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As Android crowds the iPhoneThe market for mobile apps – be they for smartphones, less-capable “feature phones,” or carry-alongs such as Apple’s iPad – will swell to $17.5bn by 2012.…
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Mar
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2010
 
Cisco launches new Borderless Access productsPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
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Or maybe just kill televisionThe FCC’s National Broadband Plan will be largely funded through the sale of radio spectrum the FCC doesn’t own: a good trick if one can pull it off.…
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Report for app store GetJar forecasts number of downloads will rise from 7bn in 2009 to almost 50bn in 2012 Mobile app downloads are expected to increase from more than 7bn downloads in 2009 to almost 50bn in 2012, according to a report. The independent study, carried out by Chetan Sharma Consulting for Getjar, the world’s second biggest app store, forecasts that the global mobile application economy will be worth $17.5bn in 2012, more than CD sales, which it predicts will be $13.83bn. It says that market will continue to grow exponentially as mobile devices become as powerful as computers, and wireless networks deliver consistently higher bandwidths. “With the consumer appetite for mobile apps rocketing, the opportunities for developers are huge,” says the CEO and founder of GetJar, Ilja Laurs. The study says that initially the focus of making revenue from apps was based entirely on paid downloads or subscription-based models, but this is going to change. Today, advertising-based revenue accounts for about 12% of app revenue, but by 2012 this figure is expected to rise to 28%. For some platforms such as Google’s Android, advertising revenue is predicted to be even bigger than revenues from paid downloads. The price of mobile applications ranges from $0.99 to $999 but the average selling price in 2009 was about $1.90, the study says. Over the next three years this is predicted to decrease by 29% and apps will get cheaper; however, advertising revenue derived from apps is likely to stay relatively flat. By 2012, so-called “offdeck” apps that are offered independently from a carrier will be the biggest revenue generator, accounting for almost 50% of all app revenue. By comparison, in 2009, apps available from mobile operators still accounted for more than 60% of all app revenue, but this will fall to just under 23% by 2012. As the WSJ Digits blogger Jennifer Valentino-DeVries points out, the study will by no means be the last word on the subject, but it provides at least a look at why so many companies are excited about mobile.
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Mar
17
2010
Nokia puts hive mind to work on Best Phone EverPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
And it should have wheels and, and a knife with fire coming outNokia’s “Designed by Community” project is intended to find out what a mobile phone feature set should be, but even the Finns aren’t promising to build it.…
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HTC Desire and Sony Xperia X10 launches lined upVirgin has become the latest mobile phone network to catch the Android bug – it has launched two smartphones based on the Google OS and will release two more next month.…
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Mar
17
2010
CVDT subsidiary signs two system integratorsPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Beijing PowerUnique Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of China VoIP & Digital Telecom, has signed cooperation agreements with system integrators Heilongjiang Suda Information Industry and Shenyang Rongke Technology & Engineering to market its virtualization products and solutions in China. Read Full Story…
• It’s been a while since we talked about Spotify, which has been putting a lot of energy into gearing up to launch in America. With co-founder Daniel Ek talking at South by South West yesterday, people thought the company might launch itself in the states – but no such luck. Ek • Has Google’s Nexus One phone been a flop or not? Flurry, a mobile analytics company, estimates that sales are at around 135,000 since launch – just a smidgen of the numbers shifted by other handsets like the iPhone and Droid over the same period. Ryan Block, formerly of Engadget and now with GDGT, says that’s not failure – after all, Google is only selling it online and not giving it the huge push other handsets get. Still seems like the company wouldn’t want to put in so much effort for so little payoff. One thing we do know for certain, though: Google has had its attempt to trademark the Nexus One name rejected, though it’s got nothing to do with Philip K Dick. • And… it’s almost a year since Microsoft took the great leap forward and introduced Internet Explorer 8. Now the company is forging ahead with IE9. You can see some demos and read more about what it can do in these guides. Some stuff in there about HTML5 support, CSS3 and SVG. One note – perhaps unsurprising – is that it will not support Windows XP. You can follow our links and commentary each day through Twitter (@guardiantech, @gdngames or our personal accounts) or by watching our Delicious feed.
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The operator has been chosen by Samsung as the first to sell the Jet Ultra Edition, with the first 10,000 customers receiving a gift exclusive to O2 Read Full Story…
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Only 865,000 behind the Jesus PhoneGoogle has sold a mere 135,000 Nexus One phones since its much-ballyhooed launch on January 5, according to the latest numbers from mobile analytics outfit Flurry.…
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Mar
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2010
Apple v Google: the gloves are starting to come offPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
When Apple decided to sue Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC, it was hard to see it as anything other than a broadside at Google. After all, HTC makes Nexus One handset, and Steve Jobs has previously told staff that he’s angry because “We did not enter the search business… they entered the phone business”. The ever-growing conflict between the two is something I mentioned on Monday, and plenty of people have weighed in on the subject, including former Sun Microsystems boss Jonathan Schwartz, who said that any company launching a software patent lawsuit was basically undertaking an “act of desperation”. But most of the action so far has been from Apple’s side – the accusations about its rivals (including Nokia, which has in turn accused the iPhone maker of “legal alchemy”); the offended and aggrieved statements by Jobs and so on. So where’s Google in this fight? Is it just staying quiet? Step forward Tim Bray, the Canadian technologist best known for his work on XML. Bray – who has written eloquently on software patents before and who left Sun himself last month – announced over the weekend that he was joining Google’s Android team. Oh yeah, then he immediately poured fuel onto the fire with an extremely strong broadside about why he dislikes Apple’s approach:
Strong words, and proof that Googlers are prepared to fire back from time to time. It will be interesting to see how long Bray is allowed to speak his mind like this (staff commenting, even obliquely, on lawsuits is something most corporate lawyers dislike intensely) but it’s refreshing to see somebody on either side speaking openly and on the record.
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MS says everything’s in. Just not in this releaseMix10 “In this release, our focus is on phones purchased by consumers,” said Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel, describing the Windows Phone 7 developer platform to attendees at the Mix conference in Las Vegas on Monday.…
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Mar
16
2010
Opera unleashes final Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10Posted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Yes, Jesus Phone Mini still in limboOpera has released final versions of its Opera Mini 5 browser for Java-based phones and BlackBerries and its Opera Mobile 10 browser for Symbian S60-based devices and Windows Mobile phones.…
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Mar
16
2010
Tranzeo Wireless wins $14 million deal from TRGPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Tranzeo Wireless Technologies, a manufacturer of wireless broadband and WiMAX communication systems, has received a $14 million purchase order from Indonesia-based PT Teknologi Riset Global. Read Full Story…
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Mar
15
2010
Windows Phone 7: free tools, captive MarketplacePosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Microsoft apes AppleMix10 Microsoft aims to lure Windows Phone 7 developers with free tools. That’s the good news. The less-good news is that Redmond plans to lock down the platform à la Apple’s App Store.…
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