Check-in services and apps aren’t something I am that interested in due to the fact I don’t use them and I don’t even know anyone who does. However, there’s an interesting article at retail touch points that has made me think again.

The article explains how check-in services have evolved to provide for smart (context sensitive) […]

Canalys released their full year 2011 smartphone global sales stats last Friday. An amazing 488 million smartphone were shipped in 2011. While sales by individual companies are interesting, the table most useful for mobile developers is the split by platform…
 
Android now has more than double the market share of iOS. Symbian is dying fast. Windows […]

Strategy Analytics has some latest statistics on global tablet shipments for Q4 2011. Global tablet shipments reached 26.8 million units for that quarter which is an increase of 150% year on year.
 

The iPad saw a contraction of market share that was taken up by Android tablets. While Apple iPads are still more popular, I believe […]

A new article at Mobile Marketing Watch quotes research that validates the marketing power of branded mobile apps. I am not a great fan of these apps because the majority of them are just information and little else. They are boring to create and after first use, boring to use. The information might as well be […]

IBM have a free new report based on a survey of more than 4,000 IT professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries on their opinions on tech trends over the next two years.
The four main areas for growth are likely to be…

Business analytics
Mobile computing 
Cloud computing 
Social business 

The report goes on to say…

"Mobile computing is here to stay, and […]

Interesting stats from Gartner today on worldwide device sales for Q3 2011. Android accounted for 52.5 percent of smartphone sales. Smartphones accounted for 26 percent of all mobile phone sales. Of most interest to developers will be the the relative market shares of the mobile platforms… 

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VisionMobile published a great summary of the mobile ecosystems today in its report "Mobile Platforms: The Clash of Ecosystems". One of the conclusions is that it’s now a two house race with iOS and Android. The question for developers such as myself is how likely is it that another (old or new) platform might take […]