West
The failed acquisition of T-Mobile might have cost AT&T a tidy sum but that hasn’t stopped the company from posting stellar numbers for the 2011. The company released its data and Wi-Fi connection rates for 2011 and managed to score big in almost every department. Wi-Fi Network traffic was up tripled against figures for 2010, [...]
February 5th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple is planning a summer launch of its much anticipated iPhone 5, but for now fanatical iPhone lovers are buying the iPhone 4S in droves. According to recent sales data released by Apple, more than 90% of iPhone sales in the US are for the 4S model. The news will be welcomed I am sure [...]
February 5th, 2012 by Anthony West
Today’s consumer is more connected than they’ve ever been, but the way in which they prefer to access the web doesn’t seem to be changing—much. According to a recent look into how various groups are connected, the vast majority of people still prefer to access their favorite websites through their PC or Laptop. The actual [...]
February 1st, 2012 by Anthony West
In a recent study it has been shown that the top 10% of mobile users generates 90% of all mobile traffic and that this gap is growing larger even with all the mobile internet usage. Here is some more information about this issue: “Apparently there’s more than one “One Percent,” even when it comes to [...]
January 31st, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
Few people who use Android powered devices know about the raging battles that are taking place behind the scenes over the platform. Google of course is the owner of Android, but this wasn’t always the case, and when the mobile platform was acquired several tech companies made cries of “foul”. One such company was Oracle [...]
January 30th, 2012 by Anthony West
Facebook is the most popular social network of our time. It has a wide range of various types of users appealing to the young adolescent generation to adults, parents, and even grandparents. It is used to social interaction and connects friends, family members, coworkers, etc in a unique and fun way. Facebook is even beneficial [...]
January 14th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
Twitter had perhaps its best year since launch this past year (2011) and the prospects for growth in the coming years seem rosy indeed. But out of the records and stats, a picture of how the user base on the platform is constituted is emerging. This picture helps to justify one of the age-old puzzles [...]
January 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple will be happy with the latest data coming out of ComScore, because for the first time in a long while, the company has upped its share of the mobile market—even though not by much. According to ComScore recent take on the state of the mobile OEM marketplace, Samsung still continues to dominate with a [...]
January 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
Did the Apple iOS die this past Christmas? That is the question being asked in light of the revelation that Google activated over 3.7 million Android devices over the course of this past Christmas weekend. The figure was revealed by Google SVP Andy Rubin, who tweeted the achievement amidst much glee. This is clearly good [...]
January 5th, 2012 by Anthony West
Google Android is gaining momentum so fast that it is hard to expect it not to demolish Apple’s market share before the end of 2012. The latest set of data reveals that a staggering 700,000 devices are activated daily—up from the 500,000 or so daily activities recorded in June. The figure was sent out via [...]
December 30th, 2011 by Anthony West
The mobile phone is now the de facto communication tool for people across the globe, and while cultures differ on how the device is actually used, there’s one element that is universal and that is text messaging. Texting is has evolved as big part of worldwide culture that is now officially a part of our [...]
December 30th, 2011 by Anthony West
