Distimo's Latest App Store Analytics

Sometimes pictures are better than words, and I found that to be the case for Distimo's latest round of numbers on mobile app stores and applications. So rather than write it, here it is in pictures.

Enterprise Communications Still Relies on Email and Voice, Study Suggests

A new study of enterprise workers suggests that workers rely on more traditional forms of communication than social media to drive results, as you might expect. Some 83 percent of professionals say email is “critical” or "very important" to their overall success and productivity, and 81 percent said the same for phone calls.

Email and phone ranked the highest above all other forms of communication with audio conferences third at 61 percent.  Sending or receiving an instant message rated as critical for only 38 percent of respondents while social media ranked last at 19 percent.

If a conversation is about closing a deal or making a mission-critical decision, 77 percent of those polled said they would prefer to do it in person. And of those polled, 65 percent said they preferred talking in person when discussing complicated technical concepts and
64 percent would rather do their brainstorming in person.

In fact, 53 percent of all respondents said that they spend 10 or more hours on the phone each week. How can that be if one-to-one phone calls have declined? It appears that more phone time is spent in audio conferences rather than one-to-one conversations.

About 83 percent of respondents said that they dial into an audio conference “frequently" or "all the time” for work. About 56 percent
said that most calls were made from a desk phone, followed by amobile phone (39 percent) and softphone (five percent).

The survey also suggests enterprise workers are making more use of virtually every form of communications with the possible exception of traditional phone calls.

Plantronics surveyed 1,800 enterprise employees in the US, UK, Germany, China, India and Australia. All work in medium or large size companies (100+ employees) and identified themselves as knowledge workers (people whose work centers on developing or working primarily with ideas and information) who use a variety of communications technologies to stay in touch with colleagues, partners and clients. The research was conducted in May and June of 2010.

Vinod Khosla Offers Some Serious Advice for Entrepreneurs

 According to investor Vinod Khosla, too many companies who want to think big are doomed to remain small because they pick the wrong investors.


“Any investor who looks at exit strategies, or multiples of investment or even does an IRR calculation, a rate of return calculation, probably is the wrong partner for you,” says Khosla. 

“I think the single, most important fact about doing a startup is being clear about your vision and not let it get distorted by what pundits and experts tell you," Khosla says. "But the second most important thing is finding the right team, and that’s really, really hard."

Khosla says he spent well over 50 percent of his time recruiting, and he encourages all entrepreneurs to try and do that.

Vinod Khosla: New CEOs Should Spend More Than 50% Of Their Time Recruiting (TCTV)

AT&T Voicemail Viewer App Delivers Home Phone Messages to Smartphone

AT&T has announced the launch of the "AT&T Voicemail Viewer" app, which lets AT&T U-verse voice customers easily check and manage their home phone messages with visual voicemail on their smartphone. It isn't immediately clear whether the app works only on AT&T mobile devices or with any smartphone with a mobile broadband plan, but the absence of any language to the contrary would tend to suggest the mobile has to be using AT&T service.

The Voicemail Viewer app lists a user's home voicemail messages and allows you to choose the order in which you wish to listen to them. The app also provides a notification when a new voicemail arrives on your home phone, plus the ability to delete voicemails remotely.

New AT&T Voicemail Viewer App Delivers Home Phone Messages to Smartphone

Smartphone Subscribers Now Drive Mobile Browser Use

The number of Smartphone users accessing mobile content through browsers and applications now surpasses that of non-smartphone users, says comScore. In the three-month period ending August 2010, smartphone subscribers made up 60 percent of those who used a downloaded application and 55 percent of those who used a browser.

In August 2010, 75.6 million mobile subscribers ages 13 and older used downloaded applications, with smartphone users representing 60.4 percent, up from 43.6 percent in August 2009. For the same period, 80.8 million mobile subscribers used their browser, with smartphone subscribers comprising 55.5 percent, up from 41.4 percent a year ago.

Smartphone Subscribers Now Comprise Majority of Mobile Browser and Application Users in U.S.

North American Mobile App Revenues will Reach $10 Billion in 2015

North American mobile revenues from mobile content and applications will total $10 billion in 2015, according to Juniper Research.

Juniper predicts 150 percent growth from $4 billion in mobile content and mobile apps revenue earned in 2009.

North American Mobile Revenues will Reach $10B in 2015:

Windows Mobile 7 is Important for Microsoft,Gets AT&T Help

 Microsoft Corp. will formally unveil a lineup of smartphones using the revamped version of its mobile operating system on Oct. 11, and AT&T will begin offering them four weeks later, on an exclusive basis at least initially, according to the Wall Street Journal.