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Mobile multimedia services are expected to account for around 11 percent of the total mobile services revenue in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ), by end of 2009, which will enable them to outpace the revenue from SMS services for the first time, according to a recently published report from IDC. During last year... |
23 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The global market for smartphones is registering steady growth although the world has been affected by the financial turmoil, a recent report for IDC notes. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that a total number of 43.3 million smartphones have been shipped during this year’s third quart... |
5 November 2009
13:41 GMT |
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The worldwide mobile phone market, as many of you might already know, has been greatly impacted by the financial downturn, and it was said on some occasions to be shrinking by about 10 percent during 2009, when compared to the previous year. The third quarter of 2009 has shown some signs of improvement for the market... |
2 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The global mobile phone market has reportedly seen some increase in the third quarter of the ongoing year, although it still remained lower than in the third quarter of last year. IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker shows that the mobile phone shipments in the time frame totaled 287.1 million units all around ... |
30 October 2009
11:09 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the number of mobile business customers in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 4.2 percent. The research firm also says that the economic growth in India and China are the main factors to influence these fac... |
28 October 2009
07:06 GMT |
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BWA/WiMAX managed to top 4 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter of this year, a recent report from analyst firm Maravedis shows. A number of around 560,000 BWA/WiMAX subscribers were added in Q2, the report says, also unveiling that subscriber growth rate in the time frame was 16.5 percent higher than... |
20 October 2009
09:34 GMT |
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Twitter has seen some spectacular growth earlier this year and, thanks to the number of celebrities that started using it, a lot of attention from the mainstream audience. But, while the users skyrocketed, there was an increasing number of nay-sayers doubting that the microblogging service could sustain the growth or... |
26 September 2009
06:08 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the cellular M2M connections are expected to see an impressive growth in number during the following few years, namely tripling the current 75 million by 2014. These connections, which enable machines to make wireless calls between them, are shared equally b... |
23 September 2009
02:49 GMT |
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HTC seems determined to gain a lot of market share on the United States mobile phone market, at least this is what Jason Mackenzie, vice president of sales and marketing for HTC America, has told Reuters recently. According to him, the mobile phone maker expects to register a 50 percent growth in sales during the ong... |
26 June 2009
08:39 GMT |
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According to a recent study published by Strategy Analytics, global Android smartphone shipments are expected to grow 900 percent during the ongoing year, based on great support the platform will see from operators, as well as from mobile phone vendors and developers. Basically, the Android shipments should grow abou... |
12 May 2009
03:11 GMT |
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MetroPCS has announced that its revenue for the first quarter of the ongoing year has reached $795 million, increasing 20 percent from the $622 million registered during the same time frame a year ago. At the same time, the company has also mentioned that the ARPU in the quarter went down to $40.40, lower than the $4... |
8 May 2009
05:16 GMT |
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HTC Corporation announced on Monday the financial results for the first quarter of the ongoing year and posted total revenues of NT$31,590 million (around US$955 million) for the time frame, translated into a 3.40 percent drop compared to the same period a year ago. In addition, the company also announced that its re... |
5 May 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Up until now, the global shipments of mobile phones as well as the subscription numbers managed to maintain a rather steady line during the global economical downturn, yet it seems that the future will not be as bright as expected, In-Stat reports. According to the company, both mobile phone shipments and subscriptio... |
17 April 2009
05:48 GMT |
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ZTE is a leading telecommunications equipment maker from China, yet it also has a strong position on the mobile phone market, and it is expected to grow even more in the future, so as to become one of the top five phone vendors in the world during the ongoing year. Putting the company's name beside other ones in... |
8 April 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Smartphones have registered a great amount of success lately, and their wider usage is also seen as a great way for mobile gaming to propel. According to comScore, more and more users are downloading mobile games in the US. In November last year, their number reached 8.5 million, 17 percent higher than a year before.... |
2 February 2009
10:00 GMT |
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A recent study performed by comScore shows that the Russian Internet market is the fastest growing in Europe. As of last year, the Russian Internet audience expanded by 27%, 6% more compared to the second European country in the chart, France. Ireland is the third to have developed its audience at a fast pace, being... |
28 August 2008
05:38 GMT |
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In the end, they were right when they gave Popeye, the cartoon sailor, spinach instead of garlic as enhancement for his supernatural powers. For long, spinach was said to be rich in calcium and iron (later researches proved this was just rubbish), but a new research has, for the first time, proved its ability to boos... |
8 May 2008
04:52 GMT |
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During the womb development, nipple will grow on front and the spine in the back. A team at the University of Auckland has also found why, in a research published in Nature Cell Biology. The gene Runx2 was already known to control bone development, but the researchers led by Dr Maria Flores, senior research fellow of... |
29 February 2008
07:18 GMT |
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These are the extremes: the world's tallest dog Gibson (7 ft / 2.1 m tall when standing on his hind legs) has met Boo Boo (4 in / 10 cm high) the world's smallest dog in Sacramento, California for Guinness World Records Day 2007.No doubt, the Chihuahua, a dog race that has its origins in northwestern Mexico... |
9 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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After some months that saw problems in various branches of the computer manufacturing industry encounter supply or very low market prices that drove hardware component shipments to very low levels, the market research firm IDC predicts that the current market trend and increasing demand for customers will drive the e... |
14 September 2007
08:36 GMT |
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Bye bye, Bao! The previous holder of the title "The tallest living man", a Chinese citizen of Mongolian ethnic root, Bao Xishun, with his 2.36m (7ft 9in) height, is a dwarf compared to the new record holder. The Ukrainian man Leonid Stadnyk, 37, has been recognized as the world's tallest living person by the Gui... |
10 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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One important physical difference between humans and apes concerns human hair's ability to grow ceaselessly. And people make great fuss about their head adornment, as hair can be a sign of good health. Sometimes, this can turn a little bit ridiculous, like in this case: the hair is longer than the owner. Xia Aif... |
21 July 2007
05:53 GMT |
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We all know that the Earth's day is made of roughly 24 hours (there is an error of few seconds, corrected in the leap year) and it is due to the Earth's rotation movement around its own axis, that exposes different longitudes to the sunlight during this cycle. But some old fossils came with a very puzzling ... |
7 May 2007
19:06 GMT |
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You work hard to look like Vin Diesel and you keep on displaying an Adrien Brody look?In this case, you should not miss your milk cups. A new research addressed to bodybuilders signals that milk protein is much better than soy at growing muscles. The study made by a team from McMaster University's Department of ... |
11 April 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Organic food producers and advocacy groups have supported the idea that milk from hormone-treated cows leads to the onset of early puberty as well as cancer risk. U.S. sales of organic dairy products rose from $133 million in 1996 to $1.3 billion in 2001, even if their cost is double than that of conventional product... |
21 March 2007
06:21 GMT |
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Have you noticed that many plants grow in spiral?The pineapple, for example, can have 8 scale spirals headed into one direction and 5 or 13 headed towards the other direction. If you look at the seeds of the sunflower, you will see at least 55, respectively 89, spirals crossing each other. The cauliflower also displa... |
19 March 2007
11:26 GMT |
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Having a twin sister proves to be a huge reproductive disadvantage for males. At least for the saiga antelopes roaming the Eurasian steppe. A three years research found that male twins who have a sister present a lower, sub-optimal birth bodyweight than those with a brother, a trait they will display also at maturity... |
19 March 2007
07:45 GMT |
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