By: Raymond Hackney When you look at Internet usage some interesting things stand out. The most interesting point to me deals with mobile usage. There are more people with mobile subscriptions than there are people with access to electricity and clean drinking water. Courtesy of Business Insider and Silicon Alley Insider Chart of the Day […]
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WordStream: “Google for Mobile: How Google Makes Money from Mobile”
By: RH WordStream put together this infographic on Google and their mobile strategy. The whole article is worth reading so check it out here The mobile search market is experiencing out-of-control growth. Mobile searches have increased 200% year over year in 2012, and it’s predicted that within the next year, mobile will become the primary […]
Continue ReadingWill the Mobile Internet Takeover the Desktop ?
By: RH I write a lot about the mobile Internet usage and growth because I think its important for both domainers and developers to stay up on mobile trends. On the domainer side, its important to understand how mobile traffic is being treated by parking providers and if the clicks are more or less valuable. […]
Continue ReadingIAB: mobile ad spend up 132% to £181.5m in first half of 2012
By: RH The Internet Advertising Bureau is out with numbers and econsultancy.com broke them down. Mobile advertising grew by 132% to £181.5m in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period last year and now accounts for 7% of all digital ad spend. The figures comes from the latest Internet Advertising Bureau UK […]
Continue ReadingA visual look at what’s new with the iPhone 5
By: RH This week brought the iPhone 5 and Ponto Frio put together a nice visual look for those who want to quickly compare the new 5 to the 4s. Courtesy of Pontofrio
Continue ReadingNFC and Mobile Payment domains will they be a hit or a fad ?
By: RH Interest seems to be heating up in the domain market for NFC and Mobile Payment type domains. NFC stands for Near Field Communication,Wikipedia on the subject: Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing […]
Continue ReadingNomophobia.com may be a more valuable name that you think
By: RH Do you feel off or have separation anxiety if you forget your mobile phone ? Well you are not alone, over the last four years there have been many studies and articles on the condition known as, "Nomophobia" Taken from Wikipedia: Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.[1][2][3] The […]
Continue ReadingMobile Ecommerce Trends
By: RH As mobile usage grows more and more daily its important to keep up with trends in traffic and how people are using their mobile phone. A smaller developer may not have the resources to have a mobile site that runs like a big ecommerce retailer. Not having your ecommerce site properly handle your […]
Continue ReadingA Look at Trends in Mobile Search
By: RH StartApp put together this look at trends in mobile search. Courtesy of Startapp
Continue ReadingThe Rise of Mobile
By: RH The Rise of Mobile Looking at the statistics around the growth of the mobile Internet is probably as important to domainers as new tlds. How will more searches from a mobile phone affect parking revenue ? How will more traffic coming from mobile phones affect your ecommerce site ? Courtesy of Trinity Digital […]
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