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11 percent of Brits use mobile devices in the sack

8 July 2011, 16:13

But talking too loudly on mobile phones in public is the UK’s number one pet peeve.

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Android takes yet more US phone share from BlackBerry

6 July 2011, 18:25

New figures from comScore show Android’s US growth shows no sign of slowing.

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Mobile and social to drive gaming growth

5 July 2011, 15:35

New figures from Gartner reveal shifts in the global gaming market.

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BT says we need to go on a ‘communications diet’

5 July 2011, 10:12

A study BT commissioned concluded communications technology is doing our heads in.

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Majority of US new phones are smartphones

30 June 2011, 16:09

Smartphones fast becoming the default on the other side of the pond.

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Intel gains chip share in Q1 despite recall

30 June 2011, 15:07

The chip giant takes the Cougar Point recall in its stride.

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Canalys says operators can compete on app stores by offering less

29 June 2011, 12:14

A rather counter-intuitive view as app revenue set to continue rapid growth.

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Facebook tops all Microsoft sites in UK traffic

27 June 2011, 16:59

The giant social network overtakes Microsoft for the first time to take number two spot.

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iPhone by far the most popular smartphone in Europe

24 June 2011, 14:42

A new survey reveals two fifths of Western European smartphone buyers want Apple.

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Two thirds of UK apps accessed on an Apple device

22 June 2011, 17:54

But three out of the top five apps are made by Google, according to new research.

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App downloads booming in Asia, but mainly free ones

22 June 2011, 12:03

Asian countries are even more reluctant to pay for apps than Western ones.

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Adobe ceasing development of AIR for desktop Linux

16 June 2011, 15:03

Will focus on mobile, instead.

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Pandora IPO pops initially, then calms down

15 June 2011, 16:25

The US internet radio company has had a calmer first day’s trading than Linked-In.

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Mobile wallet has a long way to go to convince consumers

14 June 2011, 17:14

A recent study by YouGov reveals most people still know nothing about it.

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Facebook loses share to Twitter and YouTube in UK

14 June 2011, 13:26

Further evidence that Facebook may have peaked in mature markets.

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Samsung and Apple predicted to overtake Nokia in smartphones this quarter

13 June 2011, 18:05

The bad vibes just keep coming.

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Facebook loses users in mature markets

13 June 2011, 10:15

Growth in the UK, US and Canada goes into reverse, but is this a broader trend?

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Smartphone shipments to near one billion by 2016 with WP7 second biggest platform

10 June 2011, 09:52

The floodgates are open, according to IDC.

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UK leads Europe in mobile app use

9 June 2011, 12:53

A new study from Flurry declares apps are the 8th mass market media channel.

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Apple is the world’s biggest OEM semiconductor buyer

8 June 2011, 17:46

Overtook HP last year and is pulling away rapidly.

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Mobile display advertising is growing rapidly

8 June 2011, 14:56

New data reveals number of advertisers has doubled in the US in two years.

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IDC cuts PC market forecast, blames everything

6 June 2011, 15:51

Consumer saturation, dodgy global economy and mobile devices all to blame.

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Trouble in EMEA for Acer - $150 million write-off and 300 redundancies

1 June 2011, 16:42

An investigation of EMEA operations has revealed ‘abnormalities’. Cheap lappies on the way?

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Android users reluctant to pay for apps

27 May 2011, 16:28

Google’s self-fulfilling prophecy continues.

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Study: mobile devices make life more complicated

23 May 2011, 10:58

A recent study of ‘affluents’ reveals they thing mobile devices are a mixed blessing.

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Apple Mac enterprise surge proves durable

23 May 2011, 09:48

The iPhone halo effect has even extended to the corporate markets.

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Gartner WP7 sales estimates – not good

19 May 2011, 18:29

Microsoft has kept WP7 figures to itself, but Gartner doesn’t reckon it’s sold many.

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LinkedIn shares go ballistic after floatation

19 May 2011, 16:49

Shares trade at double the initial valuation as talk of speculative bubbles abounds.

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Apple joins the top five UK PC vendors for the first time

17 May 2011, 15:29

As the PC market declined for everyone else, Apple continued to grow.

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Microsoft continues to claw US search share from Google

12 May 2011, 11:13

The latest comScore figures show another incremental gain for Microsoft.

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iSuppli: smartphone market shrank in Q1

9 May 2011, 16:37

A rare blip in the growth of smartphones Verizon iPhone sees Apple grab more share.

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Apple topples Google as world’s most valuable brand

9 May 2011, 09:32

Has increased in value by 859 percent since 2006.

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Smartphones: Samsung and HTC grow faster than Apple

6 May 2011, 11:32

Worldwide smartphone shipments are booming, with Nokia still on top.

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