If you pick up a mobile phone in the USA, there’s a 50% chance you’ll find an application on it. That’s the finding of the latest survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
In August this year, it found that 38% of US-based adult mobile phone users had downloaded an app - and, when you include people who’d bought phones with pre-loaded apps, that figure rises to 50%.
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Motorola Mobility has announced its results for the third financial quarter of 2011.
Net revenue was up 11% year-on-year to $3.3 billion, while the net loss in the third quarter was $32 million, slightly less than the net loss in Q3 2010.
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Research In Motion has delayed the release of the next version of its BlackBerry PlayBook operating system until next year.
It also says its BlackBerry Messenger app won’t appear in that release, although the ‘BlackBerry Bridge’ smartphone-to-tablet service will continue to offer BBM access.
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RIM has announced BlackBerry BBX during the BlackBerry Developer Conference today.
It’ll be the next generation of BlackBerry platform, combining elements of the existing BlackBerry smartphone platform and the QNX platform used by the BlackBerry PlayBook.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Call me naive or call me cynical - in either case you won’t be the first - but I was a little surprised to see a strong manufacturer presence at Droidcon UK last week. I’d assumed that manufacturers might be inclined to pick a popular operating system and then just start making devices.
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