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How Consumers Make Smatphone-prompted Purchases

Overall, 16% of smartphone users in US say they’ve made a purchase as the result of a marketing message they received on their smartphone. Android users are the most likely to report making a purchase after receiving a message on their smartphones (21%), followed by Windows Phone owners (19%), iPhone owners (17%), and Blackberry users [...]

Forrester: The Mobile App Internet Phenomenon

Originally published on Techie Buzz App Internet is a phenomenon that Forrester defines as “specialized local apps running in conjunction with cloud-based services” across smartphones, tablets, and other devices. A few weeks back, I gathered few insights on the same by Ellen Daley, Vice President at Forrester at the NASSCOM EMERGEOUT Conclave 2011.

Smartphones: Growing Market and Usage

The smartphone market has seen explosive growth in recent years, and the growth looks ominous. Recent surveys show that the current feature phone owners are rapidly switching to smartphones, while non-cell phone owners are jumping directly to smartphones with their first cell phone purchase.

HP drops webOS: What lies ahead?

Originally published in Hindustan Times Tech news these days shouldn’t be read by people with cardiac conditions or pregnant women. If Google’s surprise buyout of Motorola wasn’t enough bombshells for the week, Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will stop selling hardware based on the webOS.

Google disrupts mobile industry with Motorola buyout

Originally published in Hindustan Times Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion is larger than any that Microsoft, Apple, or other competitors in the same space ever have. Motorola Mobility(MMI) is comprised of two technology businesses – the mobile devices business and the home business as providers of digital set-top boxes and end-to-end video [...]

How Google – Motorola Impacts Windows Phone

If Nokia-Microsoft alliance was huge, Google today shocked everybody in the mobile business and consumers on different platforms by buying Motorola Mobility outright for $12.5 billion.

Numbers: Facebook on Smartphones

Researcher Benedict Evans Evans explored the numbers on the Facebook application pages of each platform to reveal interesting insights into usage of Facebook mobile applications. Facebook has a page for each application which mentions active users of the application.