In a surprise announcement, Apple has started engaging on social media through a newly launch @AppleSupport account.   Welcome to… pic.twitter.com/EZA8eRycDs — Apple Support (@AppleSupport) March 3, 2016 This is surprising due to the fact that Apple has usually been known to be social media averse.  Usually, the company would usually engage in one-on-many broadcast mediums such as […]

Ever since the iPhone 6 released, every subsequent model afterwards has dominated the active installed base of iPhones int eh US market.  Based on the information released by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP),there are roughly 110 million iPhones in the US.  Out of those 110 million, 62 million of them are iPhone 6 or later models. […]

Lately, Apple has been doing what they can to improve the mobile in-app ad experience, and in order to do that, they launched iAd, but it never really made the splash that the company was expecting.  Advertisers weren’t impressed with the sky-high rates, executing ads wasn’t easy, and the company held on tightly to the data. […]

Not too long ago, there were reports that says Apple had roughly 50 percent of all devices activations over the holidays.  There is now a press release from Apple that reports a $20 billion in App-Store earnings in 2015, as well as over $1 billion coming in the two weeks that ended January 3: In the two weeks ending […]

Flurry, a mobile analytics, monetization, and advertising company, released their holiday mobile stats showing that Apple devices captured almost half of all device activations over the 2015 holiday season.  Following Apple is Samsung with approximately 20%, Nokia with 2% and LG with 1.7%.  The difference between Apple and the rest of the competitors is huge. The percentage of […]

Last week, we got a look at the top smartphone apps of 2015 by Nielsen, and surprisingly, or perhaps not, the top ten reflects properties of only three companies – Facebook, Apple and Google. According to Nielsen, smartphone penetration grew to 80 percent in the US at the end of the third quarter.  comScore data shows penetration at about […]

For those who loved using Topsy, the leading Twitter search engine back in the day, there is some sad news, as Apple has quietly shut it down just two years after acquiring the search engine. To help drive the point home that Topsy is done, they announced it on Twitter saying, “We’ve searched our last tweet.” If you decided […]

There are those who will say that, as far as virtual assistants go, Siri is lagging behind other virtual assistants, such as Cortana and Google Now.  But it seems that, according to a hands-on user study conducted y Expert Exchange, this isn’t the case.   Due to contrary belief, Siri isn’t lagging behind, but rather, is in […]

It was announced today that the privacy search engine DuckDuckGo announced it is the default search engine in Adblock Browser for both iOS and Android devices. Not only is DuckDuckGo the default for the Adblock Browser, the company is saying that they’re working with the Electronic Frontiier Foundation (EFF) on a new “Do Not Track” standard. […]

There has been a recent upgrade to Baidu’s mobile virtual assistant that adds voice-enable local transitions, which is powered by an AI, known as “Duer.”  This translates as “Du Secretary.” A possible translation of of “du” is “to study, to learn.”  As Greg Sterling said himself, when you pronounce the word, it sounds like the English word, “do,” which […]