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5 Apps every iPhone User Must Have

08/16/2012 Guest Post

Lots of people are getting into the smartphone game and there are thousands of apps to choose from. However, of those thousands, there are a few that every iPhone user simply cannot be without. Below is a list of the 5 Apps that every iPhone user should download if they have the chance. Just be sure to check out this website if you don’t already have a decent enough wireless connection. Some of these apps are rather large. 1. QR Reader for iPhone by TapMedia Ltd – Free I would…

The last week of 2011 saw over 1 billion Apple and Android app downloads

01/05/2012 John Montgallo

In 2011’s last week, the year was brought to a close with a record breaking number of app downloads on both Android and iOS mobile devices. According to a new Flurry study, the number of downloads for mobile devices on those operating systems was over 1.2 billion. Until that last week of 2011, the top week for downloads had seen 857 million apps downloaded. However, in that last week, from Christmas Day to New Year’s Day, there was a growth in the number of downloads by about 60 percent when…

Forrester names some of the top brands for their mobile experiences

09/13/2011 Julie Campbell

Though mobile does allow smartphone and tablet users access to the web, mobile has a great deal more to it than that, as it provides companies and brands with the chance to build next-generation experiences for consumers and add to the potential for convenience. Brands are able to engage their clients and form deep relationships that will continue over the long-term, assuming that they have performed in an innovative and contextual manner that uses the power of the technology to develop the type of experience that the user will find…

Study shows useful apps get results with smartphone users

08/13/201108/13/2011 Jesse Collins

A recent study performed by the Hong Kong Productivity Council showed that among users of apps, 90 percent would accept them when they offered information that they found useful, a discount coupon that they could redeem, or other types of free offers. Furthermore, among 320 smartphone users who participated in a survey between June and July 2011, 80 percent said that they didn’t find pop-up advertising banners to be irritating – these same adds were considered to be a nuisance by users of traditional computers, as they said that content…

IRCE offers iPhone apps basics in 2011 report

06/22/2011 Stephanie Beck

The Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition’s 2011 report demonstrated the increasing importance and benefit of marketing and sales via mobile device, and offered a crash course in the basics of apps for Android and iPhone smartphones. This information was presented at the annual event by Brad Wolansky, the CEO of the Golf Warehouse retailer, which is already receiving approximately 3 percent of their sales through the use of mobile devices – almost all of which were iPads and iPhones. In fact, through The Golf Warehouse m-commerce site, 84 percent of…