Stat Spot: Children’s use of mobile and social networking
20%
…of 8 – 15 year olds in the UK have given out their mobile phone number on-line, giving rise to concerns about privacy and cyber-bullying through social network sites. Source: Garlik (Word Doc, Download).
iPhone, Nokia, Google and the web: a strategy picture
Apple has announced the iPhone will support 3rd party development through an integrated version of the Safari 3 web browser, enabling programmers to write applications based on web standards like HTML and AJAX. Although Apple’s official stance at…
Stat Spot: Mobile payment refund rates
142
…refunds per 100,000 WAP-based payment transactions using Bango’s platform. This is significantly lower than premium SMS, which typically records refund rates of between 10 and 20 percent. Source: Bango.
Hands-on with the HTC Touch – a broken experience
Interacting with your mobile device should be as simple as touching a sheet of paper according to John Wang, Chief Marketing Officer of HTC, and the man behind the company’s new Touch device. Indeed, Wang told me he is hoping customers will find …
Has Palm dropped the ball?
There’s been a lot of negative press about Palm’s new Foleo product since it was announced last week. Many are even questioning whether Palm has any relevance in the current climate of the mobile telecoms industry. For those who are interested i…
Palm’s new product category re-focuses on synchronisation
Palm, the mobile computing pioneer best known for its Treo smartphones, has announced the first product in a new category of mobile computing companion devices. The Foleo resembles a small laptop and pairs with a smartphone to provide a larger sc…
How to understand users
The New Yorker has an interesting 30 minute video presentation by Younghee Jung of Nokia about how our usage of mobile devices may evolve in the near future (five years or so). Jung explains Nokia’s approach to user understanding and provides som…
Delivering the Wi-Fi promise
My Nokia N80 handset, like many others from the Finnish manufacturer, is equipped with Wi-Fi capability. Nokia has become a major supporter of the technology, integrating Wi-Fi into almost all of its N-Series and E-Series devices as part of a wid…