This week on Crave, we take a look at Tim-e, an iPhone dock that wakes you up in the most annoying ways possible. We salute Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on making space travel cool again and demonstrate Petswitch, which lets you put your face on your cat’s visage. – CNET -
BlackBerry will offer versions of its BBM instant-messaging service on iPhones and Android devices, extending one of its most popular features beyond its own smartphones for the first time. IDC Research Chief Research Officer Crawford Del Prete speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Posted in Business, Companies, Financial Markets, Technology
Tagged Android, BBM, Blackberry, Instant Messaging, iPhone
In today’s “Movers & Shakers,” Bloomberg’s Betty Liu reports that Apple CEO is facing resistance from potential wireless partners around the globe, which could impact iPhone sales. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.”
Posted in Business, Companies, Financial Markets, Stocks, Technology
Apple and Yahoo executives have discussed ways to collaborate more closely on mobile software, according to a person familiar with the matter. Adam Satariano reports on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Tim Stevens, Editor-in-Chief at Endgadget reviews Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 smartphone the morning after it’s unveiling. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
Posted in Business, Companies, Technology
In January, we wrote about the crazy number of devices Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak takes with him on his travels around the world.
Then the Naked Security team counted up how many devices we each carried around every day… well, it was embarrassingly high. Continue reading
Posted in Infographic, Lifestyle, People, Technology
Tagged Android, iPhone, Laptop, Mobile Devices, Technology, Travel
Bloomberg Businessweek senior technology correspondent Sam Grobart reviews the new Samsung Galaxy S4, set to be released later this year as a direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone 5. (Source: Bloomberg)
Posted in Business, Companies, Technology
Former NBA Player Shaquille O’Neal discusses his interest in the tech world. He speaks with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Posted in Business, Companies, Entertainment, Sport, Technology
Tagged Apple, iPhone, Shaq, Shaquille O'Neal, Steve Jobs
Infographic shows that most of iPhone damages occur around user’s home and also the top 5 danger zones.
Source: Visual.ly
Posted in Infographic, Life, Lifestyle, People, Technology
Tagged Danger Zone, Home, iPhone
An infographic by the team at CouponAudit
This infographic shows how devoted smartphone users are, and what attitudes and characteristics do these people posses. In the survey made, 65% of iPhone users can’t live without their phones, 40% would give up coffee instead of iPhone use, 18% can stop bathing every day before they give up their iPhones and 15% would rather give up sex and cannot live a weekend without their iPhones. There are lots of applications offered in smartphones and most of these keep boredom away and make a person occupied. According to Nielsen study who examines the application downloads, the highest percentage that gets most of the downloads is the Games category which is 64%, weather is next which got 60%, social networking has 56%, useful Maps /search has 51%, Music is next with 44%, News has 39%, Entertainment has 34%, Finance has 32% which most business people would choose, Movies and shopping has 24%. This study was made in 2011 Q2 and examined application usage for individuals who had downloaded an application during a 30-day period.
Users would usually spend their time playing games on their smartphones and this is one of the reasons that they have downloaded this the most. There was recorded average time spent by hours per month on different smartphone devices. For Apple iPhone 14.7 hours, Android has 9.3 hours, Windows Phone 7 is up to 4.7 hours and Rim Blackberry has approximately 4.5 hours. Since smartphones are usually expensive, cell phone owners with a household income of $75, 000 or more are 3-4 times more likely to own a Blackberry or iPhone than those in the lower income brackets.
Smartphones can be used in many ways and this infographic shows how users maximize the use of their iPhone in a social setting. One of the studies reveals that 58% of users occasionally or usually do this and 25% of users almost use this but 17% rarely or never use this option. Smartphones also encourage streamlining to their users and once they get an iPhone, many of them will usually get rid of their other devices, 70% of iPod and mp3 players were being unused, 55% of cameras will be replaced by hi-resolution cameras of iPhone and 40% of GPS will be replaced by using iPhone Maps. News and sports are categories that can also be very useful to iPhone users. During the first 2 days of NCAA 2012 basketball tournament, a very overwhelming percentage of 83% was recorded as consumption of smartphone sports download. During the tournament, 20% of sports traffic was from smartphones and tablets. This infographic shows how different types of smartphones were used and chosen by different types of personalities. According to one study, iPhone users claim themselves as slightly more optimistic and easy going than Android users do. Apple has a higher percentage compare to Android users. Apple users see Apple phones to be more useful in the future and is considered advance in technology that is why there are 52% users compare to 28% in Android users. 25% of them don’t get upset easily with the Apple compared to 18% in Android, but both seem to be more user-friendly and optimistic than BlackBerry owners.
This infographic also illustrates what was early cell phone users used to like. Motorola was introduced as the first mobile phone in the market in 1983 and it only cost $3,995 and it was considered strong to have a 2 pounds weight and was the size of a brick. Most smartphone owners lived in more crowded places, for Android, 15% from urban area, 16% from suburban and only 10% from rural areas. iPhone has lesser percentage compare to Android users which is 12% from urban areas, 10% from suburban and only 5% from rural areas. BlackBerry has 11% from urban, 10% from suburban and 7% from rural areas which is slightly higher than iPhone users.
There was also a study that shows how smartphones are actually useful for education. According to a StudyBlue survey of customers, those who use their mobile devices to help them study are almost 3 times more likely to track their academic progress given the applications available, study 40 more minutes each week because they can bring their smartphones along with them anywhere they go and they would likely study during daytime around 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. Smartphones can be purchased at affordable prices from stores like: dinodirect.com, Qvc etc.
