Weekly mobile mash-up #10

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Mobile Industry News

Blackberry’s new departure: Research In Motion announced BlackBerry’s new OS in their New York press conference yesterday: “BlackBerry 6 is the outcome of RIM’s ongoing passion to deliver a powerful, simplified and optimized user experience for both touch screen and keyboard fans” says Mike Lazaridis, R.I.M’s CEO BlackBerry 6 - http://bit.ly/cuZE5p
- They also unveiled the “The Best BlackBerry Device Ever” called BlackBerry Torch – http://bit.ly/czFmUu
Europe first for Windows Mobile 7: Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner announced this week that Windows Mobile will be available in Europe in October, followed by the US in November – http://bit.ly/ablZIB
Nokia’s market share: A Canalys’ study shows that Nokia is still leading the smartphone market in 2010 Q2 with 38% of market share but that Android is close to the Finnish manufacturer as Google’s OS based phones shipment rose by 886% since last year – http://bit.ly/d2uggI
- Nokia also said during London’s OVI developer’s event yesterday that they own 37% of the UK market
- A Nielsen report found that in the US, Android outsold the iPhone in the first half of 2010 (28% vs. 21%) – http://bit.ly/d9LeGZ
Google’s [huge] ambition: Eric Schmidt said to the The Wall Street Journal that Google are expecting to earn at least $10 billion per year just without the Android but Schmidt didn’t say how much they are making right now: “If we have a billion people using Android, you think we can’t make money from that?” he told the journalist – http://tinyurl.com/37h87fh
ON 1.4 on Android: for those who missed it last week, we launched ON 1.4 for Android with lots of new features and bug fixes – http://bit.ly/97ZtYz
Market saturation in the US: A Frost & Sullivan report found that the US mobile market was now saturated with a penetration rate reaching 88%. Additionally, the number of mobile subscribers will exceed 355 million in 2014. The report says that Mobile Network Operators should now focus on quality of service instead of trying to get new mobile users – http://bit.ly/c9AqW1

Privacy

100 million Facebook accounts up for download: a 3 GB torrent is currently available online containing personal data of 100 million Facebook users (that’s to say 1/5 of Facebook’s total user base). Ron Bowes collected Facebook data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings to highlight privacy issues – http://bit.ly/9WPJVV
What’s privacy? During last week’s Supernova conference, Jeff Jarvis and Danah Boyd chatted about what privacy means nowadays. Caroline McCarthy published a really interesting summary of the conversation on cNet’s The Social – http://bit.ly/al7Vl1
- No definition of privacy: “We have no definition of privacy [...] We don’t know what we’re talking about, the (members of the) press certainly don’t know what they’re talking about, (and) the spokespeople don’t know what they’re talking about.“
- We are not equal when it comes to privacy: “some suffer more of a risk from their information being made public on the Web, voluntarily or involuntarily, than others do, and are left more vulnerable to the kind of misinterpretation”
UAE’s security issues with BlackBerry: United Arab Emirates announced that they are banning BlackBerry email, web browsing & messaging for judicial, social & security reasons – http://bit.ly/aCyQz8

Mobile statistics and reports

Mobile summer: A Razorfish report concluded that mobile traffic is rising during summer months, and shows no signs of slowing down. A trend confirmed by Ground Truth, research company – http://bit.ly/dsWX7J
Mobile gaming: 90% of mobile users download and play games on their mobiles, says a BuzzCity’s survey. And at least 29% of worldwide m-gamers are women, reaching 49% in the US and Thailand – http://bit.ly/aZYtA7
World cup’s effect on mobile: Opera Mini’s State of the Mobile Web said that in June on mobile, the FIFA site was the most popular across all countries, whilst in the UK the other sites in the top five were skysports.com, goal.com, eurosport.yahoo.com and livescore.com – http://bit.ly/c3A8dD
- The mobile browser also announced that they reached the milestone of hitting a billion page views per day. Congratulations! – http://mash.to/2ibG5
Application downloads in Europe: According to the French newspaper Les Echos, 25% of French people download at least one app per month, followed by Britons (22%) and Dutch (19%) – http://bit.ly/aLfYuT [French article]
Online MBA published this really interesting chart around mobile applications

Via: MBA Online

Mobile video: According to eMarketer, mobile video viewers should double by 2013 with an average annual growth rate of 22.8%. Two weeks ago, ABI Research said that mobile video revenues should reach $2 billion by 2013 – http://bit.ly/biGf6Z
- Another study led by Byte Mobile said that YouTube is the most popular mobile video service so far accounting for 36% of the total video traffic on mobile networks worldwide. The study also found that four of the top ten mobile video services are mostly pornographic sites: Xvideos, YouPorn, PornHub and TNAFlix – http://bit.ly/aB8fRg