Stats from the study show 57 percent of smartphone users go directly to a brand’s app or website. For most consumers, even if they are searching on their PC, they still have their smartphone in the other hand to call a business or conduct parallel...
The Guardian delivers specialized content to their mobile site, but that content is the same for tablet and smartphone users. In general, smartphone users look for local information while they're on the go.
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. Now playing: Twitter #music – Twitter BlogTwitter teams up with iTunes...
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. So if you're building an app for an iOS, Android, Windows Phone or whatever, it...
The Android software allows users to skin their smartphone with a Facebook overlay that puts social networking front and center. The report of growth for mobile social advertising revenue comes as Facebook begins to roll out its Facebook Home app.
Here are three great bookmarklets to view a site's source code from your smartphone: Smartphone users are very task-oriented, whereas tablet users are very interactive-oriented, so they'll be interested in sites that actually have the gestures and...
Quick stats about local mobile use: percent of mobile search is local.percent of local searches result in purchases.percent of smartphone shoppers use a GPS/mapping app to find a retail location. With more than 1 billion smartphone users around the...
When it comes to global smartphone share, Android leads at 51.2 percent, followed by iOS at 43.5 percent, and Windows at 4.1 percent, Kantar Worldpanel reported. Google search has technical issues listing iTunes app pages – CNET
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. We're not building a phone and we're not building an operating system, but we're...
Doesn't this selection of websites closely correspond with many of the apps on your smartphone or tablet? Now that may require developing some mobile-specific strategies – whether that's building an app or executing a mobile ad campaign – but they...
For its "Mobile Search Moments" report, Google and Nielsen asked 426 consumers to log their mobile searches over two weeks in a diary smartphone app, followed up each mobile search with an email asking for the results of that search, and then...
Google has announced improved search and sharing features for its Chrome browser running on Apple's iOS smartphone and tablet platform. Meanwhile Google also updated its Android Chrome app, improving browser speeds using the V8 JavaScipt engine.
A breakfast cafe wants to reach people nearby searching for coffee or breakfast on a smartphone. And a new reporting construct will align with these options to measure desired actions like calls, app downloads, etc.
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.
Mobile's true opportunities will move beyond the smartphone. This could surpass $1 billion in mobile revenues, driven by sponsored stories and other forms of native advertising it develops, such as app download ads.
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. Facebook has ported its Pages Manager app to the Android operating system.
While half of mobile auto users have made a purchase after interacting with a mobile app or mobile website on either a smartphone or tablet, there are variances in device usages and purchase timing. Also smartphone users in this category are...
Meanwhile Wrapp, an app that users download on their smartphone that lets them give free and paid giftcards to their Facebook friends, has declared November 21 "Social Gifting Wednesday. While Facebook is pushing its own newly-launched ecommerce...
Smartphone searchers also show a more immediate need for a vehicle with 36 percent reporting they would make a purchase within the hour. The study used data taken from more than 1,500 smartphone and tablet users who reported that they had engaged...
App stores have proved to be a safe and easy place for early smartphone users to find things. In this way, search's fate as a mobile ad format is tied closely to the "apps vs.mobile" web debate that faces app developers and publishers.
