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Blog posts tagged with 'Smart Phones'
Friday, June 11
According to a new study from Juniper Research (via Read Write Web), the market for mobile apps is expected to reach $32 billion within the next five years.
Tuesday, June 01
Roughly 18% of the 270 million cell phone users in the U.S. have smart phones.
— Bobby White, “Video on Cellphones: The Uncut Version,” The Wall Street Journal July 28, 2009.
Thursday, April 22
In an article for the Reason Foundation, Steven Titch warns that extending net neutrality regulations to wireless networks will have a drastic effect on the booming smart phone industry:
The rationale behind network neutrality is that it protects consumers by preserving a “free and open Internet.” But the freedom and openness of the Internet does not derive from the functional separation of consumer devices, content, software and carrier networks the FCC wants to enforce. The Internet is free and open because the software building blocks developers use are long-established standards. Over time, innovators large and small have used these building blocks to create tighter functional integration among mobility, interactivity, e-commerce and social networking. Their collaboration brought innovations such as the iPhone, and will continue to be consequential to the performance of e-readers like Kindle, and new devices like the iPad. Gearheads call it Web 2.0. For consumers, it’s what makes Facebook, Twitter, Pandora and Google Maps easy and fun to use from virtually anywhere.
It’s hard to imagine Apple or Amazon or any other company approaching a service provider with an innovative idea for a new network device if the FCC is going to reserve the right to review any service provider collaboration as a potential network neutrality violation. Web entrepreneurs will find it hard to win investors when they have to offer a caveat that there might be months or years of regulatory delays before their idea sees market daylight, if it ever does.
Wednesday, March 03
Google’s major push in the lucrative smart phone market with its Nexus One has not escaped Apple’s attention. Case in point: The lawsuit filed by Apple yesterday against HTC, the Taiwanese company that manufacture’s Google’s phone.
Monday, July 20
The number of U.S. subscribers with broadband access on their smartphones and other devices has grown from 3 million in 2006 to 73 million in 2008.
Grant Gross, “US Broadband Ranking: Does it Matter?” NYTimes.com. June 5, 2009.
Friday, April 24
For the past few weeks, Apple has been counting down to its one billionth download of an application for its popular iPhone. Today, the company has announced that they’ve reached the mark, along with the person who hit it. From the press release:
Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded one billion applications from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The one billionth app, Bump created by Bump Technologies, was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT. As the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest, Connor will receive a $10,000 iTunes® gift card, an iPod® touch, a Time Capsule® and a MacBook® Pro.
Tuesday, February 10
Cheaper laptops and devices like the iPhone are leading to a a coming explosion in mobile video, according to tech giant Cisco:
Almost 64 percent of the world’s mobile traffic will be video within the next five years, according to Cisco’s latest VNI (Visual Networking Index) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013 released Feb. 10. They key driver of the mobile traffic will be laptops, netbooks and smartphones connecting to the network.
Overall, Cisco predicts global mobile traffic will increase 66-fold with a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 131 percent over that same five-year period. The growth rate primarily reflects the anticipated migration of users to a 4G mobile Internet that will allow consumers to view more mobile video and access a variety of mobile broadband services.
Better still, all this growth is expected to be unaffected by the current economy:
Despite a bleak economic climate, Doug Webster, a senior director for service provider marketing at Cisco, said the trend to a unbiqitous mobile Internet is undeniable.
“There were a half billion new subscribers to mobile networks last year alone,” Webster said. “Half of the world’s population is already on a mobile network. I really don’t think [the current economy] will have any great impact.”
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