Google has just announced a new game service that will be available to anyone regardless of platform. It will essentially allow games developers to start adding in real-time multiplayer, social features, achievements and leaderboards in to their games. Not only will it be available on Android, it’s going cross-platform, and will be available to iOS…
Figures from Netapplications released today show that Android’s share of Web Traffic is up 35% year on year. Android devices now accounts for 26% of all mobile web traffic. Despite a 6.6% decrease in overall share, Apple’s iOS still accounts for 59% of mobile web usage. The figures are interesting because they don’t reflect the market share of these…
According to the Chitika Ad Network, Apple’s iPad controlled a whopping 81.9% of the tablet web traffic in the first quarter of 2013 in the US and Canada. This is up slightly – about 1.4 percent – month-over-month, which marks the first month-on-month increase in iPad web traffic since December of 2012. As far as the reason for this increase, Chitika…
Google looks to be prepping some major revamps to the Chrome Web Store that is found within the desktop Chrome application. According to François Beaufort, who was recently hired by Google to work on open source for Chromium, spotted some code that points towards a possible multi-platform Web Store. Here is what he had to say on the matter: It basically…
Gmail, at least in the web app form, as just received a make over. But this make over looked vaguely familiar…where from? The mobile app, that’s where. Gmail’s mobile application interface reworking that was introduced a short while ago has now found its way to the web application. For those of you that have decided against jumping on the native…
It’s no lie, people love their tablets. It has become the easiest way for people to just relax, say, on their couch perhaps, and surf the web, so it’s no surprise that tablet web traffic has been increasing. A new report, however, is claiming that tablet web traffic could be 30% of the total mobile web traffic by the end of this year. Know what? That…
According to analytics firm Chitika Insights, iOS 6.1 is dominating iOS web traffic. As of February, 83.1% of all the iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches accessing the web are running iOS 6. If you remember, iOS 6 came out only five months ago, so these are some pretty insane numbers. Possibly more impressive, though, is the fact that iOS 6.1 was released…
For the first time in its history, the Android platform has overtaken the iPhone in the world of mobile ad impressions. Opera Media Works released its analysis this morning, and it shows that Android took a 31% share of ad traffic. The iPhone made up 29%. That being said, iPhone ad generated revenue was higher than Android. The Apple handsets created over…
It is no secret that Apple users use the internet more than Android users. The evidence is in graph after graph in survey after survey of web market share. Well, this new survey from Net Applications just reaffirms that already known information. According to the graph, Android web market share has fallen, while iOS’s has increased. This makes…
As is the usual, iOS is still dominating when it comes to mobile web usage verses Android. iOS users have always been known to be the data hogs, and this holds true for the past 6 months according to a chart (seen above) recently released by Chitika. Despite an overabundance of Android phones being released in that amount of time, and only one new…
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