New figures from technology research company Gartner anticipate that 102 billion applications will be downloaded from mobile app stores this year, up from 64 billion in 2012.
Less than one in ten of those apps will be chargeable to download, according to Gartner’s forecasts.
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A new report from Juniper Research expects mobile phones to be used for money transfers by almost 400 million people worldwide in 2018.
That’s more than two and a half times this year’s total, which is expected to be just under 150 million.
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BlackBerry’s BBM instant messaging service will be available to Android and iPhone users from the weekend.
The free application, which was previously only available on BlackBerry devices, will be launched via Google Play on Saturday and the Apple App Store on Sunday.
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International WiFi specialist iPass Inc. has published a new report that shows mobile workers rate having WiFi as the second most important factor when they visit a hotel.
It was only topped by the need for a comfortable bed.
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The UK government has arranged a series of mobile alert tests to make sure members of the public can receive information in an emergency. It’s running trials in North Yorkshire, Glasgow and Suffolk with EE, O2 and Vodafone.
Two different technologies are being tested: location-based SMS text messaging and cell broadcast messages.
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