July 23rd, 2009 | by Stan Schroeder
– AdMob’s June 2009 Mobile Metrics report, which you can download here [PDF link] breaks down the iPhone share by country. The United States leads with 50.2%, followed by Germany (7.3%), France (6.8%), United Kingdom (6.4%), and Canada (3.1%). –
This are the first data-lytics of iPhone distribution by country. The iPhone and the App Store have created a ubiquitous international marketing and distribution network that will connect user, developer and merchant seamlessly. More>>
APP Store, Mobile Phones, Social Networking
August 29th, 2009
Android and iPhone users download approximately 10 new apps a month, while iPod touch owners download an average of 18 per month.
More than 90 percent of Android and iPhone OS users browse and search for apps directly on their mobile device instead of their computer
Upgrading from the lite version was the top reason given when users were asked what drives them to purchase a paid app
iPhone and iPod touch users are twice as likely to purchase paid apps than Android users.
Users who regularly download paid apps spend approximately $9 on an average of five paid downloads per month
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APP Store, Mobile Phones
August 28th, 2009
Personal Location Services is the killer app and proof of that statement can be found in the recent release by Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service — The very popular Twitter service is moving from the virtual to the real world connecting everyone using GPS. Found everywhere as a download this writter thinks that Twitter will have some catching-up to do if it is to compete with the Apple iPhone App Store.
Perez writes — Developers very interested at the possibilities this new geolocation functionality will open up for their applications. By the company’s own admission, geotagging in the popular microblogging and social-networking service has been a rudimentary and inexact affair, dependent on a text field that users can leave blank or fill in with anything they like. However, Twitter announced last week that it will soon let users stamp their postings with precise location data, and give external developers access to that data via a new geolocation API (application programming interface.) More >>
APP Store, Global Positioning Systems, Social Networking
August 27th, 2009
My name is Amy, I am a mom of 3 two girls 11 & 13 and my son who is 9. If I could tell you how much I love the iloci2 App. It has changed my life. I don’t let my kids roam the malls, go to City Walk or The Grove. Call me over protective but I’d rather be safe than sorry.
Growing up in L.A., raising girls in L.A. With this simple iPhone app I know where they are at all times. Mostly with me and all their friends, but when I let my 13 year old go to Laser Tag last week with her girlfriend and her older sister (16) and my daughter was iloci2 ing me. It was very cute. As I said in my statement before- It’s the best app for My PEACE OF MIND. I can now get the “I wish I could chip my kid” out of my thinking.
Thanks, Amy J from LA – The most over protective mom
Global Positioning Systems
August 20th, 2009
Washington Post — Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Caring for a loved one with dementia is worrisome, especially if that person is prone to taking flight. Statistics suggest that 60 percent of people with Alzheimer’s disease will get lost at least once, said Andrew Carle, director of George Mason University’s senior housing administration program.
To limit the chaos after an at-risk person walks away on his or her own, two companies have teamed up to produce a shoe embedded with Global Positioning System technology.
Developed by GTX Corp. and Aetrex Worldwide, the shoe is dubbed the Ambulator, and it “tracks the location and movement history of its wearer, relaying the information to a monitoring center through cellular networks,” GTX chief executive Patrick Bertagna wrote in an e-mail. Concerned family members and friends can log in to a Web site or receive alerts that will pinpoint the location of the person wearing the shoe, Bertagna added. More >>
Global Positioning Systems
August 11th, 2009
Where did my children go today after school?
iPhone subscribers realize all that people finder technology has to offer… Other smartphone platforms will offer alternative people finder Apps in the near future… 18 more Android-powered phones, Microsoft’s MyPhone, Blackberry’s App World, and Nokia’s Ovi Store will promote ubiquitous App acess to meet the ever-growing consumer demand… MORE>>>
APP Store
August 9th, 2009
A wide range of medical devices that use GPS or RFID are rapidly gaining acceptance for a host of medical conditions prevalent today. For medical device manufacturers in 2009, the outlook appears equally bright. A study by medical device consulting firm Emergo Group reported positive domestic and international sales growth and continued optimism about prospects for the industry in 2009. More>
Location Based Services
August 6th, 2009
Ubiquitous computing. Any science fiction writer will tell you that we’re already living the future — almost anything dreamed of can be done if you have enough money to do it. But a technology really doesn’t move from fantasy to reality until it’s everywhere, and thanks to the iPhone 3G, computing has become just that. You can’t take a laptop around with you all the time to edit photos or post to your blog, but you can bring the iPhone. It’s the ultimate ultramobile platform, and it’s now cheap enough to be everywhere, and powerful enough that almost any common computing task can be done.
Connectivity. This will only get better, of course, but 3G is a nice step forward, and as Apple showed us, every app on the iPhone can stay in touch and stay connected. And the mere fact that we now have the Internet (not a mobile form of it, the actual Internet) in our pockets at all times has already changed our world. Everyone who owns an iPhone has had “an iPhone moment” already — just the other day, the bartender couldn’t remember how to make a drink my friend wanted to order, so I looked it up and immediately had the recipe. That’s what constant connectivity means — it’s been possible before, but , and applications that stay connected make it even easier.
Location awareness. Until now, consumer GPS has been for cars and geocachers. But no more — every iPhone 3G knows exactly where it is, and any app in the App Store can make use of that information. That opens up all kinds of new ways to use that data, most of which we haven’t even thought of yet. Mobile computing is fun, but mobile computing that already knows where it is makes a lot more possible, and not only will that mean we’ll see amazing implementations on the iPhone (games that keep track of other players in the real world, or apps that can track your daily movement), but we’ll see other mobile platforms push for location awareness as well. MORE>
3G Smart Phones, APP Store
August 5th, 2009
