Almost one in three who purchased Apple's iPhone 3G in the U.S. from June to August switched from another carrier to join AT&T (NYSE: T), according to a new report from The NPD Group. Moreover, the firm concluded that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) commanded 17 percent of the smartphone market...
Analysts are revising their forecasts downward for 2009 global handset sales, citing lengthening phone replacement cycles despite the prevailing thought that cell phones are the last thing consumers will give up in a tough economy, Reuters reports. The concerns were likely set off by Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which said...
It's been a long-time coming, but the big five carriers in the U.K. have struck a deal with the Internet Advertising Bureau to push mobile advertising into a medium that might actually compete with newspapers and television, The Guardian reports. Carriers are beginning to recognize that they aren't competing...
With Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) first Android phone just days away from being unveiled, the predictions have started flying. In the final three months of the year, Strategy Analytics is estimating that the Google Android operating system will account for 4 percent of all smartphones sold in the U.S. That...
-- Games and entertainment are hottest categories at Handango: Handango released its Yardstick for the first half of the year and reported that games jumped from fourth place to first place in just six months, followed close behind by the entertainment category—a first since the mobile content storefront began...
San Bruno, Calif.-based Global Lost & Found said today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of money to support its company focused on tracking and recovering portable electronics, such as iPhones. The first round of capital was led by by DFJ Frontier. Coincidentally, a survey was also released...
Even though it has lost its sense of cool, Motorola's RAZR is still the best-selling cellphone in the U.S. more than four years after it first hit the scene, Electronista reports. The latest NPD Group data puts the device above the second-place iPhone 3G, followed by the BlackBerry Curve,...
At least 20.8 million U.S. wireless subscribers and 4.8 million European users accessed a search portal in June 2008. Those figures represent an increase of 68 percent in the U.S. and 38 percent in Europe, compared to the year ago period, reported comScore M:Metrics. The U.K. still has the...
Tech stocks took a huge hit today, following the house's failure to pass a bailout plan intended to rescue the nation's financial system and the Dow tumbling 778 points. To give a sense of how it hurt the broader telecom, wireless and communications-related stocks, of the 25-or-so stocks I...
Now that we are weeks into a financial crisis, not only are the predictions starting to surface on how technology, and specifically wireless will be affected, but actions are starting to be taken. In one of the most alarming examples, GigaOm reports today, that Sequoia Capital, is telling its...
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has cut its 2008 iPhone 3G production target by at least 20 percent to 14 million units, according to a new report from Pacific Crest, ZDNet reports. The firm says the cutback from a previous target of 18 million won't impact Apple's bottom line, but may...
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has cut its 2008 iPhone 3G production target by at least 20 percent to 14 million units, according to a new report from Pacific Crest, ZDNet reports. The firm says the cutback from a previous target of 18 million won't impact Apple's bottom line, but may...
At least 70 percent of businesses are not measuring mobile traffic to their sites and it's mostly because they don't know how to track unique visits from mobile devices, according to a study from data measurement firm Omniture, Brand Republic reports. As such, businesses are losing out on money-making...
Worldwide mobile social networking revenues will surge to $7.3 billion in 2013 thanks largely to advertising, according to a new report from Juniper Research. User-generated content ranging from social networking to dating and personal content delivery services is expected to grow about 563 percent from a $1.1 billion market...
Families are increasingly using text messaging to stay in touch, while the short snippets of text are also being to flirt and send love notes, according to two surveys released today by AT&T (NYSE: T). Both reports were completed by Synovate via an online consumer opinion panels with adults...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Research and Markets Adds Report: Bread and Rolls In ChinaC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of Bread & Rolls in China to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets...
INTRODUCTION The concept of fuzzy sets was introduced initially by Zadeh (1) in 1965. Various concepts of fuzzy metric spaces were considered in George and Veeramani (2) and Mihet (3), (4). In this research, at first we shall adopt the usual terminology, notation and conventions of...
INTRODUCTION An interesting and important generalization of the notion of metric space was introduced by Menger under the name of statistical metric space, which is now called probabilistic metric space. Menger made a contribution to resolving the interpretative issue of quantum mechanics. The idea of Menger was to...
NEW YORK -- American consumers went into hiding in September, leaving retailers with dismal sales and an uncertain future well beyond the holiday season as the fallout from the financial meltdown pushes spending even lower. As retailers reported their monthly sales figures Wednesday, even discounters weren't immune...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- InsightExpress, a leading digital marketing research firm, announced today the results of research examining how the economic climate is affecting online advertising campaigns. The data also points to steps that advertisers and agencies can take to ensure that their branded communications continue to impact a more cautious...
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