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BYOD will claim over a third of consumer-owned mobile devices by 2018, says new report

A new report from Juniper Research predicts that almost 35% of consumer-owned tablets and smartphones will be used as part of a ‘bring your own device’ scheme at work by 2018.

That’s over a billion devices in total.

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Annual global SMS revenue is expected to fall by £14 billion within five years

Figures from Informa Telecoms & Media show that global annual SMS revenue is expected to fall from $120 billion this year to $96.7 billion by 2018, which is a drop of $23 billion.

This predicted fall is being blamed on the adoption and use of over-the-top (OTT) messaging applications that aren’t controlled by mobile networks.

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Games generate over two-thirds of mobile app revenue, says MEF/Distimo survey

Over 71% of app revenue generated by the Apple App Store and Google Play comes from games, according to a new survey from MEF and Distimo.

Apple leads in terms of revenue: 65% of global app revenue comes from its App Store.

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Android and iOS apps add over 20 million new users to BlackBerry BBM service

Launching the BlackBerry BBM messaging and social networking application for Android and Apple iOS devices has resulted in more than 20 million new users joining the service, pushing the total number of monthly active BBM users to over 80 million people.

In fact, the Android and iPhone apps had more than 10 million downloads in the first 24 hours of their official release.

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What is HTML5 and what does it mean for mobile?

Podcast - 25th October 2013

HTML5 is often described as the shape of things to come; sometimes as the future of the web and sometimes as the nemesis of native mobile applications.

But exactly what is 'HTML 5' - and what does it mean to the mobile industry?

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