Social Networking sites access grew three times on mobiles in a year

On March 7, 2010, in News, by rohit
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Use of web browser enabled smartphones are rising everyday. Mobile users are using such phones to access the popular social networking sites on the go. This is one of the good indications that some of the day-to-day online services are extending beyond the PC.
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According to reports in the month of January this year, about 33 percent smartphone users accessed their favourite social networks websites with their mobile browsers. There has been seen a growth of 8 percentage as against last year in the same period, Web metrics firm ComScore confirmed recently.

In just one year the number of mobile phone users browsing Facebook grew by 112% and for other top social networking site Twitter it saw a jump of 347%.

Senior Vice President of mobile at ComScore Mark Donovan said, “Social networking remains one of the most popular and fastest-growing behaviors on both the PC-based Internet and the mobile Web.”

He also added, “Social media is a natural sweet spot for mobile since mobile devices are at the center of how people communicate with their circle of friends, whether by phone, text, email, or, increasingly, accessing social networking sites via a mobile browser.”

The measurement made by ComScore was only of smartphones and other mobile phones use through the handset browsers. This data does not reveal the 6 million phone users using only mobile applications.

According to the data of ComScore, more than 10 percent of mobile users have browser based handsets for connecting to the social network sites. This is an increase of about five percent in a year.

ComScore also revealed that over 25 million Facebook users use mobile browser to access it. It is twice of MySpace users. Since February last year the mobile users of Facebook has exceeded MySpace. Three months before Facebook surpassed MySpace and became the leading social network on internet. In January this year Twitter attracted 4.7 million mobile users.

In 2009 end 17% mobile phone users in United States used smartphones. This was 11% increase in the same period in 2008.

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Leaked details of ‘Pink’ and ‘Turtle’ of Microsoft

On March 7, 2010, in Uncategorized, by rohit
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Much has been talked about these days about the smartphones from Microsoft, The Turtle and Pure. Lately there has been few leaks. It may be, as believed usually, be a method of getting the interests of potential customers more in the products.
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Couple of days before the marketing materials of the handset were disseminated into blogs on internet. Now we have also found the first-ever photographs of The Turtle and Pure along with some of the specs of the two.

The pic of Pure reveals a pretty generic slider that to some extent looks like the Verizon ad. It has touchable squares for music, e-mail and also for the RSS feed. The handset uses Zune-esque typography and not only this, it is also apparently a social networking hub handset featuring all the connections to popular websites such as Twitter and Facebook.

The Pure reminds users of the sleeker version of Tilt of AT&T. The body of The Turtle is just like a blobby Palm Pre.

There has also been nabbed few specs by the Gizmodo for both the phones, which includes:
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The screen of Turtle is 320 by 240 and that of Pure is 480 by 320.
The codenames of both the Turtle and Pure are used in the firmware. However, it do not indicate the names of actual product.
As like Windows 7 and Zune, the OS is based on Windows CE.
Verizon is the carrier.

Earlier, as it was talked about, the Pink of Microsoft, were touted as the killers of iPhones. The same ways as every single release of every single smartphone ever.

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