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Apple will probably launch iRadio at WWDC San Fran
Biggest losers will be Nokia & Microsoft
Later today [June 10th 2013], Apple is set to unveil a whole bunch of new products at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, USA. Almost certainly there will be some revelations about what to expect from a new release of its mobile OS (iOS 7). More importantly, however, the Cupertino based company is expected to unveil details of a new music streaming service dubbed iRadio by the punters. The interesting point is who will suffer most from the introduction of iRadio and GoMo News thinks its Nokia/Microsoft. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Mobile Music, WP8, iOS, nokia
Tagged Genius, iRadio, itunes, Lumia, mix radio, The Echo Nest
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Apple’s App Store marks historic 50 billionth download
Press release
May 16th 2013. Apple has announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps1 from the revolutionary App Store. Customers are downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over two billion apps per month on the App Store. The 50 billionth app was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch which was downloaded by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio USA who received a $10,000 App Store gift card to commemorate this historic milestone. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Apple, Mobile Music, Press Release, iOS
Tagged app store, Brandon Ashmore, Caroline Hu Flexer, Duck Duck Moose, Eddy Cue, Elizabeth Francis, Gilt.com, itunes, Rich Riley, Shazam
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Guest Post: Apple’s iTunes turns 10 years old
by John Oswald, business design lead, with Fjord
Apple reached a milestone on Sunday [April 28th 2013] with its iTunes online service turning ten years old. Today it is so easy to forget how ‘revolutionary’ this fore-runner of the modern app store actually was. iTunes legitimised digital music in an era where MP3s were synonymous with piracy. Continue reading
Vectone casualty in UK’s Maggie Thatcher spat
Rating: Independent ringback tone service from Vectone has gone missing
GoMo News has become absolutely fascinated by the UK’s mobile industry’s complete failure to pick up on the opportunities created by the death of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Emotions are running high here in Blighty [the UK], especially given the fact that tomorrow’s [April 17th 2013] State Funeral for Maggie threatens to create as much civil unrest as the original protests against her ‘Poll tax’. Stepping into the void created by the UK’s mobile content Kings, GoMo News took the trouble to outline how people could create a Maggie ringtone here. Now we’ve discovered that it isn’t possible to have a Maggie related ringback tone. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, Ringback tone
Tagged Ding Dong, itunes, Margaret Thatcher, ringback tone, ringtagz, The Witch is Dead, Vectone
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Guest Post: A new Apple payment system rumours
by Katerina Merzlova, a copywriter with Intellectsoft
The number of rumours about new Apple products continues to grow at an incredible rate. Just recently several sources have become aware of new patents which suggest that Apple is planning to enter the mobile payments sector. Apple is already seriously to reconsidering the reasons why the company has ignored NFC technology in its devices. Since 2010, the company has been gathered patents on various methods of using NFC. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, NFC, mobile payments
Tagged intellectsoft, iphone, itunes, iWallet, Katerina Merzlova, Tom Noyes, US patent
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Digital rewards drive massive CTR hikes says Ifeelgoods
Rating: Campaigns on iAds are generating CTRs as much as 12x higher
Ifeelgoods is claiming that its digital promotions platform is providing substantially increased click-through rates (CTRs) when using mobile as a marketing channel. In particular, it says that mobile digital rewards promotional campaigns on Apple’s iAds (run via its platform) are generating CTRs as much as 12 times greater than standard discount offers. What Ifeelgoods has seen in its iAds campaigns is that users click on promotions offering digital rewards (such as credits) massively more than they click on promotions offering standard discounts (like 20 per cent off). Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Mobile Ad&Mktg, retail
Tagged amazon, digital rewards, Facebook, iads, Ifeelgoods, itunes, Michael Amar
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11% of iOS fans search for apps on loo
Rating: Shocking stats on how users behave on App Store
Research from Surikate/GfK, has just revealed that 11 per cent of iPhone users have confessed to browsing for apps whilst on the loo. This finding doesn’t shock GoMobile News since we have already revealed that smartphone users watch videos in the bathroom, too. The survey was intended to demonstrate just how difficult it is to get an app noticed on Apple’s key iTunes App Store. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Apple, Mobile applications, iOS, iphone, mobile developers
Tagged app store, gfk, iOS, iphone, itunes, Jules Minvielle, Surikate
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4G could aid musicians using the new Pono music format
Rating: 4G gives Pono a sporting chance for music downloads
Amongst music fans, it’s been long known that typical MP3 files lack the kind of audio quality that you’d expect from a good hi-fi system and vinyl records. The catch is that MP3 has established itself as the de facto standard. Well, veteran rocker Neil Young has decided to challenge the status quo (Geddit?) and produced a music playing device which support a new audio format known as ‘Pono’, He’s also reputedly planning to take on the might of Apple’s iTunes music store with his own Pono music download service. Significantly, Young claims to have signed up the three major music labels – namely Universal, Sony and Warner, for the launch of a Pono download service some time in 2013. GoMobile News decided to investigate implications and found that 4G just might save Pono. Continue reading
Posted in 4G, App stores, Everything Everywhere, Mobile Music
Tagged FLAC, itunes, lemonrock, Mac MacLaren, MP3, music formats, Neil Young, Pono
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GoMo discovers neat F1 Timing app on official site
Rating: A great way to keep track of your favourite Formula One driver
