Smartphone owners are more comfortable making purchases from their handsets, however, the poor mobile site functionality is still not up to standard which makes mobile users discard the idea.
The recent study by Compete- Smartphone Intelligence Survey- has revealed that mobile commerce (m-commerce) is bound to grow drastically in 2010.
“We’re seeing notable behavior differences across devices, [...]
According to new research, Blackberrys and iPhones have proven to be the leading smartphone devices in the UK.
The number of British using smartphones rose 10% in the last three months to almost 6.2 million, with Blackberrys becoming the fastest-growing smartphone.
The study by Nielsen also revealed that browsing the web was the fastest growing UK mobile [...]
Mobile social networking is taking off and many businesses are beginning to analyze the potential business opportunities mobile social media have to offer.
This evolution has made way for the emergence of new applications such as FourSquare, Yelp and GoWalla, as pointed out by Jeremiah Owyang. So what can these mobile social networks do to tap [...]
The total number of people accessing Facebook via their mobile phones is now up to 65 million compared to just 2o million eight months ago. Since its launch in 2006, Facebook Mobile was initially available only in English.
However, due to the incrementing necessity of staying in touch with friends and contacts when there’s no computer [...]
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Good news for tourists in Paris who don’t speak French, who don’t have a map and need to find the nearest subway station to go back to the hotel. Just point the iPhone’s camera in front of you and digital information will start popping up on the street view, displaying directions to metro [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff on September 7th, 2009Mobile phone technology is advancing rapidly, but what can we expect to be using in 2015? What will our mobiles be able to do and what will they look like?
Recently, there’s been lots of news regarding mobile applications- native apps, mobile web apps, and hybrid apps and most particularly, iPhone applications. And it’s the one [...]
I remember when people used to make fun of the gizmo trends for mobile phone and asked sarcastic questions like: What can your phone do? Now with the iPhone (and more generally with all smartphones) the question without irony is: What can’t you do?
Mobile phones are like Swiss knifes or nano laptops, they enable you [...]
Is MySpace ID now a threat to Facebook Connect?
MySpaceID is said to be the equivalent of Facebook Connect in that it is an application that allows users to sign in to and export data to third-party sites using their MySpace identity.
Once users are logged in partner sites using their MySpaceID, not only are they connecting [...]
The greatly anticipated G-phone by Taiwan’s HTC will be launched tomorrow running Google’s very own mobile operating system, Android.
Time.com’s headline speaks for itself as it reads, “Android: Google’s Dream, Apple’s Nightmare.
It is NOT another iPhone-looking smartphone, the G1 will debut in the market tomorrow with a similar touch-screen as its rival, however, the device will [...]
As of today, 77Lab can join your iPhone’s main gadgets and applications. The 77Lab webclip is now available for an iPhone-friendly version of the website, this way you can always get the latest new media scoop from us no matter where you are.
This new icon can be installed into your iPhone thanks to WordPress [...]
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