UK online retail report: Mobile and Web driving changes to high street
Online retail is growing six times faster than high street sales and is predicted to exceed £37 billion by 2014, according to new research.
Apple
Are tablets cannibalising laptop sales? YouGov data says yes
Approximately one in twelve Tablet owners (8%) purchased a tablet instead of, or to replace a desktop computer, laptop or other computer, with 11% of Samsung Galaxy Tab and 7% of iPad owners doing so, according to new data.
Android ad market share ‘overtakes iPhone globally for first time’
Google’s Android global ad impression share has surpassed iPhone OS for the first time, according to new data from mobile ad network InMObi.
Mobile apps – Nokia’s Ovi apps store tops 5m downloads a day
New numbers from the world’s largest mobile manufacturer confirm apps adoption is still accelerating. Here in the UK it may feel like apps culture has saturated, but the increasing rate of use confirms mobile apps will play a much greater role in everyone’s lives even in markets that feel like they’ve already crossed their tipping … [Read more…]
News round-up: 13th April 2011
This week’s movers and shakers in the digital industry: AVG | Tradedoubler | Amaze | Baidu | Mobile Interactive Group | Tagman | ADTECH | Skive | Nectar | Onepoint | Turn | Return Path | Nugg.ad | Nominet | Stardoll | Two Way Media | MCM EPiServer | Code Computerlove | SAY Media | … [Read more…]
Steve Jobs to debut ‘tell all’ biography next year
Steve Jobs’s first authorised biography will be published in 2012, promising to be a ‘tell all’ account of the Apple co-founder’s rise to success.
Bing launches iPad search app
Microsoft has tailored a version of Internet search service Bing for Apple iPad tablet computer.
ITN launches royal wedding app on GetJar
ITN Productions has launched its Royal Wedding video app exclusively on app store, a week in advance of its release into the Android Market Place.
Android and Windows 7 to overtake Blackberry and iPhone by 2012- Gartner
Nearly half of the world’s smartphones will be using Google’s Android operating system by the end of 2012, according to the research firm Gartner.
Milton Keynes named UK's slowest mobile town
Milton Keynes has been named and shamed as having the slowest 3G mobile broadband speed in the UK, according to new research.