Here at GoMobile Towers we’re pretty much a bunch of petrolheads and the Formula One Grand Prix is our special favourite. The snag is that currently here in Blighty (the UK), certain races are only shown live on pay-per-view TV. In our case, BSkyB’s Sky F1 channel. Now the normal way for any Brit to deal with such a situation is to go down the pub (bar) and watch F1 on the big screen. The trouble is that the UK is a nation of footie and rugby fans and there’s a Spain versus Italy soccer match right in the middle of this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix. Trying to sort out this mess, GoMobile News happened to visit Formula One’s mobile friendly web site – http://mobile.formula1.com/ where we noticed the official F1 2012 Timing app. We just had to download it. Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, Featured, Mobile applications, Vodafone, android, iOS
Tagged blackberry app world, F1, Formula One, Gerhard Berger, Google Play, itunes, Maclaren, Soft Pauer, Vodafone
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A long-winded way of transferring contacts from a dead iPhone
Rating: Spin-off from hot tip in the Sunday Times
Recently, GoMobile News reading one of the excellent technical answers to a reader’s question in the UK’s SundayTimes Don’t Panic section, when it struck us that we’d failed to report on our solution for a very similar problem. The best way to describe our answer would be as an “extremely long-winded approach to transfering contacts from a dead iPhone to another iPhone or regular smartphone device.” But this solution does actually work. Nevertheless, both problems stem from how Apple’s iTunes PC software has been storing its data. In a nutshell, though, we took an iPhone with a completely illegible screen and no Home button and managed to transfer the handset’s contacts to a BlackBerry via an old Nokia. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, BlackBerry, Mobile Devices, nokia
Tagged addressbook, BlackBerry, Contacts, iphone, itunes, micro SIM, nokia
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Apple fanboy’s charity e-book enters Top 40
Rating: Proceeds from Rob Shoesmith’s Bin There Done That go to homeless
Famed for spending ten days camped outside an Apple Store in London’s Covent Garden, Rob Shoesmith has set himself an ambitious target of selling a million copies of his e-book. The book is available from Amazon and the Apple iTunes iBooks Store. Shoesmith actually works for an smartphone app developer operating under the name of MEDL Mobile. His idea is to sell enough copies of the book – ‘Bin There Done That’ so that he can sell his house in Coventry [England] and donate the proceeds to a charity for the homeless. The book only costs 99 pence or $1.99. Shoesmith emailed GoMobile News to announce that the book had got into the British Top 40 best selling books on iTunes. It has subsequently dropped to No. 60, so he needs more help from Apple fans everywhere. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Apple, eBook
Tagged amazon, Apple, Bin There Done That, charity, e-book, homeless, itunes, MEDl Mobile, Rob Shoesmith
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Nokia and Sony suffering from Ice Age meltdown says Cass
Rating: Both were innovators next-gerarius
This week [April 2012] two former giants in the consumer electronics business – Sony and Nokia, have made announcements which indicate that all is far from being OK. Lots of people ask themselves the question – why have the might fallen? But Ajay Bhalla, a professor of global innovation management at the Cass business school has bravely tried to provide us with some sort of answers. After all, who would have thought a mere two years back that both Nokia and Sony would lose their respective mantles in the consumer electronics space? The curious thing is that neither company stopped trying to innovate. But somehow both have obviously manged to lose their focus. Continue reading
Smartadserver combat’s Apple’s UDID ban
Rating: Provides a solution with SecureUDID
According to Smart Adserver, Apple has started rejecting some applications making use of the device UDID (Unique Device IDentifier) from the iTunes App Store. This development raised concerns amongst developers, publishers and advertisers. That’s because – until now, UDID has been used on the Smart AdServer network and by most advertising systems for user identification purposes, analytics and in-app tracking. The company has reacted to Apple’s move by introducing a new SDK which incorporates SecureUDID. Smart Adserver advises its customers that live iOS applications do not have to be submitted again. However, it strongly recommends that its customers to use the new SDK version for future application submissions. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Apple, iOS, mobile security
Tagged app store, Apple, iOS, itunes, SecureUDID, Smartadserver, UDID
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Brit woman tries to sell a Bertha Lum via wallpaper
Rating: Strange requests for help of our time
This one takes the biscuit. A British woman, Janet Stuart, is desperate to obtain some publicity for a ‘painting’ by American artist, Bertha Lum, that she has inherited. It seems that while Lum is presently flavour of the month in her home country (USA), over in the UK there is little interest in her work amongst the art auction houses. She’s trawled the Net and there is no sign of any image of the work. So she’s approached GoMobile News with the idea of creating either an app or a wallpaper so she can get the image onto the iTunes App Store. We’re not sure whether or not this ruse will work. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Mobile Content, Mobile applications
Tagged American, artist, Bertha Lum, Hanga Gallery, itunes, Janet Stuart, wallpaper
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UK mortgage comparison site targets Apple F1 petrol heads
Rating: Hurry to win £100 worth of iTunes vouchers
In what we suspect is a desperate bid to promote the fact its MortgagesUK iPhone app is nearly ready, Mortgage Brain has launched its Fantasy F1 competition. Competitors are offered the chance to win iTunes vouchers worth up to £100. It’s actually quite feasible to play this game on your mobile phone as we discovered with our Nokia Lumia 800 W7 Mango phone. GoMobile News would recommend that initially you register using a desktop computer or tablet, though. With the Nokia we also found it handy to register with a Hotmail email address. You’d better get cracking, though, because the deadline to create your own Formula One Fantasy team seems to be today [March 16th 2012] at 5pm GMT. Continue reading
Posted in Games, iOS
Tagged Berkeley Alexander, F1, Fantasy, Formula One, itunes, Mortgage Brain, Vouchers
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