Flurry released numbers on app download totals for the end of 2012 that demonstrate the increasing popularity of smartphones and apps. The final week of the year is perhaps the most important one for app makers, as a number of new devices are activated and new apps are downloaded. As the chart highlights, there was a substantial [...]

This infographic,  posted on Pinterest by research group McKinsey and Company, contrasts the differences between the locations where tablet and smartphone users say they conduct various activities on their devices.  A quick glance shows that smartphone user activities are conducted predominately on the go while tablet user activities are conducted mostly at home. While more [...]

The “Mobile Year in Review” video, courtesy of Mobile Future, rapidly documents the evolution of mobile in 2012. Some highlights include: Mobile data usage literally DOUBLED in 2012. OVER 50 PERCENT of all mobile data was video, and consumers watched 9.3 BILLION mobile videos in the U.S. alone MORE THAN HALF of AMERICANS now own smartphones, and there are MORE THAN 1 [...]

According to Big Data/App Services company Flurry and illustrated by their chart posted here, people’s time spent consuming content on mobile apps is starting to chip away at their time spent consuming TV and web content. Specifically: This chart updates Flurry’s analysis comparing time spent in mobile apps on smartphones and tablets to time spent on [...]

On Cyber Monday we not only saw an increase in online shopping, but also an increase in mobile shopping.  On Cyber Monday the PayPal blog reported that: As of 11 a.m. PST, PayPal is already seeing 196% more mobile payment volume on Cyber Monday 2012 than Cyber Monday 2011. Further Bloomberg reported that: More than [...]

PC Advisor recently reported on some mobile trends that technology research company Gartner presented last week. One interesting trend was about the convenience of HTML5 development. Many organizations see HTML5 as a convenient solution to cross platform development (ie developing mobile products that work across various mobile platforms-Android, iOS, etc). Gartner stated: HTML5 will be [...]

People may be getting rid of cable at home, but they’re taking in more content than ever before on their mobile devices.  A new study by Millennial Media and comScore…reveals that the market for mobile entertainment content has soared during the past year. Overall, access to entertainment content — anything from downloads to streaming music [...]

The World Bank recently released the infographic below in conjunction with the Reboot Blog that highlights findings from it’s mobile ubiquity worldwide report. Here are some of the interesting findings: 75% of the world now has access to a mobile phone The number of mobile subscriptions will soon eclipse the world’s population The developing world [...]