Top 10 highlights of 2011 and predictions for 2012 2011 has been an exciting time for the mobile industry seeing many changes take place, some of which were on the cards and others totally unexpected. With consumers increasingly using their mobile devices for more than just calling and texting, internet usage and app downloads soared [...]

…and how web innovation will challenge Apples control Everyone in mobile knows that to sell something on the iOS platform you must pay your 30% tax to Apple, and that Apple has final say over whether your app will be published to iPhone users – they have control over the developer’s destiny. But just how [...]

Back in the day web pages were displayed one at a time after a long loading process. The advent of Flash allowed websites to become live and interactive. Flash enabled animation, motion and video dramatically improving the user experience. Then internet enabled mobile devices exploded in use and issues arose with the poor user experience [...]

…what the mobile industry can learn from car manufacturers With the coming of quad core CPUs in mobile phones in 2012, are the manufacturers focusing on the right fight or are they in a spiralling battle over engine size? Adam Bunker, over at Electricpig recently wrote an interesting article about this new wave of ever [...]

I recently read an interesting blog post asking, “Should you pay $ 150,000 for your web analytics tool?”, this is a great question given there are so many free solutions available. After all, free is a very attractive price point. The blog post covers a number of important areas and makes some excellent conclusions; for [...]

Recent numbers published by a developer selling on the BlackBerry App Store show a straight line, month on month increase in the percentage of revenue contributed from carrier-billed payments. It’s clear that when available, customers like to charge mobile-purchased, digital content and services, to their phone bills. As blogged recently by Bango, this is great [...]

With Gartner forecasting that the tablet market is set to grow from 63.6 million sales in 2011 to 326.3 million by the end of 2015, it comes as a bit of a surprise that Asustek, Acer and Dell all announce they are out of the Android tablet market. One has to wonder whether their decision [...]