Shhh, don’t say the A word. It’s an Apple product and you can’t talk about it if you are a Microsoft worker.
Some Microsoft workers take pains to hide their iPhones. While rank-and-file workers tend to use the iPhone openly around peers, some conceal them within sight of more senior executives. One Microsoft worker said he knows several colleagues who try to disguise their iPhones with cases that make them look more like generic handsets.
I wonder what happens in Nokia.
Opera Mini 5 Beta is now available for Android-based mobile phones.
The new version of Opera offers a big leap in features and functionality, compared to the previous version – Opera Mini 4.
Mobile use of social networks has risen dramatically, according to a new research by comScore.
30.8% of smartphone users accessed social networks via their mobile browser in January 2010 – up 8.3 points from 22.5% one year ago. Access to Facebook via mobile grew 112% in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347% jump.
In January 2010, 25.1 million mobile users accessed Facebook via their mobile browser, up 112% from the previous year. MySpace attracted 11.4 million users.
It’s not surprising that social networks are popular among mobile users: Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president of mobile, explains: “Social media is a natural sweet spot for mobile since mobile devices are at the center of how people communicate with their circle of friends, whether by phone, text, email, or, increasingly, accessing social networking sites via a mobile browser.”
Sooner that we thought? Forbes seems to think so:
Apple has increased its mobile phone market share from 0.3% in 2007 to 2% in 2009, while RIM mobile phone market share increased from 1% to about 3% during the same period. We expect Apple’s market share to overtake that of RIM by 2011, and for Apple and RIM to have 11% and 8% market share, respectively, by the end of Trefis forecast period. We believe sales of the iPhone will eventually outpace BlackBerry sale…
Third-party application developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to easily make it a part of their applications. In addition, Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 is now available, providing users of the Google Mobile operating system with quick and easy photo-editing and sharing capabilities.
“Photoshop.com Mobile is the ‘go-to,’ photo editing application for iPhone and Android devices,” said Doug Mack, vice president and general manager of Digital Imaging and Rich Media Solutions at Adobe. “Unlike iPhone, the Android platform allows us to make the Photoshop.com editor broadly available to developers so they can provide it within any application they are working on. Photoshop functionality can then easily be accessed from an online auction, real estate or social media application so users can quickly fix photos and make them look their best, before being showcased.”
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