We have talked about NFC technology before, which despite being useful is arguably still in its infancy. New research has suggested that mobile contactless payments will grow considerably over the next three years and be worth a staggering £30.4 billion ($50 billion) by 2014. The report was compiled by Juniper Research, they suggest that after the Orange Mobile payments...
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When the Facebook film, The Social Network, came out last year the tagline was ‘you don’t make 500 million friends without making a few enemies’. Well, that statement is well and truly out of date as new research suggests that Facebook now has 700 million users worldwide. In July, 2010 the number was pipped at 500 million which means the site has gained an additional...
Shocking tech usage stats revealed A study, entitled ‘Square eyes’ has discovered that Brits spend an average of 11 hours and 48 minutes every day staring at some kind of screen. When stacked up to the 7.3 hours average time spent sleeping it makes an even more alarming statistic, but why is this so high? The Square eyes research from esure suggests that hypergrowth...
How about this for a stat to make you choke on your early morning cornflakes or late night kebab. In March of this year Apple customers downloaded a staggering 5 million games. Per day! Actually, that’s not quite true. The figures come from market research firms Newzoo and Distimo and they were only tracking 63 million users during this time. So the true total has got...
Android not only has more handsets than Apple’s iOS but now their app store possesses more free apps too according to recent research by Distimo. Apple’s app store currently has 121,845 free games compared to the Android market which has 134,342, so a slim gap which is likely to grow over the coming months according to the research. Distimo says that the real growth...
A recent study by YouGov, named TabletTrack, has uncovered some interesting consequnces tablet pc’s are having on the notebook and laptop market. Over a quarter of those surveyed where iPad owners with 60 of the 4,271 owning the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the remainder where split between people planning to buy a new tablet or seriously considering other new hardware. Tablets...
An interesting new story caught my eye this week, as it showed how a big an influence new technology is having on the way we speak. The scholars who compile and update the Oxford English Dictionary aren’t known for making changes easily, so we can only imagine the scratching of learned heads as they found themselves forced to admit that LOL deserves a placed in the dictionary. The...
Some recent research from money4urmobile.com has suggested that the number of people recycling tablet computers is fifty, yes 50 times higher than the same time last year. The data from January 2010 to March 2010 has been collated and the results speak for themselves, or do they? The information we received explained that the sudden surge in tablets is to blame, the iPad...
A recent study by Dialtosave.co.uk has shown some interesting changes in users requirements when choosing a mobile contract. The study used data collected from February 2011 and compared it to the same time in 2010. A whopping 51% of all customers opted for 300 inclusive minutes per month, half the average of last year where users opted for between 600 and 1000...
A couple of months ago we revealed that Facebook has become a nightly routine for most Brits; therefore it will come as no surprise that a recent study has shown that the world’s largest social networking site is now more popular than television. A study by consumer electronics retailer EXPANSYS has revealed some rather interesting statistics. It has been revealed that...