As we mentioned on the blog earlier this week, PointAbout’s Nate Weisz and Doug Peterson each had the opportunity to present at the MoDevDC MeetUp at TeqCorner last week. Nate walked the crowd through an iPhone and iPad app PointAbout’s team worked with a major airline services company to create and debuted in Copenhagen earlier this month at the Passenger Terminal Expo. The app provides users with an airline-agnostic travel tool, complete with digital boarding… Read more »
(via wired) Although the battle for Smartphone OS supremacy is between Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android, and Apple’s iOS, feature phones and Nokia’s Symbian OS-powered phones run the show when it comes to mobile ad click-rates. The mobile-ad service, Smaato, compiled stats for August showing that users of Symbian-powered phones (mostly made by Nokia) were more likely to click on ads, followed by users of lower-end mobile phones (feature or flip-phones) with access to the internet,… Read more »
(via techcrunch) Quantcast, a measurement and web analytics firm, concluded Android is slowly and steadily increasing its share of mobile web consumption. Android has captured a 25% share of total mobile web consumption, while Apple has declined from 67% in May 2009 to 56% in August. Quantcast is forecasting an equal share between iOS and Android in about a year, but only if the current trend stays relevant between the two frontrunners (Google and Apple)…. Read more »
Yesterday, the newest OS for iDevices was released to the world over. Steve Jobs recently reported at WWDC that there are over 100,000,000 iDevices in the marketplace at this point. Now granted, a lot of those are devices that don’t run the iDevice OS or use Apps. But either way, even the big chunk of that 100Million that are iOS devices is a HUGE potential market for any App. Here’s a quick rundown from Mashable… Read more »