Google’s Android OS was the only mobile platform experiencing significant growth in the US during the three months ending in January, carving out over four percentage points of market share, ComScore said.
March 15, 2010
March 9, 2010
Smartphones become a botnet target
Mobile phones could be the next target for computer hackers using botnets, after a computer security firm proved the malicious code can be installed in smartphones.
Security outfit TippingPoint say installing botnets in smartphones is a relatively easy task, after already installing corrupted software on nearly 8,000 of the mobile devices, via a downloadable
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March 5, 2010
Mobile access to Twitter surging: ComScore
Facebook remains the most popular social networking site for mobile users, despite rival Twitter enjoying a 347% rise in the number of subscribers accessing the site on their phone.
Figures from ComScore show 4.7 million users accessed Twitter from their phone in January, up from 1.1 million in January 2009.
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March 4, 2010
Nokia launches Skype for smartphones
Skype can be downloaded onto 23 devices from Nokia starting today, Nokia has announced.
However, users on the Official Nokia Blog site are reporting problems with the downloading the app.
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Mobile data traffic boom outweighs rise in sales
US mobile network operators are struggling to keep up with a surge in data traffic, with diminishing returns to show for their efforts, according to Chetan Sharma Consulting.
Mobile data consumption soared 193% in 2009 to nearly 400 petabytes, yet data service revenues grew by just 29% to $44 billion, it says in a new
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March 3, 2010
Apple sues HTC over iPhone patents
Apple has sued Taiwan-based HTC for allegedly using iPhone technologies in Nexus One and other smartphones.
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March 2, 2010
Aggressive pricing to drive China smartphone sales
The three Chinese mobile operators, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, have been planning to launch their own smartphone offerings since 3G licenses were awarded in 2009.
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March 1, 2010
Wi-Fi offload for mobile data a temporary fix
If it’s cheaper to plug in some wireless access points than to build a base station or cell site, then why not take advantage of smartphone Wi-Fi capabilities to offload some mobile data traffic with public Wi-Fi hotspots? Sounds logical, but wireless operators feeling the data crunch may want to consider it only as a temporary fix — not a permanent solution.
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US wireless market grew 3.3% in ‘09: TIA
The overall wireless telecom market reached $215 billion in revenues and expanded to include 276 million customers in 2009 despite an economic meltdown, according to a new market overview. While the industry isn’t out of the woods yet, analysts see better days ahead, keyed in part by predictions of increasing revenue from smartphone sales.
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Child labor used in iPhone plants
Chid labor was used in three factories plants making the iPhone, Apple has revealed.
The smartphone is one of a number of popular Apple products found to have been made using parts assembled by children as young as 15 years old at several unspecified locations throughout Apple’s supply chain.
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