In contrast, number one RIM saw its market share drop 15 percent, from 37.3 percent to 31.6 percent. Apple’s share of the US smartphone platform market grew about three percent, from 24.3 percent to 25 percent.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Android US Mobile Market Share Jumps 34%
While Google Android remained the second-most-popular US smartphone platform in the three-month-average ending December 2010 with 28.7 percent market share, that share improved about 34 percent from 21.4 percent in the three-month-average ending September 2010, according to new comScore data.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
OpenX Upgrades Ad Platform
OpenX, a provider of digital advertising technology for Web publishers such as Groupon, has updated the ad technology platform in use by Groupon, Orange-France Telecom and Excite Japan.
OpenX ad-serving products are used by more than 200,000 websites in more than 100 countries, and serve more than 350 billion ads monthly.
OpenX ad-serving products are used by more than 200,000 websites in more than 100 countries, and serve more than 350 billion ads monthly.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
HTC Buys Gaming Company
HTC has bought mobile video specialists Saffron Digital and OnLive, suggesting HTC soon will launch a cloud-based, gaming-on-demand service.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Email is Going Mobile
More people are using their mobile phones to access their email, causing a drop in web-based email usage.
According to comScore’s stats, the number of people visiting a web-based email site went down 6% over last year. Not a huge number, but look at the other side. Mobile email usage grew by 36% over last year.
Web-based email has always been about ease of access. If you’re only using Outlook then your work emails stay at work and home emails stay home. Forwarding emails from one computer to another was the only way to gather all of the information in one place and if you were traveling the you were stuck.
According to comScore’s stats, the number of people visiting a web-based email site went down 6% over last year. Not a huge number, but look at the other side. Mobile email usage grew by 36% over last year.
Age plays a huge factor in the web vs mobile saga (surprise, surprise), with a 53% decline in web-mail usage in the 12-17 age group.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Allot MobileTrends Report, H2 2010 - Allot
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Third French Bank Joins Mobile Payment Test in Nice
Credit Agricole has joined the pre-commercial trial of near field communications services in the French city of Nice.
Credit Agricole joins Credit Mutuel-CIC and BNP Paribas in launching mobile payment for the Nice project. The two other banks had launched services during the latter part of 2010.
About 3,000 users can tap to pay at a limited number of merchant outlets in Nice, along with paying fares on buses and trams and tapping NFC tags in posters for information.
Credit Agricole joins Credit Mutuel-CIC and BNP Paribas in launching mobile payment for the Nice project. The two other banks had launched services during the latter part of 2010.
About 3,000 users can tap to pay at a limited number of merchant outlets in Nice, along with paying fares on buses and trams and tapping NFC tags in posters for information.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Scoial CRM 8% of Total in 2012
By 2013, spending on social software to support sales, marketing and customer service processes will exceed $1 billion worldwide, out of a total of about $12 billion in spending for all CRM, according to Gartner. Social CRM will represent approximately eight percent of all CRM spending in 2012, up from approximately four percent in 2010.
By 2015, a third of spending on new CRM software will be delivered using software as a service, and hosted in the cloud.
By 2015, a third of spending on new CRM software will be delivered using software as a service, and hosted in the cloud.
In 2009, 24 percent of the CRM software market was delivered by SaaS, and this rose to more than 26 percent in 2010, up from virtually zero in 1999. By 2015, Gartner forecasts that 32 percent of the CRM software market will be delivered by SaaS.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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