Archives for “Mobile”

Cell phones are owned by a majority of people in most major countries in the world. 85% of people in the US report owning a cell phone, against 96% in Spain, 89% in Britain, [...]

Almost half of smartphone users in Western Europe access social media via their mobile devices. 45.2% of smartphones users in Western Europe (United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany and Italy) use their mobile devices to [...]

Consumers are increasingly scanning 2D barcodes, including QR codes. 5% of adults with a mobile phone in the United States now scan QR codes with their smartphone. A year ago, only 1% of adults [...]

Webmail continues to be the dominant platform for email use. 44% of emails are read on webmail platforms such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Desktop is still big. Desktop comes after webmail with a [...]

The number of downloads in the Apple App Store and the Android Market has quadrupled over the last 12 months. 2.6 billion mobile applications were downloaded worldwide in October 2011 against 600 billion in [...]

Small Businesses increasingly use the internet to connect with their current or prospective customers. 97% of companies report using e-mail to connect with their customers. Facebook is the second most used internet way of [...]

The dividing line between personal and business use of nomadic devices is blurring. 45% of IT managers report being unaware of all the personal devices used by their staff for business purposes. Many companies [...]

Many Europeans are accessing social media on mobile devices. In september 2011, 55.1 million mobile users in Western Europe (Germany, Spain, France, Italy, United Kingdom) accessed a social network or a blog on their [...]

Google Android ranks as the top and fastest growing smartphone platform worldwide. In one year, Android doubled its market share from 25.3% in the third quarter of 2011 to the current 52.5%. Overall, there [...]