May 4th, 2012
News Corporation’s The Daily newspaper app has made the leap from iPad to iPhone, with a cheaper $1.99 monthly subscription. Existing iPad subscribers can get the iPhone edition for free, though....
May 4th, 2012
Carmaker Renault has a new app called Renault TV, released in separate editions for iPhone and iPad. The company is keen to stress that it’s not pure promotion. “We show proper television,...
May 4th, 2012
The popular online virtual worlds have been pretty slow to launch fully-fledged client apps to access them, preferring spin-off apps based on individual features or characters. The latest is Stardoll,...
May 4th, 2012
While we’re on the subject of analyst predictions, here’s something for fun. We decided to dig out some analyst smartphone forecasts from the days before iPhone and Android launched. We found...
May 4th, 2012
It’s the time of year for analyst market forecasts in the mobile industry, with Ovum the latest to publish its predictions. The company expects that in 2017, 1.7bn smartphones will ship globally,...
May 3rd, 2012
Games publisher Electronic Arts has been fielding outraged tweets by the dozen after an in-app message informed players of its Rock Band for iPhone game that it was shutting down – something we reported...
April 22nd, 2012
Coca-Cola has been working with Mark Ronson on a music-focused campaign for this summer’s Olympic Games – Ronson and Coke exec Wendy Clark talked about it on-stage at Midem in January. Now there’s...
April 13th, 2012
More big forecasts for smartphone growth? We’ve got ‘em! Credit Suisse reckons that 687.9m smartphones will be sold globally this year, up 46% year-on-year. The company also predicts that annual...
April 12th, 2012
We’re not predicting that this gadget will change the world, but we do really want one. It’s called Pebble, and is a smart watch designed to connect wirelessly to an iPhone or Android app on...
