The Apple App Store for iPhone apps has just hit another milestone. There are now over 150,000 applications overall. Games has always been a leader and now thanks to the imminent launch of iPad, books is another category that has been picking up. Here is a list of the number of mobile apps across each [...]

How frequently do iPhone and Android users make use of the various apps they have installed? A recent study by Flurry provides the answers classified by app category. All percentages are approximations iPhone Entertainment : 3 times (per month) Games : 5 times Lifestyle : 3 times News : 8 times Social Networking : 18.5 [...]

Webmaster Pro Web analytics studied the most preferred Office package among more than one million internet users in Germany. Without doubt, Microsoft Office has been the most popular software. However, one striking fact from the study is that close to 17% of the users did not have any Office package installed. Here is the market [...]

The Apple App Store might be the most popular mobile application marketplace currently. However, Android is expected to take the reigns over from Apple in a few years time. Here are the most popular free mobile apps on the Android Marketplace 1. T-Mobile My Account 2. Pandora Radio 3. The Weather Channel 4. Facebook for [...]

The iPhone has no doubt revolutionized the mobile phone industry and the app economy, spurred by the addition of thousands of new mobile apps everyday to the various app stores, has been booming. So, how big is it expected to grow? Gartner recently published their predictions for the near term. Here is the value of [...]

Facebook and iPhone are among the most obvious platforms that marketers could use to promote their third party apps among their target user base. A study by Quattro Wireless (now acquired by Apple) surveyed marketers on their most preferred platform. Here are the results ranked by percent of respondents 1. Facebook : 78.9% 2. iPhone [...]

Augmented reality apps have become pretty popular in the past one year. According to a recent report by Juniper, this is however just the beginning and there is a vast scope for the market to multiply its growth over the next few years. Here are a few stats from their report Mobile AR app downloads [...]

The iPhone has for the first time overtaken Windows Mobile in the number of handsets running its Operating system. Blackberry retains its top spot comfortably in this study conducted by Comscore for the month of October. Here are the top smartphone Operating Systems measured by the absolute number of handsets running them in the United [...]

Apple seems to be the lone player when it comes to users playing games on their smartphones. And this has not changed a bit in the past six months. Six months back, this is how the market share looked iPhone : 50% iPod touch : 43% Android : 2% Now, in November 2009, there has [...]

With the launch of Motorola Droid, the competition between the iPhone and Android has heated up even further. So, how many people are actually using these smartphones for internet consumption, and is the Apple App Store indeed superior to the Android market? Let’s see the number of respondents in a survey who said they used [...]