Alibaba Reboots Its Cloud-based Mobile OS Strategy – AlizilaCompany outlines new plans seven months after Google blocked a smartphone featuring Alibaba's OS software in China. Android PoliceGoogle Glass companion app has some interesting finds.
So when planning to build out the experience, screen size can make quite a difference ‐ compare a little 4-inch smartphone to a 10-inch or even a 7-inch tablet screen. For example, there are so many different manufacturers of Android devices, at so...
The Android software allows users to skin their smartphone with a Facebook overlay that puts social networking front and center. The frequent use of Facebook and Twitter on mobile devices will lead the sector to over $2 billion in revenue by 2017...
Facebook Home, an app and series of core services integrated into select Android devices, will be preloaded on the HTC First, a new smartphone that AT Zuckerberg said. Today we're finally going to talk about that Facebook phone or more accurately...
Rubin couldn't be leaving the role on more of a high, as the Android mobile operating system dwarfs the popularity of iOS with a majority share of the smartphone market. The pace of innovation has never been greater, and Android is the most used...
It's sometimes hard to look at a device and say "That's a tablet," or "That's a smartphone. If you're selling an iOS app and sending people to the app store, Android devices won't see your ad, and vice versa.
As Facebook tries to build its mobile services, it clearly is not relying on any one smartphone operating system to grow its reportedly half a billion mobile users. Curiously Facebook doesn't provide any details about which countries its Android...
The Smartphone Analytics Panel surveyed 3,000 iPhone users and 3,000 Android users to discover specific preferences of mobile users. Smartphone searchers also show a more immediate need for a vehicle with 36 percent reporting they would make a...
Across their client base, Marin Software found that smartphone and tablet devices accounted for 19 percent share of clicks and 14 percent share of spend. This is likely due to the slower speed and less optimal browsing experience on a smartphone...
Whether the plan involves watching Fox movies on connected HDTVs in your living room, or on your tablet or smartphone on the run, Digital HD offers up versatility and convenience," the statement from Fox said.
For groups that saw the ad across all screens -- TV, PC, smartphone and tablet -- the brand recall jumps dramatically to 74%. Currently TrueView ads only work on Android devices but Google has plans to roll this feature out to all mobile devices in...
The percentage of mobile subscribers that own a smartphone has gone from 31 percent in January 2011 to 48 percent in January 2012 (Nielsen 2012) In the 18-34 year old age group, 80 percent of those that bought a phone in the past 3 months bought a...
The company said that the campaign is being launched in what has become a booming market for smartphone handsets in the UK. As the smartphone explosion continues, more consumers are looking to engage with brands by searching for them on their...
This is in keeping with smartphone usage stats and mobile predictions recently released by Google, including: There are 101.3 million smartphone subscribers in the U.S.according to the latest comScore figures for January.
Smartphone] makers should be required to put in place safety measures to ensure third-party applications are not able to violate a user's personal privacy by stealing photographs or data that the user did not consciously decide to make public.
While Android is the leading smartphone operating system, it trails far behind Apple, which sold more than 11 million tablets last quarter alone. As smartphone ownership continues to grow, going mobile and mobile optimization are becoming a...
QR codes are increasingly being used on billboards and various signage as nearly 50 percent of U.S.mobile users have a smartphone. Voice actions on Android and recently Siri on the iPhone have provided users a more direct way of getting answers and...
Smartphone – Mobile devices with full Internet browsers. Tablet – You can target tablets with full browsers, which covers iPad, Android, Playbooks and others. Operating System – Google is rolling out targeting to specific operation systems, such as...
This feature is placed at the top of the SERP and gives basic movie information (including on the actors and plot), movie reviews, the movie poster, a quick link to the trailer, and even the option to buy tickets right from your smartphone.
Nielsen used their compilation of Smartphone Analytics, which pulls from "thousands of consumer panelists" as well as the Nielsen device meters used on smartphone devices, according to their report. Facebook is the most popular app for Android...