Posted in Infographic, Lifestyle, Politics, Technology
Tagged Attitudes, Characteristics, iPhone, Smartphones, Users
Chances are, you didn’t travel very far to pick up the latest iPhone 5 from your local Apple store. But did you know that the smartphone had a whole other life before you even met it?
Mobile Madhouse tracked the worldwide journey an iPhone 5 makes to get all its necessary parts for assembly.
iPhones make seven stops around the globe — traveling approximately 20,096 miles — before heading back to Apple headquarters and getting shipped to you.
Check out the iPhone 5′s entire trip in the infographic, below. What do you think about its lengthy journey? Tell us in the comments.
Source: Mashable.com
Posted in Business, Companies, Infographic, Technology
Are you on Facebook? Check out MyPermissions now. Seriously, just do it. – The Next Web.
Last week during one of my many recent trips to tech conferences all across Europe, namely DLD and Techono.me in Tel Aviv, Israel, I was invited to join Internet entrepreneur Jay Adelson (of Digg, Equinix, Revision3 and SimpleGeo fame) for a visit to the offices of startup incubator lool ventures.
One of the startups in its portfolio is MyPermissions, which we (and lots of others) profiled back in January 2012. We need do to it again, though.
The company is working on a free Web browser plugin and iPhone app that basically give users an instant overview of which applications they’ve granted access to their personal information, and given permission to use it in certain ways, across a variety of social media services.
Why do they need a mobile app for that, you ask? Well, try and get an overview of which apps you’ve linked up to your Twitter account from your iPhone from within Twitter’s official app. Good luck finding it. Meanwhile, MyPermissions’ iOS app surfaces a list in mere seconds.
And for social networking juggernaut Facebook, it does more than simply providing users with an overview. MyPermissions’s Cleaner will take a step further and analyze which applications you’ve connected to your Facebook profile in the past, and tell you which ones are ‘intrusive’.
In one glance, you can see which apps can post in your name, know your location, have access to your message inbox, chats, your media files, and more. You can remove the apps one by one, or add them to a list of ‘Trusted’ apps, but if you don’t have the patience to do that you can also simply remove all of them with one click of the mouse.
Depending on how many apps you’ve given access in the past, the detection part will take but a few minutes. When we were getting a demo of the service at the lool ventures offices, Adelson connected his Facebook account and found a whopping 58 ‘intrusive’ Facebook apps.
He ‘nuked’ them all in one fell swoop just seconds later.
I did the same, and the tool detected *gasp* 278 apps. In my defense, I have to test a lot of services and Facebook apps for my job. Still, 278 apps with access to my personal information. I nuked them all too.
And you should totally do the same.
In the end, the apps you use on a regular basis that still require you to connect to your Facebook account will quickly become apparent to you, and you can simple reconnect them whenever you want and move on.
Run the tool, and tell me in the comments how many apps it detected for your account, if this surprised you, and if you used the ‘nuke’ button.
Also see:
Viva Tel Aviv: Meet the 6 amazing Techono.me startups
Image credit: Justin Tallis for AFP / Getty Images
Source: The Next Web
Posted in Business, Facebook, Social Media, Technology
Tagged Apps, Facebook, iPhone, MyPermissions, New Technology, Personal Information, Privacy
If you’ve ever dropped your iPhone in the toilet, cracked the screen after a kitchen table slip or thrown your phone in the washing machine, you’re part of the 51% of Apple owners who are accident-prone at home.
The most common iPhone mishaps occur in the kitchen, living room, bathroom, driveway and bedroom, according to SquareTrade’s Device Danger Zone Survey.
The tech protection plans provider estimates Americans have spent more than $5.9 billion on broken iPhone damages since Apple’s smartphone debut in 2007. In the last year, a recent study by SquareTrade also shows 30% of iPhones have incurred damage. Accidents happen at a rate 10 times higher than loss or theft.
Here’s a breakdown of how iPhone damages occur at home.
Source: Mashable.com, SquareTrade
October 16, 2012 in Infographic, Life, Lifestyle, People, Technology
Tagged Accidents, Broken, Damage, Home, iPhone, Tech Protection
How Are Apps Shaping the 2012 Election? [INFOGRAPHIC].
Source: Mashable.com, EngineYard.com
If 2008′s presidential race was the social media election, then this year’s is certainly the mobile election.
EngineYard.com created an infographic that breaks down how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far.
SEE ALSO: Presidential Debate Most-Tweeted Event in U.S. Political History
Some notable stats from the graphic: 70% of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70% of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Republican. And, of the approximately $1 billion spent on the election by both parties, around $54 million has been spent on digital advertising — including mobile.
Take a look at the graphic below:
With all the new smartphones announced over the past few months -– including the iPhone 5 -– it should come as no surprise that many people are looking to buy a new smartphone.
AYTM Research, working with Mashable, conducted a detailed market research study of the smartphone market as it stands now at the end of 2012, and created this exclusive infographic looking at what prospective buyers are most interested in, particularly looking at the iPhone market.
Some of its findings:
73% of people looking to buy a smartphone in the next 6 months are already smartphone owners
Current Android owners are 2.4x more likely to switch to an iPhone than vice versa
87% of current iPhone owners plan to buy a new iPhone in the next 6 months
Only 9% of current iPhone owners are considering a switch to Android
Check out all of ATYM’s findings in the infographic. What do you think about the stats?
Source: Mashable.com, ATYM
September 23, 2012 in Business, Companies, Infographic, Technology
Tagged Android, Apple, Buyers, iPhone, market, Smartphones, Switch
