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Gartner Says Mobility will be a Trillion Dollar Business by 2014

Worldwide mobile voice and data revenue will exceed one trillion dollars a year by 2014, according to Gartner, Inc. Mobile will generate revenue from a wide range of additional services such as context, advertising, application and service sales, and so on. Each of these will be a significant business worth several tens of billions of dollars per year.

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Global Smartphone Shipments Surge to 77 Million Units in Q3 2010

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew an impressive 78 percent annually to reach a record 77 million units in the third quarter of 2010. Apple was the star performer, as it overtook RIM and closed the gap on Nokia.

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Nielsen: Most iPad owners downloading premium apps

Sixty-three percent of iPad owners have downloaded premium applications to the tablet device, according to a new consumer survey published by market research firm Nielsen.

Games top all paid iPad download categories, acquired by 62 percent of all premium app consumers--books follow at 54 percent, trailed by music (50 percent), shopping (45 percent) and news (also 45 percent). Nielsen adds that 5 percent of iPad owners download only free apps, and 32 percent have yet to download any applications at all.


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Millennial Media: Android ad revenues outstrip iPhone for first time

Revenues from mobile advertisements running across Android smartphones on the Millennial Media network surpassed iPhone-only revenues for the first time in September 2010, the mobile ad network reports. Taken as a whole, all devices powered by Apple's iOS accounted for 46 percent of Millennial impressions last month, a 10 percent month-over-month increase, with Android at 29 percent (up 26 percent from August)--BlackBerry smartphones follow at 19 percent (up 10 percent month-over-month), trailed by Windows Mobile at 2 percent.

Smartphone impressions increased 7 percent month-over-month to account for 58 percent of total device impressions in September, Millennial states. Feature phones slipped 4 percent month-over-month to 29 percent, and connected devices made up the remaining 13 percent, led by the iPod Touch, iPad, Sony PSP and Sony PS3.

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iPhone Sales Double in Q4 2010

Apple sold 14.1 million iPhones in its fiscal fourth quarter, nearly double the 7.4 million it sold in the year-ago quarter and higher than its previous record of 8.75 million units. Apple also sold 4.19 million iPads during the quarter, higher than the 3.27 million it sold during the tablet's first quarter of availability. The increase in iPad sales missed analysts' estimates of 4.7 million.



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