Following yesterday's post on the 10,000-app milestone for Apple's App Store, the company today came out with its own list of the most downloaded apps of the year. It divided these into categories like top free apps, top paid apps,…
Joining the surge of smartphones with quickly evolving standards is the Nokia N97. It was unveiled today at Nokia World 2008 in Barcelona, as the conference's centerpiece. The top line is that it has 32 Gigs of memory, DVD quality…
148apps.com reports that there have been more than 10,000 iPhone apps released to date. The site tracks application releases and also has some interesting breakdowns of where applications fall into different categories and price points. About a quarter of total…
Last night, I finally got around to downloading the newest iPhone firmware (v2.2) that was released Friday. It includes enhancements to browsing in Safari, Podcast integration, the option to deactivate typing auto correct (thank you!) and Google Street View. The…
We've often pointed out that despite the iPhone excitement throughout the market, the device only makes up 1 percent of the mobile devices out there. This is still true, according to comScore VP of Marketing Solutions Brian Jurutka, who just spoke…
There has been a certain degree of pent-up excitement for Google's new voice search functionality on the iPhone. It comes in the newest version of the already existing Google Mobile App. It was supposed to launch on Friday but was…
BIA Advisory Services held a webinar to discuss the state of local radio, and the steps the industry needs to take to revitalize itself. BIA President and CEO Tom Buono set the stage with some daunting figures that show radio's depressed…
Lately, a portion of iPhone television ads have featured local search applications. The other day we pointed out the UrbanSpoon ad. Now there is an ad for Loopt, the social media app that lets you see where your friends are…
TheFind officially launched its iPhone application today, called "Where to Shop." I thought it had already been announced because it's been out for a few weeks. We were briefed on the product a few months ago, then it came out…
The iPhone is now the top selling cellphone in the U.S., according to a report released today by NPD Group. Though overall mobile phone sales dropped 15 percent to 32 million units, 6.9 million iPhones were sold. By doing so,…
GoodGuide was one of our favorite start-ups launched at the TechCrunch50 show back in September. It was also one of the few companies in the mix with a local search business model (see write-up here). This week, the company took…
Today, The Kelsey Group's second wave of the Mobile Market View consumer survey was released, supporting many of the claims we've been making here about the changing mobile environment. The biggest takeaway was that 18.9 percent of survey respondents (n=512)…
The Kelsey Group has learned that effective Nov. 1, AT&T Advertising & Publishing will become AT&T Advertising Solutions. But there is more to this than a cosmetic name change. AT&T has also reorganized the company and expanded its portfolio to…
AT&T has announced that iPhones will be allowed free Wi-Fi access at its 17,000 nationwide hot spots. This includes Starbucks, airports, hotels and lots of other public spots. This is especially good news for first generation iPhone users who don't…
MapQuest has announced the launch of a mobile site that is optimized for iPhone interfaces. It has a sharp design and is relatively quick to return maps and local search results. It must be made clear, however, that this is…
On the eve of T-Mobile's launch of the G1 -- the first device based on Google's long-awaited mobile OS -- we've seen lots of excitement throughout the blogosphere. The Bloodhound blog has a positive review of the device, based on…
TheFind launched its "Where to Shop" application in the iTunes App Store today. I've been using it a bit this morning and it has held up to the test for some product searches around town (see screen shots below). This…
Eventful, which competes with Zvents for leadership (and affiliates) in the fast changing local event marketplace, has just completed a new $10 million C round lead by Telefonica Capital. Also participating are alumni investors, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Bay…
As we've speculated, one way mobile marketing could begin to take off is Google's possible integration of an option in the AdWords work flow that allows marketers to specifically target searches done on iPhones. The first signs of this are beginning to…
Quite a few notable findings in TMP Directional Marketing second annual Local Search Usage Study, which it unveiled today, among them a slight shift in users' preferred medium for conducting a local business search. Last year's report had print Yellow…
