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Mobile Traffic Figures: February, 2010, US.

Posted by on March 29, 2010 No comments

Android is the big standout of its most recent figures, with Google loyalists now constituting a cool 42 percent of AdMob’s smartphone audience in the US. With the EVO 4G and Galaxy S rapidly approaching, we wouldn’t be surprised by the little green droid stealing away the US share crown, at least until Apple counters with its next slice of magical machinery. Looking at the global stage, Android has also recently skipped ahead of Symbian, with a 24 percent share versus 18 percent for the smartphone leader. Together with BlackBerry OS, Symbian is still the predominant operating system in terms of smartphone sales, but it’s interesting to see both falling behind in the field of web or application usage, which is what this metric seeks to measure.

Ars Technica: iPhone still dominates mobile web ; Android on the way up.
Admob: February 2010 mobile metrics report.

Who Shot AT&T Wireless? Apps did.

Posted by on March 11, 2010 No comments

According to O2, Apps causing data bottlenecks to the netowork not iphones.

Having been forced to issue an apology last autumn when its London network collapsed due to data overload, O2UK claims it is now working closely with its infrastructure suppliers to improve the situation. Same think with AT&T in New York City, right?
However, O2′s CTO, Derek McManus, was keen to stress that it wasn’t Apple’s iPhone that singly caused the network congestion problem, but the apps running on any of the smartphones supported by O2.
McManus said that O2 was planning to re-dimension parts of its network to be process orientated–dealing with the apps process, rather than volume orientated–dealing with the data process. “We have changed some of the ways elements of our network work. There are certain issues with manufacturers and the base stations that need to be smaller and closer to one another.”
The CTO added that O2 was also starting to see the benefits of a £30m network investment made in London before Christmas as part of a Network Performance Improvement Plan which will see an extra £100 million spent in 2010 on infrastructure.

Having been forced to issue an apology last autumn when its London network collapsed due to data overload, O2UK claims it is now working closely with its infrastructure suppliers to improve the situation. However, the company’s CTO, Derek McManus, was keen to stress that it wasn’t Apple’s iPhone that singly caused the network congestion problem, but the apps running on any of the smartphones supported by O2.McManus said that O2 was planning to re-dimension parts of its network to be process orientated–dealing with the apps process, rather than volume orientated–dealing with the data process. “We have changed some of the ways elements of our network work. There are certain issues with manufacturers and the base stations that need to be smaller and closer to one another.”The CTO added that O2 was also starting to see the benefits of a £30m network investment made in London before Christmas as part of a Network Performance Improvement Plan which will see an extra £100 million spent in 2010 on infrastructure.The company caused itself further embarrassment this week when it hastily withdrew a statement on its web site that video calls would be included for the 4G iPhone claiming it was all a big mistake.

Mobile Today: Smartphones causing network data overload.

The Mobile Patent Show…Begins.

Posted by on March 4, 2010 No comments

Apple’s patent theft accusations against HTC got a lot of press this week, as they should!

The NY Times breaks it down today with this handy chart of who’s suing whom. Nokia has been particularly active, along with Kodak. The biggest target? Apple.

Companies sue each other over intellectual property all the time, of course. But this volume of mobile technology patents is unusually high. According to the Times:

Although patent litigation is not new in the technology world, these suits, specifically around mobile, point to the drastically changing mobile landscape. Lawyers I spoke with explained that mobile technology is still in its infancy and these large computing companies are trying to stake their claim to the future of computing.

Companies that know they’re being left in the dust (Nokia, Kodak) are scrambling to assert any claims that they can, while market leaders (Apple) become fat targets.

Where does that leave the us? For now, nowhere. Business as usual. But if things keep escalating, the consequences could range from companies passing legal fees onto the consumer to ITC-imposed product bans. In these kinds of gun fights, it’s rare that anyone wins.

New York Times: An Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits

The Browser world is…upside down!

Posted by on March 4, 2010 No comments

This world map of mobile browser usage is interesting. Some figures, like the iPhone/iPod’s presence in almost every major market of the world, are not surprising. Others are funny.

Why is Nigeria owned by Opera, with 94% of the market share? Or why Blackberry is not appearing in Canada, its home country? Even the Sony PSP is beating them there, while they are the dominant platform in Australia. The world is upside down.

Data/Map: iCrossing.