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Very few of phone users download music from stores on their phones

Published on: 22nd May, 2010

Direct downloads are only a small part of the music loaded on phones, according to a comScore study. Although around 24 percent of all phones are used by their owners to play music, but only two percent of them obtained the music from stores found on the respective phones. The other 22 percent of the [...]

Apple’s iPad to jeopardize the netbook market

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Apple’s iPad already has harmful effects on the netbook market, as new research by analyst Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley shows. The year-over-year growth in sales of netbooks began to dramatically decrease in January, at the same time the iPad was announced. In April, when the iPad shipped, they remained flat at five percent. According [...]

A 68% growth of the Android Market applications in March

Published on: 13th April, 2010

Android applications reaching the Android Market have grown by 68 percent in March, according to AndroLib. The number of titles appended to the store has reached 5,532 in February, while the application number has grown by a much larger number, 9,320 titles last month. There is no official estimation for the total Android catalogue, although [...]

About 27 percent of e-reader owners would have preferred to wait for iPad

Published on: 14th March, 2010

About 25 percent of those customers having bought an e-book reader would have preferred to buy an iPad. About 27 percent of the persons who owned an e-reader device as of February would have preferred to buy an Apple device instead. Less than half of them, i.e. 45 percent, would still have chosen the device [...]

The market for smartphone apps could grow by eight times in three years

Published on: 9th March, 2010

According to a recent research2guidance estimate, in the next three years, the smartphone applications market could grow by more than eight times. Last year’s revenue has reached about $1.94 billion; by 2013, the market could grow over 807 percent, to almost $15.65 billion. The prediction has been based on a major push into smartphones around [...]

iPad has catalyzed the iPhone application development

Published on: 18th February, 2010

Analysts say that the iPad has catalyzed the iPhone application development in a spectacular way compared to Android. iPhone application development nearly tripled in January versus December, from 600 new applications to over 1,600. The iPad launch is considered a potential opportunity for early applications to get more sales.
Google’s platform has seen a development jump [...]

Digital quantum battery proposed by the University of Illinois

Published on: 27th December, 2009

Alfred Hubler, a physicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus, has described a new digital quantum battery that could offer both a huge increase of the energy output and in storage capacity. The gains are still theoretical at this moment, but the new concept consists in billions of nanoscale capacitors and is based on [...]

The iPhone is comfortably leading over smaller rivals

Published on: 20th November, 2009

Recent data regarding the summer sales of cell phones reveal interesting tendencies of this industry. The influence of Apple on the smartphone market has increased, as data for this summer confirmed. The iPhone platform has reach 17.1 percent compared to 12.9 percent at the beginning of this time frame. This means the iPhone is on [...]

Studies Reveal an Increase in US Mac Users

Published on: 10th October, 2009

Studies conducted by the NPD Group have revealed a growth of US homes that have at least one Mac. As opposed to last year, when the figure was of only nine percent, in 2009 the growth reached 12%. Even though this a huge leap for Mac, 85 percent of these homes also have [...]