According to the new Ofcom Communications Market Report, 40% of Britons now own a smartphone, while tablet ownership in the UK has increased from 2% to 11% over the past year.
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With two weeks to go until the London 2012 Olympics begin, the BBC has released its Olympic app for iPhones and Android smartphones.
Following recent poor financial figures and widespread media speculation concerning the future of Research In Motion (RIM), the company’s CEO admitted the extent of RIM’s suffering to shareholders.
Almost half of those aged between 16 and 24-years-old find out breaking news from social networks, primarily Facebook and Twitter, rather than traditional sources such as search engines.
A report from Transparency Market Research has predicted that the global market for mobile content will rise to a total value of $18.6 billion by 2017.
Raymond Snoddy says that the latest advertising spend figures are certainly good news for most, but its at the local level where some of the most positive developments are taking place, and not in the area you might expect…Great news from Nielsen – advertising spending is up, up and up on every available medium. Well,… Continue reading Growth in global ad spend is industry’s “crumb of comfort”
