Posts Tagged ‘Android’

The lawsuit accuses Google, Flurry, and Mobclix of gathering advertising and app usage metrics and giving that data to mobile advertising companies.

Posted By ] Henry Blodget A few weeks ago, when Comscore’s mobile survey showed that Google’s Android smartphone platform had blown past BlackBerry and iPhone to dominate the US market, Apple fans temporarily panicked. It was the 1990s all over again! But then Apple posted another monster quarter with great iPhone sales, and Apple fans rejoiced (and lambasted anyone [...]

As the web experience evolves, smartphones may soon live up to their name, and every business’ mobile strategy will grow in importance…

Apple Effect May Have Helped Change Game in Mobile Advertising, but Analysts Agree It’s Still Anybody’s Win

Posted By ] Lance Whitney The global smartphone market of 2014 could see Android in second place with a 25 percent share, followed by BlackBerry, Apple, and Windows Mobile, according to IDC’s new “Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.” Though annual growth in the hot smartphone market may slow in another four years, certain key players will [...]

UPDATE: Pizza Hut expects mobile to account for 50 percent of future mobile orders, not current orders Posted By ] Rimma Kats Buoyed by the fact that one out of two orders are via mobile, Pizza Hut is about to get more ambitious with apps. Brian Niccol, chief marketing officer at Pizza Hut, Dallas, said [...]

Posted By CAROLINE GABRIEL. Published: 27 July, 2010 One of the biggest dilemmas facing operators, as they seek to keep their brands foremost in users’ minds despite the sparkle of Android and Apple, is where they can best achieve this. Should they take on Nokia in branding the devices, create their own user interface to rival [...]

Nokia’s hunt for fresh blood in the boardroom is a tacit admission of defeat by the likes of Apple in the smartphone market, but will it require a more wholesale change to be taken seriously by the marketing indsutry?

My Comments on the below: I think the lack of the trusted iTunes model is a big deterrent too.  Being able to seamlessly sync your movies, videos, music and apps through one trusted billing model such as iTunes is what is missing with Googles Android Marketplace. I believe Android would really dominate the smartphone market up [...]

Posted By ] The Guru on July 1, 2010 As of today, I will no longer be updating Symbian-Guru.com, and will be purchasing an Android-powered smartphone – my new Nexus One should arrive tomorrow. I’ve been a Nokia fanboy since 1999, and a Symbian fanboy since I got my Nokia 6620 in summer of 2004. Since then, [...]