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What happened to the growth in mobile gaming?

Posted in Games on 19th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

Not only has revenue growth slowed down, but the cost of doing business has also risen substantially over the last few years.

China passed 250M 4G users in July, more than double the subscribers in the U.S.

Posted in Hardware on 25th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

If you throw 3G users into the mix, that number shoots up to a whopping 695 million users, with Chinas total mobile user base now at 1.29 billion.

The UK now prefers using phones to get online over laptops

Posted in Business on 6th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

It marks a significant shift. Just last year 22% named their phone as their most important means of getting online, with a solid 40% naming their laptop.

Nearly half of Facebooks users only access the service on mobile

Posted in Business on 30th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Today Facebook revealed that it now has more than 1.49 billion monthly active users, 655 million of whom only access Facebook via a mobile device.

Researchers Test Smartphones for Earthquake Warning

Posted in Software on 27th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Crowdsourcing smartphone data could provide valuable advance notice for people in quake zones.