09 · 03

Android’s Mobile Web Consumption Share In The US Is Surging, iOS Share Dropping

Media measurement and Web analytics company Quantcast has some interesting numbers on mobile browsing in the United States, and it’s preparing to release some of those statistics, across vendors. Earlier today, the company put up a teaser blog post, showing two graphs, one of them representing the share of mobile Web consumption in the US per mobile OS.

As you can tell, Quantcast concludes Android is storming ahead, now taking up a 25 percent share of total mobile Web consumption in the US. Apple’s iOS, meanwhile, is seeing its share decline, from approximately 67 percent in May 2009 to 56 percent in August 2010.

Provided this trend continues at current rates, Android’s share should be equal to that of iOS in another twelve months, at least according to Quantcast. It’s important to note that both are still growing rapidly in absolute numbers – what we’re seeing is the relative shares shifting.

Research In Motion’s share is roughly 10 percent according to Quantcast, as much as all ‘other’ mobile operating systems combined, but showing no signs of growth whatsoever.

Clearly, the battle for dominance over the mobile Web is being fought by two companies only at this point, and their names are Google and Apple.

In a second graph, Quantcast reports that Android took share from every corner of the market last month. The company adds that it’s the operating system’s best month share gain since November 2009, when it surpassed the 10 percent share mark.

Now, we should point out that another Web measurement company, Net Applications, has just released statistics that suggest iOS dominates the mobile Web far more clearly on a global level.

According to Net Applications, devices that run the iOS operating system (the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad) accounted for 1.1 percent of all hardware on the Internet last month, compared to a mere 0.2 percent share for Android. This suggests a 6:1 ratio in favor of iOS, looking at worldwide statistics.

It also tells us Android is making strides in the United States much faster than in the rest of the world when it comes to browsing the mobile Web, placing Quantcast’s and Net Applications’ numbers side by side.

09 · 03

Logo Design Made Easy for Business Owners

A company logo can make a big difference in today’s competitive online marketplace, making its design one of the most important jobs a business owner will ever entrust to someone. One website has decided that crowdsourcing will yield the best results, and has introduced an intriguing new concept to business logo design.

LogoDesignGuru.com invites entrepreneurs and other business owners to visit the site and fill out a form with the creative and conceptual specifications of a project, which will then go out to a community of thousands of designers who will compete for the job. The project holder sets the amount of “prize money” to be awarded to the winner, $19 and 7.5 percent of which goes to Guru for listing and processing fees. The project holder can upload as many return submissions as they want and have unlimited collaborations with the designers, and Guru offers a money-back guarantee if they do not receive at least 30 logo concepts in the initial exchange.

The average price for business logos has been around $250, and other projects to be awarded in the process have included brochures, Web templates and more. Guru’s growing design community has shown as much enthusiasm for the idea as its customers have thus far since it gives them a market in which to showcase their talents and earn jobs.

09 · 03

Angry Birds Hits Android Market!

Time to get your entire-day-wasting game on!  Angry Birds beta has landed in the market for your dominating pleasure and is as expected, free.  Do I even need to say anything else?  Go play!

Download:

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09 · 03

Download: New Gmail Version 2.2.1

While messing around with a couple of new ROMs for my Incredible last night, I noticed the Gmail app doing some things I had never seen before up in the header.  It now included a reply/reply to all/forward button in the header which made like instantly awesome.  At first I had brushed it off as some new 2.2 Sense feature that HTC was including, but after seeing another post this morning on the same Gmail amazing-ness, I now get it, and have slapped myself 4 times for not realizing it sooner.

So yeah, we have a new version of Gmail, which seriously, is so amazing.  From the shot above, you can see a couple of the new features listed out:

  • New header design makes it easier to reply or star messages.
  • Performance boost for most features.
  • Lots more cool stuff you’ll love.
  • Update:  Apparently this has been included in ROMs for a while now, but now stock users can enjoy the tastiness too.

    Works on every single on of my devices running Froyo including the DI, Droid X and original Droid.

    *Both rooted and non-rooted users enjoy!

    Download:  Gmail.v.2.2.1.apk

    Install as you would any other application.  Download, tap on it when it finishes, hit install, hit open.

    Source:  XDA Forums
    Via:  DroidDog

    09 · 03

    Sprint: Epic 4G one of its best first-day sellers

    Sprint Epic 4G

    Sprint this morning trumpeted the Epic 4G, saying "it became one of Sprint's best-selling devices for first-day sales." Redundancy notwithstanding, no numbers were given, and that's sort of the same vague cheerleading we saw after the launch of the Evo 4G (even with revised remarks). But there's no denying the Epic 4G is a major player -- we thought as much in our complete review -- and we expect to see this one around for a while. [Sprint]

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