Jan 25, 2013 | Mobile
Apple shares dropped 10% overnight on Wednesday, as the firm announced iPhone sales figures missing its previous forecast of 50m units. In one of its most eagerly anticipated earnings updates of recent years, Apple reported no rise in profits and slightly missed...
Jan 24, 2013 | Mobile
Mozilla has published details of the first smartphones to be powered by its Firefox operating system, in a bid to challenge Apple and Google’s Android. Two handsets, codenamed Keon and Peak, will be developed by a small Spanish firm called Geeksphone and will be...
Jan 24, 2013 | Mobile
EE has cut the prices for its ultra-high speed 4G services as rivals operators begin to launch their competing services. Ahead of the spectrum auction this month, EE has introduced a new basic tariff for its 4G service, priced at £31, along with a new...
Jan 23, 2013 | CPG, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Mobile, Online advertising
With the Consumer Electronics Show finshed for another year, Ryan Manchee, Director of Innovation Strategy, DG + MediaMind explores some of the best gadgets on display, and looks at how increasing personalisation could change the future of advertising. As part of DG...
Jan 21, 2013 | Content marketing, E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Amazon has updated its MP3 download app to work on iPhone and iPod Touch devices, letting Apple users buy music from Amazon’s digital store for the first time. Steve Boom, vice president of Amazon Music, says that since the launch of the Cloud Player app for the...
Jan 18, 2013 | Mobile, Online advertising
Global digital ad spending passed the $100-billion mark for the first time in 2012, with the UK leading the way, according to new research. The report, from eMarketer forecasts that mobile ad spend will increase by a further 15.1% in 2013 to $118.4 billion. That will...
Jan 16, 2013 | Mobile, Russia
Odnoklassniki, the social network service from Russian online media giant Mail.Ru Group, has launched a mobile platform for games and apps. The Odnoklassniki platform is aimed at Russian smartphone users and will let developers create games for users to play on...
Jan 15, 2013 | Mobile
Apple has halved orders for iPhone 5 components, suggesting sales have not been as strong as expected, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal, cites “people familiar with the situation,” as saying Apple cut its order for iPhone 5 screens for the...
Jan 15, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Mobile
Nick Holzherr, a runner-up from last year’s Apprentice final has launched an online food app, based on his losing business plan from the BBC show. The app, called Whisk, combines online shopping with home cooking. It scans recipes, creates a shopping list and then...
Jan 15, 2013 | Mobile
As mobile becomes an increasingly important part of marketing, this infographic from Antenna Software focuses on the rise of ‘mobile’ specific job roles, which is particularly timely as 2 out of 5 people are thought to look for a new job in January. Interesting stats...
Jan 14, 2013 | China, Mobile
Apple’s marketing boss has quashed rumours that the firm is planning to produce a budget version of its iPhone. Phil Schiller, head of marketing at Apple has told a Chinese newspaper that “cheap smartphones” will “never be the future of Apple’s products”. The comments...
Jan 11, 2013 | Mobile
Sony has unveiled its latest smartphone, the Xperia Z, as the technology giant looks to rival Apple and Samsung in the smartphone wars. The device, unveiled at technology trade show CES 2013, has a large 5-inch screen and is powered by Android. Key features include a...
Jan 10, 2013 | Mobile
Apple is reportedly developing a cheaper version of its iPhone for launch later this year, as the manufacturer looks to compete with Android the fast growing budget smartphone market. The move would signal a major shift for the company, which has traditionally offered...
Jan 9, 2013 | Facebook marketing, Mobile, Social media
Mobile now represents 20.3% of overall Facebook ad spend, with Apple dominating tablet spend and Android dominating smartphone spend, according to new research. The research comes from an analysis of more than two million Facebook ad clicks and conversions by global...
Jan 9, 2013 | FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Mobile, Social media
Coca-Cola launched its largest digital effort ever this year with its “Move to the Beat” campaign for the Summer Olympics across 100 countries. M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment talks through its year-long campaign for Coca-Cola, designed to bring teens closer...
Jan 8, 2013 | Marketing through gaming, Mobile
Consumers have downloaded more than 40 billion apps from the Apple App Store in just over four years, with almost half of them happening during 2012, according to new figures. The data, released by Apple, indicate it had a particularly strong Christmas period, with...
Jan 8, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Marketing through gaming, Mobile
Digital sales of music, games and films have broken the £1 billion barrier for the first time in the UK, according to new data. The study, from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) indicates that shoppers spent £1.033 billion – an 11.4% rise – on...
Jan 7, 2013 | Facebook marketing, Mobile, Social media
Facebook has added a voice record feature to its Messenger apps for Android and iOS, with plans to introduce full voice calls in the near future. Instead of typing messages or sending photos and smiley faces, users can now record and send quick voice messages. To send...
Dec 21, 2012 | Content marketing, CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing, Marketing through gaming, Mobile, Online advertising, Online video, Regulation, Search engine marketing, Social media, Viral and buyrals
To round off 2012, we bring you our collection of top stories that shaped the digital landscape. It was an amazing year, with the continued speed of change towards a more digitally centric society: the rise and rise of social, the migration to mobile, the rising value...
Dec 21, 2012 | Mobile
There will be two relative strangers to UK mobile users among the firms bidding in next year’s 4G auction. Industry regulator Ofcom unveiled the seven bidders for the auction of bandwidth for 4G mobile broadband services in the UK. The bidders are Everything...
