Mobile Phone Beats PC among Young Women
With over 80% of women using a wireless device and 17% now using a smartphone, the mobile phone may increasingly be displacing the PC for women, especially in the 12-24 age group,

 

Smart phone maker Palm late Thursday reported quarterly results that blew past analysts' forecasts, helped by what it called strong sales of its new Pre handset.

 

Four out of ten Blackberry and other smartphone users would switch to Apple's iPhone, as their next smartphone purchase, according to a recent survey conducted by Crowd Science.

 

With voice service becoming a commodity, wireless carriers are avidly looking for ways to increase their mobile data revenues.  And the quickest (and perhaps most lucrative) way to do that is by finding compelling data applications that will make consumers upgrade to smartphones, purchase data plans and buy apps

 

T-Mobile USA has announced the upcoming availability its second Android based smartphone, the myTouch 3G. A touch-screen display with virtual keyboard is built into a slim, smooth and lightweight design.

 

AdMob, the mobile advertising platform, today released its May 2009 Mobile Metrics Report. The report examines the distribution and consumer usage of iPhone applications and found that the most popular applications generated the majority of usage by consumers.

 

Palm's App Catalog for its webOS platform has hit one million downloads, according to the mobile analytics and advertising company Medialets. However, the company has said it won't be drawn into an "apps race" with Apple over the number of applications available or the number of downloads.  The 1 million download mark was expected to be reached at some point this week, but the number is still fairly remarkable

 

A pilot program relating to advertising on mobile phones carried out in the Czech Republic by T-Mobile has been completed and confirmed the above-average effectiveness of this kind of communication with customers.

 

Adobe said it will release a beta version of its Flash player for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Palm?s webOS.

 

Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA will launch Motorola-made phones running on Google's Android platform before the end of the year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

 

The mobile application ecosystem has become more fragmented than ever before. The wide range of choices for mobile app developers presents both opportunities and challenges for developers as they try to navigate the multiple operating systems available for development.  To make some sense of all of this, FierceDeveloper asked a range of mobile software executives to provide advice to developers looking to break into the business. 

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