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Tag: Smartphone
Smartphone Market Share: Report Finds Apple Gains
More than 1 billion smartphones were shipped worldwide in 4Q 2014, with a record-setting total of 74.5 million iPhones contributing to 29 percent year-over-year growth, according to the latest market data from Juniper Research. Smartphone…
Public Wi-Fi and Minorities: Study Finds Strong Benefits
African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to use public Wi-Fi networks and use them more often. Furthermore, they report more in the way of positive impacts from public Wi-Fi use than their Caucasian counterparts, according…
Older Adults and Technology Use Survey: 56% Need Help
Surveying 100 people from a member base comprised predominantly of those 55 and older, technology support company iTOK found that well over half (56 percent) needed help learning how to use the new consumer information…
IAB: Mobile App Usage Has Been Overestimated
Much has been written about mobile app, as opposed to mobile Web, use becoming the predominant means for mobile device users to access content and make use of the Internet. But new market research from…
Study: Young Adults’ Spending Via Smartphone is $51 a Month
Men are much more likely than women (56% to 45%) to make purchases via smartphone, according to a new study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence and Verizon’s Precision Markets…
IDC: Smartphone Shipments to Grow 26.3% in 2014
Worldwide smartphone shipments will increase 26.3 percent year-over-year in 2014, reaching nearly 1.3 billion units, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker market data service. Looking ahead to 2015, IDC expects worldwide…
Report: Large-Screen Smartphone Data Usage Higher than for Small Screens
Mobile device screen size is strongly and positively correlated with mobile app usage, according to new market research in which mobile usage data provider Mobidia and IHS Technology delve into “the impact of smartphone screen…
Could Time Warner Cable’s Phone 2 Go App Stem Landline Cord Cutting?
Time Warner Cable today launched what could be a service provider’s best shot at stemming ongoing landline phone service erosion. But it’s only an option for services providers who, like TWC, have converted their voice…
LRG: U.S. Broadband Penetration Rises to 79% of Households, Smartphone Role Increasing
Broadband penetration among U.S. households continued to rise in 2014, according to a new consumer study from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). Seventy-nine percent of U.S. households now receive broadband Internet service at home, up from…
TiVo: Percent of TV Viewers Multitasking Hits 94%
Excerpts from TiVo’s “Second Annual TiVo Multitasking and Social TV Survey” reveal that TV viewers are doing a lot more multitasking while watching TV. Just over half (51 percent) of TiVo’s 856 survey respondents said…
IHS iPhone 6 Tear-Down: Plus Model Costs Only $15.50 More to Build
Investors in Apple’s shares have long cheered the company’s ability to command premium prices, and fanatic customer allegiance, for its sleekly designed consumer electronics (CE) products. Apple continues to pursue that strategy with the launch…
Ooyala: Mobile Video Viewership Up 127% in One Year
The proliferation of small mobile screens and accelerating deployment of the latest generation mobile broadband networks continue to drive mobile video viewership higher and higher. Mobile video viewership more than doubled in the past year…