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Facebook today lifted the hood on its long-awaited mobile project. It's not a phone, instead it's a way of integrating Facebook into the heart of your Android phone. It's called Home and it makes complete sense.While we've known that this was what Facebook was likely to release for a little while now, it doesn't make Home any less important. In fact, it's far more important than any device running a native Facebook OS could ever have been. Here's why. ...
Evernote is cool -- ask any one of its 15-million monthly active users. True to the company's slogan, "Remember Everything", the suite of applications designed for note taking and archiving is on top of the world.The more successful it gets, the more headlines it grabs -- like the recent password reset due to a security breach, which caused some commotion among users. But that's not keeping the company down. Users are growing with India and the UK hitting one ...
On Wednesday, Microsoft's corporate vice president of corporate communications Frank Shaw wrote a blog post detailing some of the Microsoft's progress across a number of different product areas, including Windows Phone.Among the factoids in the post was one saying that, according to a recent report from tech research company IDC, Windows Phone has shipped more than BlackBerry in 26 markets and more than iPhone in seven.The iPhone stat seems particularly impressive. Except for one thing. The blog post ...
We’ve heard a lot about sales and projections for smartphones in China – such as 199% smartphone growth in the past year – but how about active mobiles in the hands of Chinese users? The cross-promotion and ads platform Umeng has released its newest report accompanied by an infographic. It shows that, at the end of 2012, China has 160 million active Android users, with 85 million engaged in using iOS.Newly activated Android devices really started to rocket in numbers ...
Tablets use is set to rapidly escalate in emerging markets as their hunger for smart connected devices continues to grow.According to tech research company IDC, the smart connected device volume in emerging markets grew by 41.3% in 2012 with the tablet volume growing by 111.3% and smartphone volume by 69.7% year on year. Desktop and portable PC shipments meanwhile shrank by 3.8% and 0.8% respectively.The upward growth of tablets and smartphones in emerging markets is likely being driven ...
Let’s make a mobile OS that will rival Apple's iOS, and let’s give it away for free. Clever thinking by Google, at the time. As of early 2013, Google’s Android operating system has come to massively dominate smartphones worldwide, with Samsung taking the lion’s share of this dominance. The irony is almost palpable.Google has done a magnificent job. Android 4.2.2 is almost every bit as good as anything else on the market (read: iOS, Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, and the ...
Well. This is interesting. It looks like Windows Phone adherents (yes they do exist) are in for an anxious few months. Microsoft has announced that it will support Windows Phone 8 until July 2014.At this point, you're probably thinking that everything will be fine, because there'll be an upgrade. There has to be, right? Well, this is where it starts to get a little bit worrying. Microsoft has made no promises when it comes to upgrading Windows Phone 8 ...
We live in a mobile world. That much is obvious. The momentum has shifted steadily in favour of gadgets and services that are portable or mobile and those that deliver networking capabilities and entertainment. And that's changing the way we live in profound ways that you might not have even noticed yet.According to tech research company Gartner, the most profound changes are occurring in the way people organise their lives and the spaces they live in.It's got a ...
The mobile application space is set to boom across Africa, as enterprises and developers lead the world in bringing to market unique mobile applications suited to a developing market. Potential though, doesn't guarantee success.There are several reasons for Africa's potential -- crucially, the cliché that Africa is a mobile continent still holds true. Mobile devices are becoming smarter, faster and more affordable, smartphone adoption is growing by around 15% year on year across the continent, and mobile bandwidth has ...
Beggars can’t be choosers. Sometimes, you have to make do with what you can afford. And if what you can afford is not an iPhone, or the new BlackBerry, or a Galaxy, it may be a Beige Box phone.
“A beige box phone?”, you ask, “I’ve never heard of that brand.” Yep, you haven’t.Cast your mind back 20 years (if you can). For a very long time in the 90s, only the affluent, the snotty and the pecuniously profligate banks ...
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